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Game Makers Predict Great Holiday Sales (PC Magazine)

PC Magazine - Videogame sales are expected to be strong this year and in 2009, despite the economic troubles that have hurt some retail stores that sell the games, industry executives said on Thursday.

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Microsoft Aims at Valve’s ‘Steam’ Downloadable Games (PC Magazine)

PC Magazine - Steam in its current form -- a PC game store and Xbox Live-esque community service -- does a lot of what Microsoft talked about doing years ago.

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Videogame makers predict jingle bells at registers (Reuters)

The videogame 'Madden NFL '09' is projected on a wall at the Madden NFL ’09 VIP Premiere party hosted by EA Sports and XBox in Los Angeles, California August 7, 2008. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)Reuters - Videogame sales are expected to be strong this year and in 2009, despite the economic troubles that have hurt some retail stores that sell the games, industry executives said on Thursday.

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Videogame sales up 18 percent in October (Reuters)

Nintendo Co's Wii game console is displayed at an electronic shop in Tokyo's Akihabara district in this January 24, 2008 file photo. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. sales of videogame hardware and software rose 18 percent in October from a year earlier, after falling 7 percent in September, as Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii console sold over 800,000 units, market researcher NPD reported on Thursday.

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