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  • 17 Billion hours of X-Box Live

    17 Billion hours of X-Box Live

    You ever get the feeling you spend too much time playing video games? Today Microsoft has announced that 17 billion hours have now been spent by users on Xbox Live, representing nearly three hours for each person on Earth. For a long time McDonalds touted...

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  • Aliens: Crucible – Unreleased Footage

    Aliens: Crucible – Unreleased Footage

    Were you aware Obsidian entertainment was working on an Aliens themed role playing game for the console and PC? Well if you weren’t, bad news, it was cancelled. If you were, at least you can watch some footage that was released over the weekend. (Which...

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  • Lemon

    The Death of Customer Service – The new Lemon law

    Please bear with me as I go all Keith Olbermann, special comment on you. We all know whether we buy a two hundred dollar notebook or a seven thousand dollar gaming system we expect a product that works as advertised. Often in my time working...

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  • Orbital Housing market report

    Orbital Housing market report

    Home buying in the U.S. might be down 16%, but the virtual orbital housing market is booming. In the MMO Planet Calypso (formerly Entropia Universe) player “Buzz Erik Lightyear” has laid down $330,000 of his own real life money to purchase a 3.3 million dollar...

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  • Mother calls 911 on son over excessive video game playing

    Mother calls 911 on son over excessive video game playing

    We have heard stories about parents, wives and girlfriends who become upset when a video game hobby turns into an addiction. We have also seen what happens when a parent tries to take away a game from a child. Now we take another step forward...

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