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  • More 3D football (soccer) comes to Europe: Up next, Belgium & Poland

    More 3D football (soccer) comes to Europe: Up next, Belgium & Poland

    More 3D broadcasts are sweeping across Europe. The next countries up are Belgium and Poland. They follow the UK and Germany—oh, and the U.S.

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  • Can we blame Nintendo’s profit drop on the lack of gamer’s games?

    Can we blame Nintendo’s profit drop on the lack of gamer’s games?

    It hasn't been the best couple of months for Nintendo. Profits were down for the six months leading up to September, which the company blames on the strong yen and the Wii's price cut. Net sales, too, were down, some 34.5 percent. Fair enough, and those reasons are likely to explain Nintendo's situation, but is there something else going on? I know Pat Buchanan, the older gentlemen that he is, always uses the phrase “the chickens have come home to roost,” and I think it's applicable here. Perhaps Nintendo's strategy of selling the Wii to the “casual” crowd (housewives and the like, to simplify this) has finally run out of gas?

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  • Is it at all possible to hibernate till World of Warcraft: Cataclysm comes out?

    Is it at all possible to hibernate till World of Warcraft: Cataclysm comes out?

    It was only a few days ago that I gently chided Apple fans, telling them to “hold their horses” with respect to Snow Leopard's release date. One Blizzcon later, not only have I re-rolled another character (a Warlock), I'm now trolling message boards, comment pages, and the like looking for more and more information about Cataclysm, the upcoming expansion pack. The most important bit of information still eludes me: its release date.

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