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 Like many gamers, you may have signed up for a membership to the ECA over the past year. Maybe you did it for the now-defunct 10% off Amazon game purchases deal, or maybe you just wanted to support an organization that promised to support you as a gamer. If you did, the ECA is paying you back this week not in savings or in advocacy, but in hassles and consumer bullying. You see, the ECA has seen fit to remove a feature from their website that allowed members to cancel auto-renewals. Their This in itself is a little annoying as a business decision, but where things get hairy is in that the organization did nothing to warn members who already used it that their auto-renewals were not canceled. From here on out, the organization will only accept written cancellation requests at: Attn: Accounting, ECA 64 Danbury Road, Suite 700 Wilton, CT 06897-4406 Further, they've used their forums to all but say that they will ignore letters that do not have a tracking number, so be sure to use certified mail when you cancel. Finally, don't think you're safe from charges if your card has expired, as the ECA will update your expiration date on their own in order to continue charging you. As a reminder, even promotional memberships culled from the "GIMAG" code have credit cards on file and will be charged $19.99 when your year expires. The ECA is supposed to email you a month in advance to remind you, but with the organization being this anti-consumer, who knows what tactics they will stoop to next. Consumers, you have been warned.
It's no secret that the PS3 is damn expensive. Sony's decision to include a BluRay player gave it's hardware a slight advantage for cutting edge early adopters back in 2006 and 2007. At that time, the PS3 was among the cheapest BluRay players on the market: it was like getting a free game console.
 As if the surprising success of the Wii wasn't enough to make Nintendo the #1 video game company today, they've just announced that they've shipped 100 millllllion DS's since the console's launch in 2004. Included in the figures are sales for the original Nintendo DS, Nintendo DS Lite, and Nintendo DSi. If you have any doubt about Nintendo's dominance in the handheld market, keep in mind that just last month Sony announced worldwide PSP sales at 50 million units. In addition, the DS has spawned over 80 titles with sales of over 1 million, 7 of those topping the 10 million mark.
 File this one under surprising. According to a recent survey done by the NPD consumer tracking group, the Wii is the second most popular gaming console played online at 29% of total consoles online. Last year, the Wii only managed 18% of consoles online. The top console online, as you might expect, is the Xbox-360 at 50%. A specific percentage for the PS3 was not included in the NPD group's press release, but it was noted that it made 3rd place behind the Wii. Being that the Wii's online system is so hindered by friend codes, we would have expected different results. Perhaps this is solely due to the staggering success of Smash Brothers, Guitar Hero and Mario Kart, but we can't be sure. The PS3's library also includes a few huge online titles such as Call of Duty 4/WaW and Burnout Paradise. Hit the source link for the full press release.
With the economy on life support, game pricing has been a very hot topic among publishers, developers, retailers, and consumers lately.
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E3's gimpy, retarded, little brother, E-For-All was put to rest today in a statement from it's organizer IDG to Joystiq.
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