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New Study Reveals the Social Graces of Social Gaming for Women

PR Newswire: A new study from Q Interactive and Engage! Expo (host of the Virtual Goods Conference) reveals insight into the psychology of social media gaming women, the largest demographic of social media users. The study of over 700 women, about 54 percent of which play daily and 30 percent weekly, investigates a range of viewpoints around salient social media gaming topics.

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Italy's Crackdown on Counterfeit Retro Consoles Highlights Industry Failures in Game Preservation

In a major crackdown, Italy's financial police have dismantled a ring trafficking counterfeit vintage video game consoles, highlighting a severe issue within the gaming industry. The operation underscores the industry's failure to preserve classic games, driving gamers toward illegal alternatives as legitimate options remain scarce and prohibitively expensive.

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Knightofelemia4d ago

Even if they do crack down all a person needs is an Everdrive and a regular old school machine. Or modify a disc based console that has a dead laser to boot off an SD card. Some of those illegal devices look neat and some of them are just plain crap.

XiNatsuDragnel4d ago

This won't stop it unless you have a great service.

Inverno3d ago

What a stupid thing to be wasting time, money and effort. Aren't these guys literally drowning right now? Maybe y'all should focus more on that instead trying to stop people from playing old games no longer being sold.

Inverno3d ago

Pretty sure I've read and seen parts of Italy experiences/ing pretty bad floodings. Id argue that's more important than trying to prevent the sale of emulation devices.

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Companies are Misleading Consumers with Micropayments, Says European Consumer Organisation

European Consumer Organisation claims companies are misleading consumers with micropayments.

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PS5 Pro pre-orders might be limited as an anti-scalping measure, analysts suggest

PS5 Pro pre-orders might be limited as a response to anti-scalping measures, industry analysts are suggesting.

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andy854d ago

People will just order from different retailers. Until you have the sense to need a PS account with a confirmed address to order. It'll always happen

thorstein4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

I grabbed the Astrobot controller from Playstation a week later because they sold out because of scalpers then PS just dropped more on their store.

I can see a similar strategy here.

fr0sty4d ago

"People will just order from different retailers." not when pre-orders are limited to PlayStation's direct store only.

jznrpg4d ago

Only for two weeks then they will go live in the first week of Oct for other retailers. It doesn’t release until Nov7th

andy854d ago

They aren't though. The first run yes

MrGameAndWatch4d ago

If players aren't interested, scalpers won't be either..

Tacoboto4d ago

There was scalping even for the Series S at launch...

arm711744d ago

I hope I can pick it up day one

jznrpg4d ago

I believe you will be able to. Stay in the queue for PS direct you should be able to get one. They will probably do some rounds each day. If you don’t get one there early Oct Amazon Best Buy etc will have preorders open.

jznrpg4d ago

They will have rounds like usual. I got a launch PS5 day one during a chip shortage I anticipate it will be a little easier to get the Pro

Relientk774d ago

If they are limited that should increase demand.

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