Join Nick, Brian, and Josh as they start a brand new series in ARK: Survival Evolved for Xbox One! In the first episode, they learn the ropes and tame their first dino!
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In the latest episode of the Co-Op Critics podcast, Brian and Nick discuss Amazon’s new game discount program and our game of the month, Fallout 4.
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NOTE: The game of the month for February on Co-Op Critics will be ARK: Survival Evolved. We’ll be featuring videos all month and a podcast at the end of February to discuss our thoughts on the game.
In this quick redstone tutorial, I show you how to make a simple 3×3 slime block door. I use it to cover my nether portal. I’m currently playing on Xbox One in TU31, but this should work for PC, Xbox 360, PS3, and PS4.
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Back in March of 2015, I wrote about switching from GameStop to Best Buy for new game purchases, because of Best Buy’s newly-discounted Gamer Rewards program. The big hook for Best Buy was offering a 20% discount on new games, something that GameStop does not do.
A little over a week ago, Amazon gut punched GameStop again (and kicked Best Buy’s legs out from under it) when they announced that Prime Subscribers will now get 20% off of pre-orders and newly-released games to go along with their already free two-day shipping. The term “newly-released” in this case means up to two weeks after the initial release date.
So, how does this stack up to GameStop and Best Buy? Well, as I wrote about before, GameStop still gives you a print magazine subscription for your $15 a year, and Best Buy offers reward certificates that can be used for anything they sell. Both also give you extra value for used game trade-ins.
Looking at Amazon’s trade-in program, it looks like they actually give you slightly more value than GameStop, although GameStop gives more if you are using the credit to buy more games. For example, Amazon will give you $20.54 for Star Wars Battlefront, while GameStop would give you $19.66 cash, or $24.20 if you used it toward another game. Add to that the discount you get on used games, and GameStop can provide more value for those trading in games to buy more games.
But really, the main questions you should be asking yourself are if you buy new games and you are already a Prime Subscriber. Because if the answer to those two questions is yes, this is a no-brainier.
I am a Prime subscriber and for me, this move by Amazon actually hurts Best Buy more. I already had stopped buying new games at GameStop. Now I can get the 20% discount and free two-day shipping on my new games. So, Amazon will become the place for me to buy new, and GameStop will continue to be my used game option.
At some point, I think GameStop is going to have to bite the bullet and offer discounts on new releases. They’ve tried to diversify, getting into retro games and pushing more geek culture merchandise, but I don’t think that will be the solution in the long term.
In our first episode in 2016, we show you how to build a simple Slime Farm! That way we can start building things using the new Slime Blocks added in TU31.
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Fallout 4 is our game of January 2016, and in this first video of our series, Brian joins up with the Minutemen faction after completing some quests.
We’ll be posting videos all month over on the Co-Op Critics YouTube Page, so head on over and check them out. At the end of the month, we’ll be wrapping up our Fallout 4 coverage with an episode of the Co-Op Critics podcast. Stay tuned!
In the latest episode of the Co-Op Critics podcast, Brian and Nick recap their favorite games of the year, and discuss our game of the month for December–Star Wars: Battlefront.
You can listen to the episode right here in the player above, or check us out on iTunes and Spreaker. You can also listen to back episodes on our podcast page.
NOTE: The game of the month for January on Co-Op Critics will be Fallout 4. We’ll be featuring videos all month and a podcast at the end of January to discuss our thoughts on the game.
We are very happy to announce that the Co-Op Critics podcast is now on both Spreaker and iTunes! All of our episodes are up on both platforms for download and streaming. You can also listen to all of the episodes on our Podcast page.
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Every month here at Co-Op Critics we choose a game to highlight for discussion. Over the course of the month we post gameplay videos on the YouTube page, and we cap off the month with a podcast discussion of that game.READ MORE
My game of the year was SOMA (you can read why here), and I’ve been playing through it for a let’s play series over the past couple months. This particular episode takes place toward the latter third of the game, as the main character Simon is trying to find a way out of Theta Site so he can get to Omicrom and find a dive suit that will withstand the ocean depths he will have to travel to in order to retrieve the ARK.
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