Yesterday, the Retail Radar picked up a name change in Electronic Arts' PSP edition of The Godfather slightly in advance of the switch being made official this morning. Today there are a pair of other blips on the screen that might hint at both good and bad news for Xbox 360 owners.
First, the good news. GameStop has put up a product listing for "Fusion Frenzy 2," apparently a spell-check-ravaged sequel to the Xbox launch party game Fuzion Frenzy. Microsoft Game Studios is listed as the game's developer and publisher, but the first-party party game curiously carries a decidedly third-party price point of $59.99. The game is currently tagged with a November 1 ship date.
Now the bad news. GameStop has updated its online and brick-and-mortar price for the 1600 Xbox Live Marketplace Points Cards. Instead of the roughly $20 the cards used to fetch at GameStop (and still go for at every other major retailer we checked out), 1600 Marketplace points are now going for $24.99 at the retailer's real and virtual storefronts.
But credit card-less 360 owners might not need to start rioting in the streets just yet. A Microsoft representative told GameSpot that there hasn't been any official change in the company's suggested retail price for the cards. A call to GameStop's media relations department went unreturned as of press time.