From now on during the weekdays, I plan to run through the morning’s gaming news from various websites (joystiq.com, n4g.com, etc.) since its a bit of a hassle reading through all the lame news and worthless posts.

Here goes nothing:

Joystiq.com
Playstation 3 Street Fighter II HD priced at $14.99

What is Capcom smoking? Don’t get me wrong I’m a fan of Capcom and Street Fighter, but with SFIV out in just a few months how can they possibly think that 15 bucks is the right price for this? I think that I’ll be passing on this one.

Gamestop assimilates $1.7 billion in Q3 sales

Dont even get me started on Gamestop, I don’t think I’ve ever had a decent shopping experience which is why I don’t buy my games there…like…ever! You plunk down your $62.23 for what you think is a brand new shiny game, but instead the clerk says “I’ll be right back” preceeded by the slow death march to the store’s shelves to grab a dusty cover with about 4-5 dirty price stickers on them…lets not even talk about how your game is worth $13 bucks but then they try to sell it for $55 to the next gamer. NOT COOL!

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