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by Jake Widman
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Frustrated by the low margins available from dollar-a-shot purchases, record labels are working on ways to entice music consumers to buy entire albums once again. Some are working with Apple, while others are developing their own approach.
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by Mike Bantick
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Family members sick of your repetitious warbling in SingStar? Time to download some new tracks to sing along to, and Sony has signed up Universal Music to provide a new batch of material for your living room repertoire.
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by Mike Bantick
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2K Games today informed fans of post-apocalyptic role playing fun the dates of release for the upcoming Borderlands
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by Mike Bantick
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Microsoft paid the big bucks so that Xbox 360 owners could enjoy the extra GTA IV content. Rockstar Games today confirmed a price and release date for Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City a stand-alone game with two GTA IV episodes.
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by Jake Widman
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The director of the Spider-Man movies has been signed to direct the movie based on the World of Warcraft online role-playing game.
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by David Swan
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$1.92 million US dollars. This princely sum is the amount that Jammie
Thomas-Rasset was sued last month in America for downloading 24 songs
illegally online. No-one wants to be next, so what are the best legal
options available in Australia for downloading music, and what new services can you look
forward to?
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by Mike Bantick
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There is already plenty of ways to fill your hours with fun on Facebook, but now Ubisoft step in to give further structure to the social network with UbiFriends the game portal.
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by Mike Bantick
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Every kid has read the book, and soon every kid (or kid at heart) can take Max on his boat to the isle where the Wild Things are.
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by Stuart Corner
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Barnes & Noble, the world's largest bookseller, has launched the Barnes & Noble eBookstore offering 700,000 eBooks - plus half a million free, courtesy of Google - that can be downloaded and read on a wide range of platforms, including the iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, Windows and Mac PCs and, exclusively, the forthcoming Plastic Logic eReader.
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by Mike Bantick
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U.S President Barack Obama suggests it is time for parents to put away the Xbox, Microsoft says just hang on there a minute Mr President.
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by Mike Bantick
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Playing the PR game smoothly, Activision today confirmed a further 22 tracks for the upcoming Guitar Hero 5. Adding The Rolling Stones, Thin Lizzy, The Screaming Trees and, ulp! Sir Elton John into the mix.
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by David Swan
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It’s happened to everyone. Just as Darth Vader is about to fall to his death, or Rocky’s about to land the final punch, nature calls. If you gotta go, you gotta go, but one iPhone app is here so that when you do, you don’t miss anything important.
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by Mike Bantick
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Pretend drumming has always been fun, and now with Guitar Hero: World Tour – and Rock Band of course – we can all live the dream of being a drummer. Well to counter some of the drummer jokes and to give some higher tech legitimacy to our plastic drumming dreams, Logitech have a new wireless drum kit controller set to invade our living rooms.
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by Mike Bantick
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Fans of virtual soccer have a date to put in their calendar as Electronic arts confirm the release date for FIFA 10.
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by Mike Bantick
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Announcing their second annual winter of arcade (if you are in the southern hemisphere), including titles such as Marvel vs Capcom, Splosion Man and Shadow Complex, Xbox management also hinted at the ability to grab fully fledged Xbox 360 games as a download service.
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by Mike Bantick
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Here is the first taster of on disc songs for the upcoming Guitar Hero 5. Iggy Pop gets to strut his stuff along with Kings of Leon, Deep Purple and even Bob Dylan.
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by Mike Bantick
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The first casualties were the Battlefield 1943 servers as the Xbox 360 game popularity brought the EA infrastructure to its knees.
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by David Swan
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Apple's App Store has slightly over 50,000 apps available, an avalanche by any standards. It can be tough to sort the standouts from the one star duds, but help is here. 'Zen Bound' is the first in a long list of hidden gems on offer, but what makes it so unique, and why should you care?
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