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Video game maker EA to cut 1,000 jobs
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 Reuters - Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc said on Friday it will cut 1,000 jobs, or 10 percent of its work force, as part of a restructuring plan that will save around $120 million a year.
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Video games inspired by TV, movies, board games
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 AP - Like so many American creations — baseball, comic books, rock 'n' roll — the video game is a mongrel art form. Literature, music, art and film all get jumbled together in this relatively new medium, but even that isn't enough: Designers have to figure out how to make the whole package interactive as well.
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Video-Game Sales Remain Robust In November
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NewsFactor - The research firm NPD Group reports that U.S. retail video-game sales totaled $2.91 billion in November -- a 10 percent jump from one year earlier. Moreover, video-game sales grew 22 percent through the first 11 months of 2008 in comparison with the prior year.
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Videogame music, the "new art form"
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 AFP - A travelling show featuring a symphony orchestra playing videogame theme music gave fans in France a first taste of what the organisers describe as "a new art form."
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Wii boosts UK games sales, music resilient
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Reuters - British retailers sold a record combined number of DVDs, games and music in 2008 despite the economic gloom, boosted by the popularity of Nintendo's Wii and single downloads, trade bodies said on Wednesday.
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Wii Sports Best Selling Video Game Ever?
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PC World - The console game Wii aficionados literally can't live without is now unofficially the top selling video game ever. That game would be Wii Sports, a hodgepodge of Mii-infested no-frills sports games that comes with every single Wii, desired or no.
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Xbox 360 Disc-Scratching Document Suggests Microsoft Knew
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PC World - Did Microsoft know about the Xbox 360's potential to scratch spinning discs when reoriented? SeattlePi.com has an unsealed legal document from an ongoing lawsuit against the company that suggests they did. That document, which seek formal class action status, alleges that
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