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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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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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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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Boom in music video games helps original artists
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 AP - "This song is dedicated to Debbie Harry," flinty-eyed Lisa Hsuan purrs into a microphone on the red-lit stage of Hyperion Tavern. It's a cozy dive where patrons drink Coke and beer from bottles and a fading chandelier dangles overhead.
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Christmas trees, candles can be deadly combination
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 AP - The handheld Nintendo was carefully wrapped and placed on the dining room table. Upstairs were the gifts Santa would put under the tree on Christmas Eve. The tree was ready to go up. Instead, while driving her daughter to a party, Lisa Cochran got a call telling her all had been destroyed in a devastating fire.
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Microsoft sold 28 million Xbox 360s by end of 2008
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 Reuters - Microsoft Corp sold 28 million units worldwide of its Xbox 360 video game console through the end of 2008, expanding the Xbox's lead over rival Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 console in worldwide unit sales, the company said on Monday.
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AFP - Struggling US videogame maker Electronic Arts Inc. announced additional job cuts on Friday and plans to merge or close at least nine studios and publishing facilities.