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Glitch in the iTunes Store Allows Free Purchases

My iTunes account, containing about four dollars of store credit, is hooked up to an empty Visa gift card. After spending all but about twenty cents of my store credit, I decided I might as well try to buy something else, expecting for iTunes to give me an error. To my surprise, it didn’t, and allowed me to purchase the song. Over the next 24 hours I spent around $30 on iTunes without having to pay for anything. This morning, after attempting to purchase an app, it gave me a message telling me that there was an error in my billing info.

Sending Me To My Purchase History

It then led me to a page with my purchase history, telling me that I owe almost thirty dollars.

I Owe iTunes $30

It then took me to a page where I was to correct my billing info and let it charge me the money I owe.

I canceled out of this and noticed that I had some updates available for my apps. I proceeded to attempt to download these free updates, but it told me I had an error with my billing information and I needed to correct it before I could proceed. My account is now essentially frozen and I am not able to update any apps or download any of my TV Show subscriptions.

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Gamestop Now Selling PSN Giftcards

I was browsing the gamestop site recently when I noticed that they are now selling a 20 dollar PSN giftcard.

Now Available at Your Local Gamestop

Until now these had only been available at more obscure stores including Blockbuster and other non-gaming oriented stores. You can find these on the Gamestop website under Playststion accessories. I picked up four of these suckers just today.

Purchase Car Upgrades with Real Life Cash in Need for Speed Undercover

I was watching the new Need for Speed Undercover trailer on Gametrailers today when something made me stop and rewind the video. The man was showing off the car customization and upgrading system when he tried to purchase an upgrade. Upon doing so a confirmation screen came up that looked like this:

You can use Microsoft Points!

If this is to be believed then you can use your Microsoft Points in order to purchase car upgrades! I’m not exactly sure what the PS3 version is going to do and I’m pretty sure this feature hasn’t been officially announced yet but I thought you guys might want to know about it. Leave your opinions on this in the comments below.

You can find the origonal video here: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/42521.html

I took the screen at “2:17″.

New Xbox 360 Prices are Official

We’ve all been hearing about them for weeks but they are now official. They go as follows:

 

Arcade: 199

Pro (60 GB): 299

Elite: 399

BioShock for PS3… and an animated TV Show?

   I don’t know how many of you guys know this but my gaming platform of choice is the Playstation 3. Rumors have been circulating for a long time about BioShock coming to the PS3. Before now though there was no evidence to back this up. Just recently though the Bioshock team put out a press release saying they were looking for PS3 developers. The rumor is it is coming this September. Keep your eyes peeled. Sarcastic Gamer also just published a post saying they have reason to believe that there will be an animated tv series. What’s more, they even posted some videos. Watch them after the jump.

Stop Overhyping Gears of War 2

     I’m telling you guys. You need to stop it. Don’t get me wrong, it’s going to be a sick game, just not on the GTAIV scale. If the hype keeps building the game is going to be a let down to you and your not going to enjoy it as much. From the look of the trailer the game just isn’t going to be as revolutionary. The graphics are just average, and the once “revolutionary” gameplay mechanics (cover-system, ect.) have now been successfully implemented in many games since the original Gears of War. You can’t say I didn’t warn you.

New Domain

You can now access this site by just visiting http://inferno1321.info. Thank  you for your patience while I continue to update the site.

Site’s Up

Okay. The site is now up (as you have probably noticed). Soon will be transfering this site to http://www.inferno1321.info. This will basically be about whatever happens on my mind. Pretty much all tech related. Cool gadgets I see, video games, ect. Whatever. 

Sony is shooting itself in the foot

As you may know i am little biased towards Sony so it really pains me everytime I hear that they lost another of their great exclusive IPs. It first started with GTA4 and has recently continued with the announcement at E3 that Final Fantasy VIII will be releasing simultaniously on both Microsoft’s and Sony’s platforms. The main reason for the Playstation 2’s success is because of all the great software that is available for it. Without all these exclusives Sony would have never sold over 10 million units. It doesn’t help that Microsoft has an endless budget and is aggressivly going after exclusives. I am considering right now whether to buy an xbox just for Gears 2. I understand that because the PS3 got such a late launch that Sony lost a lot of money, but with sales rising, it is very necessary that they improve upon this in the future.