The pre-used game codes bought from players will be sold by GMG at a lower price – as I said, customers are not going to send GMG the actual game data or be asked to delete their copy,  just the “game code”, which I guess would be the license key or something. Here’s the (Ugly) Green Man Jackhammering the company’s website to completion.

That’s all well and good for consumers, but the real magic here is GMG’s offer to game publishers: Luzio claims that their company will give a portion of a game’s sales to the respective publisher, a crucial element that is missing in physical used-games reselling.

All in all, it seems like a promising scheme to me, although I’m curious as to how they’ll handle supply and demand. Will a game’s code become cheaper as more and more of the games’ codes are re-sold? Will this give rise to a new breed of hardcore gamers who rush through their games just so they can be the first to sell their game’s license (and thus ensure a high buy back price)? Will license keys for all games become standardized? Will Green Man Gaming be the Steam of used games? The GameStop of the Internet? The *insert prime example of another field* of the *insert field*?  Why is the Green Man so ugly? Are you still reading? Why?

[via MCV & Joystiq]

The GameStop bundle: when it’s important to buy a water gun and a gaming console at the same time!

Some of the retailer’s bundles make a little more sense, and by some, I mean one: the Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games bundle includes a console and the aforementioned game. It’s a bundle; it’s made up of things that go together.

The Take a Bath with a Buddy bundle? Includes a Wii and a rubber duck. Let’s just hope no one thinks that the buddy who goes into the bath is the Wii. Somebody’s gonna get sued.

[via Destructoid via Joystiq]