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'Fallout 3' led an action-packed '08
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 AP - It's been another spectacular year for video games, with more than enough compelling adventures to satisfy even the most demanding player. It's been a particularly gratifying year for Xbox 360 owners, who have benefited from a consistent flow of first-rate software from Microsoft and other publishers.
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Amazon.com Becomes Santa Sweatshop, Says U.K. Report
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PC World - To make sure you get your Xbox 360 this Christmas, Amazon's U.K. workers pack 140 games consoles every hour. And that might be the easiest part of their day, according to a report in the Times of London
, which says laborers are sometimes made to walk up to 14 miles a shift to collect items for packing. The report also notes that U.K. workers risking firing if they take sick days, even with a doctor's note.
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Analyst: Slow HDTV Sales Hurting PS3 Sales
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PC Magazine - A November report from the NPD Group shows a large disparity between sales of the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360. One obvious reason is the difference in price, but Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter suggests that the differenc is also due to the sagging sales of HDTVs.
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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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CDs Purchases Down, Video Games Help Sales
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PC Magazine - Sales of physical CDs continued to decline in the third quarter while digital download sales saw a small uptick, according to data from NPD Group. Artists who participated in music-based video games, meanwhile, also saw a bump in album sales.
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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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Do-It-Yourself Free Xbox 360 Wireless
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PC World - The words "free" and "Xbox 360" are like J.D. Salinger and a gaggle of paparazzi -- never seen together. Still, Popular Science just invoked them with this curious bit of homebrew trickery that might (and having not tested it, I stress might) save you the $100 Microsoft hoodwinks consumers to pony up for its vanilla Xbox 360 USB wireless adapter.
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