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The Daily GameDev.Net
GameDev.Net — ... in the US. The buzz is that the new handheld is going to retail for $179.99 and will be released during the first half of 2009 and according to IGN which cites "multiple sources close to Nintendo", April 4th will likely be the release date. Earlier comments by Nintendo of America's president, Reggie Fils-Aime, suggested that the DSi would not be released in the US until at least April this year. More ways for games to penetrate the market. The UK will soon have an online video game subscription service very similar to US's Gamefly . Just like Gamefly, for a subscription ...

On Game Rentals
Blue's News — ... has commentary from Frontier Development's David Braben ( Elite ) about GAME's planned UK online rental service . Braben finds the idea interesting and worthwhile but expresses the strong opinion that to properly support such an initiative, the game industry should start creating differentiated retail and rental SKUs: "What we could do, much like the DVD industry does, is mark retail copies 'not for rental or resale' and have special 'for rental' copies. What we can do as an industry is make sure those rental copies have access to the sort of thing that is potentially going ...