Gamestop Executive Goons pay Level Up Video Games a visit!

On Thursday, August 19^th, Level Up Video Games, an independent video game store in Tucson, AZ, was honored with a visit from none other than the GameStop Head of Visual Merchandising & Store Development, along with one of his Regional Managers. Mind you, this has not been the first time we have had a visit from the GameStop GoonSquad, but this time they were talking to a sales associate, not the manager or owner. The owner and manager were not on duty at the time to answer their questions, so we humbly offer the following letter of apology.

To The GameStop GoonSquad,

            We here at Level Up Video Games would like to offer our most sincere and deepest apologies. You see, when one of your Regional Managers came into our store a few days ago, along with the Head of Visual Merchandising and Store Development, we were woefully unprepared for the honor of that visit. Having no advance notice of such a glorious event, not only was our Owner, or even our Store Manager, not present, we had only a single employee on staff at that time to serve you. We had no decorations up, no cake, and sadly no balloons.

            However, this did not deter your two employees from asking penetrating questions, taking notes on our store layout, infiltrating our backroom, and taking pictures of everything in sight. We were overjoyed that the absense of someone more suited to talking to them did not deter them from their mission, and we are hopeful that your employees learned something of worth from our store.  Their forgetting to leave a business card, any contact information, or message for the owner must have been our own fault.

            As heinous as our lack of hospitality and preparedness was, we are afraid we have one more thing to apologize for: there is one thing that your employees could not have learned from our store, and that is the atmosphere of our store, our spirit of customer service, and our true love of both video games and our customers. These are things that can never be copied.

            We humbly request that next time we might be given advance notice, so that we may be more prepared for your future visits. Apparently the pony ride place says that the animals must be fed before giving rides, the cake shop requires at least four hours notice, and as much as we try, our record for blowing up balloons is only five a minute.

Puckishly Yours,

Level Up Video Games

The wrap on the New Xbox 360 4GB Core System from Microsoft

 

Ok guys and gals, 

Here is the wrap up on the new 360 4GB system. The system retails for $199.99 and is available for purchase now. This has the same slim design as the recent 250GB but rather than the piano finish it has a matte finish. Still has built-in WiFi, 5 USB ports, Kinect power support on board and same chip set. The difference is obviously the storage space. This core system has 16 times its predecessor's storage and is capable of supporting another two flash drives up to 16 gigabyte's each, for a total of 36gigs minus the system software that gives you a little over 33gigs of storage space for your game saves, demos and DLC. For under 200.00 bucks that's a pretty tempting deal. 

The forums are discussing the lack of storage for this new system and the inability to play your original XBOX games kind of sucks. But the word is out that the 250gb external drive from Microsoft is retailing at $129.99 that will connect to the bottom expansion port under the system case. But if your savvy we have heard about another solution. That's right folks Level Up Video Games will be your answer guys. It appears that there have been some reports of the ability to install the old HDD's from Microsoft on your system. The only catch your going to need some elbow grease and a couple of torque screw drivers to do this. Basically open the HDD case from your old drive and pull out the drive and drop it into your new system. From the reports we've read this appears to be working. Now you will have backward compatibility solved and if you p/u a cheap 20gb HDD or if you already have an old system drive than there ya go! We will be doing some testing really soon on this and let you know our results, but from my experience it makes sense that this will work. 

Stay Tuned will Keep you Posted!

Announced: Fable 3 Limited Edition Xbox 360 Controller

Fable 3 crowns a limited edition controller

by Richard Mitchell  on Aug 13th 2010 3:50PM

Limited edition controllers are all the rage these days. Halo: Reach has its own controller (and console!), so it only makes sense that Microsoft's other 2010 darling would get the same treatment. While it might appear that theFable 3 controller is simply a normal wireless Xbox 360 controller dipped in delicious caramel, Kotaku reports that the design was actually crafted to resemble the Crown of Albion (you know the one). Priced at $59.99, the controller heads to stores October 5, well ahead of Fable 3's October 26 launch, and includes a token to download an exclusive tattoo for the game

Round 4 is on, Super Street Fighter IV!!

This is the godfather of Fighters. The tournament will be held on AUGUST 5TH, 2010 FROM 6:30PM TO 8:30PM as usual and as always its FREE! We are holding this one in honor of the announcement of of the new unbelievably cool TEKKEN X STREETFIGHTER that was announced at Comicon San Diego. This game is going to be awesome pitting two of the greatest all-time rivalries in the same ring. Oh I cant wait..next show down Tekken 6 anyone??