Boycott Archive

  • CrunchDeal: Left 4 Dead 2 for $20 on Steam

    CrunchDeal: Left 4 Dead 2 for $20 on Steam

    Posted on April 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Curse you Steam store, and all your weekend deals. I'm weak before your offers of gaming goodness, and my list of games in the new Steam client grows ever larger. It's particularly bad when you offer games like Left 4 Dead 2 for $20. Don't tell my wife, I just clicked on that buy button.

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  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 soars past $1 billion in retail sales

    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 soars past $1 billion in retail sales

    Posted on January 13, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember back a couple months? The biggest news on Earth was the Infinity Ward and Activision Blizzard screwed up MW2 and the game was going to fall into a bucket of fail. There were boycotts, petitions, and general chaos concerning the shooter. Then it launched. Then people started playing it in droves. Then people shut-up and within two months the title surpassed $1,000,000,000 in retail sales.

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  • And the Left 4 Dead 2 boycott, how’s that going?

    And the Left 4 Dead 2 boycott, how’s that going?

    Posted on November 17, 2009 | No Comments
    It turned out that a lot of those so-called Modern Warfare 2 protesters were talking jive, as they played the game late into the night, alone with their hypocrisy. (It's overdramatic Tuesday, by the way.) How did the Left 4 Dead II protesters do?

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  • iPhone no longer exclusive to O2 in the UK, heads to Orange ‘later this year’

    iPhone no longer exclusive to O2 in the UK, heads to Orange ‘later this year’

    Posted on September 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Some pretty big iPhone news to share with y'all this morning: the iPhone will no longer be exclusive to O2 over in the UK, becoming available on Orange “later this year.” So for all of you in the U.S. who one day hope to see the iPhone on a different wireless provider (like, say, Verizon Wireless, differences between CDMA and GSM notwithstanding), well, you now have a precedent.

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  • Christian Audigier’s reign of terror extends to USB drives

    Christian Audigier’s reign of terror extends to USB drives

    Posted on August 26, 2009 | No Comments
    Let’s clear the air real quick. Ed Hardy is one of the godfathers of modern tattooing and he learned from the best, Sailor Jerry. Christian Audigier, on the other hand, is a big douche. He whored out Kenny Howard aka Von Dutch (even though the guy was a drunk and racist) and now he’s done the same with Ed Hardy over the last few years.

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