Three-dollar horse armor, $15 monthly fees, $600 consoles, and $60 game titles: this was the decade that video games became expensive.

We’ve already told you why every gamer needs Gamefly, and now there is even more reason to subscribe.  The top online rental store for video games is now selling new titles.  In addition to selling new games, they are also selling peripherals such as guitars, drum sets, and DJ Hero.  The games are full-priced, unlike titles you can keep when you rent them from their service, which usually include a significant discount.

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Activision seems to be on quite a roll with pissing off their user base.  Their newest declaration may top the heap: Activision wants to start charging an online fee to play their Call of Duty games, similar to World of Warcraft.
Speaking at BMO Capital Market Conference, the CFO of Activision Blizzard, Thomas Tippl, said, “You should expect us to test and ultimately launch additional online monetization models of some of some of our biggest franchises like Call of Duty.”
While he admits it may be difficult to replicate …

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Print may be a dying breed, but there are still quite a few quality gaming magazines to be read. Many of the authors here at LifeTwitch subscribe to one or more, so we take a look at how these magazines fare against each other. Here is our top five:

Gamefly is the Netflix of video games. It allows you to rent video games for an unlimited amount of time for a monthly fee. You can keep a game for as long as you want, but you can only have a certain amount of games out at any given time, depending on the subscription plan you choose. The price is currently $15.95 per month for a one-game-out plan, although there is a free trial and a lower introductory rate at $8.95. Different plans are also available. Here is why it is worth it to every gamer to have Gamefly.

Yes, that number is right. The PS3 sold 14,494.52% more consoles than it did the prior week in Japan. It sold a whopping 150,743 consoles, enough to easily take first place on the charts.