Even with thorough market research, it’s difficult to conclude how new-games buyers – a consumer set that occasionally acts irrationally – would be affected in absence of the resale subsidy. What it does show us is that there are more market forces at play here than common sense would imply.

Lee Everett, a man convicted of a crime of passion, has been given the chance for redemption in a world devastated by the undead. Players will experience life changing events, meet new characters and familiar ones from the original comic, and also visit locations that foreshadow the story of Deputy Sheriff Rick Grimes. The Walking Dead offers a tailored game experience – player actions, choices and decisions affect how the story plays out across the entire series.

It’s the year 3587, conflict spans the stars. Huge robot armies are locked in an enduring stalemate. In their bid for galactic conquest they call upon the most powerfull group of mercenaries in the universe: the Awesomenauts!

Awesomenauts brings team-based competetive arena play to a platforming perspective. Play and customize several Awesomenauts as you storm the online battlegrounds and unlock loads of new abilities and characters for your arsenal. Coming May 2nd 2012 to Xbox LIVE Arcade and Playstation Network!

Hurtling through time and space like a fat guy falling down a really deep hole, this week we find your fearless heroes discussing the best intro and ending sequences in gaming history. They also take pause from saving the universe to discuss Space Marine, The Walking Dead, and the untold stories of Fraggle Rock.

We’re back doing our best to keep the world from ending. Niki hates all of you, but loves Prototype 2. Pete talks about Arkham City’s eventual shark-jumping, then promptly dies (or does he?) Adam talks Dragon’s Dogma, The Walking Dead, and why you shouldn’t base your life off of warnings shouted at you by random vagrants in alleys. Dan questions the choices in his life that have led him to this (not audibly.)

Had I Am Alive allowed itself to skew closer to the side of realism, even to the detriment of gameplay and “fun”, it could have been something truly magical. If it pressed on in the entirely different direction, toward tight combat and ever-increasing abilities, it could have been a thrilling if ultimately forgettable ride.

This week the gang’s all together to talk Sboners, Cheeto-sinusitis, K-Stew’s contributions to string theory, Bubb Rubb, and the existential properties of space, spaceships, and Ship Shipley. There’s also some talk of Mass Effect 3, Resistance 1 and 2, Killzone 2 and 3, and Batman: Arkham City.

Adam and Pete grace your earholes with organic carnivorous vehicles, problem solving the Bash way, robo-envy, Fatal Frame 2′s fatal flaws, I Am Alive, FEZ, and the best solution for humanity’s impending collapse: the ArkCar.

The middle of 2007 was a great time for perspective shifting. In April, Nintendo released Super Paper Mario, wherein Mario was able to push back from 2d to reveal a hidden z-axis. The following month, Sega gave PSP users a similar experience with Crush, which added the ability to spin the camera when in a 3d perspective to alter the world when “crushed” back to 2d. It was amid the sudden genesis of this new camera mechanic that Phil Fish announced FEZ on July 17, 2007. A few months shy of five years later, we get to see if the mechanic still feels novel.

I Am Alive is, in a sense, the survivor of its own development apocalypse. Originally announced in 2008, the title was shuffled from Darkworks to Ubisoft Shanghai in 2010, shortly before the former developer went defunct. Treading dangerously close to vaporware after maintaining radio silence for so long, it was finally re-announced as a downloadable title that saw release last month on XBox Live Arcade and last week on Sony Entertainment Network. Absolutely nothing in this paragraph should make you the least bit optimistic about the resultant game.

I kind of don’t know where to begin with this one. I think we talked about I Am Alive for a while, and some about used games, and a little bit about the future of mobile gaming. But amidst that all I really remember is the stuff about strippers, Paulie D, icepops, Showbiz Pizza, and the pending robot revolution.

This episode of Fall Damage podcast features adult situations.

We overcome all this week to bring you the best sounding Fall Damage ever. On the agenda: terrifying your family with April Fool’s Day pranks, pajama complainants, Pete talks about finally finishing Skyward Sword, Adam details his new TV crime drama starring Idris Elba as an undead coroner, Dan gets ridicarus on Kid Icarus, and Niki ruins Pete’s dreams of Silent Hill: Downpour.

Mass Effect 3 plunges you into an all-out galactic war to take Earth back from a nearly unstoppable foe – and how you fight that war is entirely up to you. Choose a fast-paced cinematic experience or delve into a deeper, more choice-driven narrative. Either way, intense combat propels the action as you fight to unite a war-torn galaxy against a common enemy.