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		<title>Activision Forgets Its Roots, Shuts Down Independent Developer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After successfully fighting a cease and desist order by Vivendi Universal five years ago, the unofficial continuation to the King&#8217;s Quest series has been shut down for good. In 2005, fans successfully convinced Vivendi to allow the indie team behind The Silver Lining to continue development, thanks in part to a letter writing campaign. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simple Gifts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1982, we were fairly well off. Better than most, as my step-dad was an officer in the Air Force. Things weren&#8217;t perfect with them and they divorced just after Christmas. So from riches to rags. We really struggled to make ends meet through that year and as Christmas 1983 rolled around we had no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Street Dates: Archaic Waste of Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So over the weekend a lot of retailers broke the street date for Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. GameStop says they “made the decision to break street date and sell reserved copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in select markets where other retailers had broken street date. Our decision followed many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Buy&#8217;s New Games at Used Prices Experiment Destined to Fail?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brand-new games at used game prices? A pilot program that does just that is being tested at a Best Buy location in Utah. While it sounds like a good deal for consumers, Wedbush-Morgan analyst Michael Pachter doesn&#8217;t expect to see the Best Buy experiment gain traction on a large scale. Of the program, under which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Street Fighter IV for Xbox 360 or PS3 $19.99 at GameStop.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you ready to fight? Street Fighter IV is the latest installment of the hugely successful Street Fighter series. Gamers have liked Street Fighter IV and have given it good reviews. Right now, GameStop has the Street Fighter IV on the Xbox 360 and PS3 for just $19.99 plus $2.99 shipping. Shipping is free if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sony says PS3 is hard to develop for &#8211; On Purpose!?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one of the most shocking and bizarre comments ever made by a company chief, Hirai, the brains behind the entire PlayStation empire, explained to the Official PlayStation Magazine in its February issue that Sony didn&#8217;t want to make it easy on developers. &#34;We don&#8217;t provide the &#8216;easy to program for&#8217; console that (developers) want, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Street Fighter IV</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been a Street Fighter fan for well over a decade, having been sucked in by SF2 when it was in the arcades. I can&#8217;t express to you how excited I am about SF4. All of the myriad of variants never seemed to feel like the old SF2 to me. And while the Virtual [...]]]></description>
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