GameStop has added Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet their already packed retail stores. It's available now for $199.99 in all 4,400 U.S. GameStop stores. The HD and 7" versions of the tablet are also available in selected stores, priced at $299 and $159 respectively.
If you're thinking about gifting one this holiday, know that a promotion has customers leaving with a bonus $25 Amazon.com gift card. This offer is good through January 31, 2013.
The Kindle Fire is a fine gaming device. I love that I'll be able to trade in crap games from my collection to get one.
7:00 PM on 01.18.2013 // Patrick HancockDota 2 didn't get a new hero yesterday, but it did get a new game mode to hold us over while we wait for everyone's most anticipated hero, Tuskarr. Least Played Mode eliminates your 20 most-played heroes from the pool an... more 10:00 PM on 12.19.2012 // Patrick Hancock
If you were playing Dota 2 around Halloween, you likely played some of the Diretide event and received a Greevil egg. Until now, those Greevils have simply been couriers to use in-game. Today, however, they become much ... more 12:30 PM on 12.10.2012 // Jordan DevoreSpeaking to Kotaku at the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards, Valve co-founder and managing director Gabe Newell says the company was "working on getting Dota 2 running on some tablets." Wait, what? Given the nature of the game, wo... more 2:00 PM on 11.26.2012 // Chris CarterIt looks like Steam, most likely as a result of the Autumn Sale, has broken its previous record of five million concurrent users, and pushed 6,046,104 over the weekend. Of course, new additions like big picture mode, Linux su... more 8:00 PM on 11.08.2012 // Jordan DevoreValve has reached an agreement with Nexon to publish Dota 2 in both Japan and Korea, a move that seemed inevitable considering how seriously the company has been taking eSports with the title. No real specifics were given oth... more 9:00 PM on 10.04.2012 // Patrick HancockI hope all you Dota fans out there appreciated that title pun. Been working on it for days!
Dota 2 updates frequently, but today will be one of the biggest updates to the game in a long time. The Warcraft III v... more 10:00 PM on 10.01.2012 // Patrick HancockGameBattles, which allows users and teams to sign up and compete in tournaments, is adding Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, and League of Legends to its fall lineup of online ladder tournamen... more 3:45 PM on 08.31.2012 // Patrick HancockTune in here or via the Dota 2 client!
For those not in the know, The International is pretty much the Super Bowl of the Dota 2 pro scene. There's a bajillion million dollars at stake for the first place team, which... more 10:00 PM on 05.31.2012 // Patrick HancockA new update just hit Dota 2, and first things first: you do not, and will not, have to pay to unlock any hero in the newly confirmed to be free-to-play Dota 2. If you want, however, you can spend your real-world money in ord... more 7:00 AM on 05.11.2012 // Patrick HancockOne million dollars was given away last year in Germany to Na'Vi, a Dota 2 team from the Ukraine, for winning the Dota 2 International tournament. This year, at PAX Prime (August 31-September 2) in Seattle, yet another c... more
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