Today at 12:00pm est GameStop kicked off their powerhour sale. During the sales event GameSpot began offering one of the biggest games of 2010, Red Dead Redemption, for more than half off. The PS3 version of RDR was discounted to the attractive price of just $23.99.
Once word spread about the powerhour sale, GameStop’s website was subjected to heavy traffic that caused the site to crashed with reports of errors such as “Server too Busy” or loads a blank screen. GameStop’s sister site, EBGames, which also featured the sale, received similar server problems as well.
The sale ended at 1:00pm est and both sites are up an running smoothly again. A quick check of both websites reveal that the sale was a success as Red Dead Redemption is sold out.
Hope you got your copy.
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Written by: Sakinah
- Contributing Editor
#1 by Luke on July 9th, 2010 [ 27347 Points ]
Oh come on! And here I am paying $45 w/ shipping.
#2 by Oly on July 9th, 2010 [ 129779 Points ]
omg i missed it!!! I need another copy to play with my son!
#3 by EdEN on July 9th, 2010 [ 103377 Points ]
That would have been nice. The game at half off AND new. Now everyone will be stalking Gamestop.com for the next offer.
#4 by uberamza on July 12th, 2010 [ 915 Points ]
I’m so mad that I missed this offer. I want the game bad but I just can’t swing 60 bucks right now.