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		<title>Gone and Without Acclaim</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the 26th Acclaim Games Inc. officially shut down its sites and games. I have to admit that part of me is very sad about this. I loved my time there and I had the pleasure of working with many very cool people. More importantly I’m rather disappointed with Disney in the way things with [...]]]></description>
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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>Happiness isn&#8217;t the destination, it&#8217;s the journey.</title>
		<link>http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/10/02/happiness-isnt-the-destination-its-the-journey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 2Moons we&#8217;ve seen this ongoing discussion about using two game instances (duel clients) of the game to power level a secondary character. We consider this a against the rules because you are not really playing the second character. Instead, letting it tag along an benefit from the high level character since it merely follows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Socrates and the 2Moons Re-launch</title>
		<link>http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/09/25/socrates-and-the-2moons-re-launch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the chaos of bring a major expansion I sometimes get one or two people who ask, &#8220;How do you do it?&#8221;, &#8220;How to you stay calm when it seems like chaos?&#8221; and &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how you don&#8217;t just lose it sometimes&#8221;. I rarely talk about my spiritual beliefs. I&#8217;m just one of those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Buy&#8217;s New Games at Used Prices Experiment Destined to Fail?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/08/10/best-buys-new-games-at-used-prices-experiment-destined-to-fail/</link>
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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>MARVEL VS. CAPCOM&#174; 2 AVAILABLE NOW THROUGH XBOX LIVE&#174; ARCADE</title>
		<link>http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/07/29/marvel-vs-capcom-2-available-now-through-xbox-live-arcade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/07/29/marvel-vs-capcom-2-available-now-through-xbox-live-arcade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continue the Battle Online as 56 of Marvel and Capcom&#8217;s Iconic Characters Duke It Out in the Legendary Fighting Game SAN MATEO, Calif. — July 29, 2008 - Capcom® Entertainment, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, today launched the long-awaited Marvel VS. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes for Xbox LIVE® Arcade. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Street Fighter IV for Xbox 360 or PS3 $19.99 at GameStop.com</title>
		<link>http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/07/28/street-fighter-iv-for-xbox-360-or-ps3-19-99-at-gamestop-com-2/</link>
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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>Spellborn Community Webinar June 17th</title>
		<link>http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/06/19/spellborn-community-webinar-june-17th/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thehistorian.org/2009/06/19/spellborn-community-webinar-june-17th/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we had El Drijver, David Perry, Ben Beren, a few of the GMs and myself. This week in our open format we talked about the new patch. Everything from what they thought of the new starter area to some of the reworked quests. I know they have been posted all over the place, [...]]]></description>
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