A little over a week ago I asked people on the site where they bought their video games and hardware from online. The aim was to create an affiliate store of the most popular gaming and hardware outlets in the States and Europe for people to buy products from via the Nexus sites.

The point of this is very simple; buying products from the selected affiliates on the site provides the Nexus sites with a small but valuable commision on all the goods you buy. Do you buy your games from Amazon? Great! Instead of visiting Amazon.com directly simply go to our affiliate store page and use the Amazon button provided instead. Anything you buy from Amazon after that, for that session (i.e. for the remainder of the time you have your browser open), will provide us with a commission. You don't get charged anything extra, absolutely nothing is different other than that one small step. It's very simple and it can provide the Nexus sites with needed funds to keep the sites running, buy new hardware, pay the bandwidth bills and all that jazz.

Our current list of affiliates include:

Amazon (.com and .co.uk)
NewEgg.com
TigerDirect (.com and .ca)
BestBuy.com
Game.co.uk
GameStation.co.uk
The EA Store
Novatech.co.uk
Dabs.com


Some affiliates decided not to work with us, including Target and Game Stop, which was unfortunate but I'll keep pressuring them to work with us as there are some nice game launches and new hardware ranges on the horizon.

While I understand that there are many visitors to this site from non-English speaking countries I found it impossible to sign up for the major French, German and other European retailer's affiliate programs as I am a plain old boring English-only reader. Sorry about that.

Thank you for your consideration in this matter, and thank you to all the people who replied to the earlier news posting asking for feedback.