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Xbox Division Posts $165 million Profit in Q1
Who says Nintendo is the only profitable console maker? Microsoft has announced that its Xbox division has finally netted the company a nice profit during the first quarter. Not surprisingly, Halo 3's blockbuster launch had much to do with it. The game generated $330 million in Q1.
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Bethesda Parent Company Receives $300 Million in Funding
ZeniMax Media, which owns Bethesda Softworks, received a very serious infusion of cash today from Providence Equity Partners. Among other things, this money will be used to help make MMO games. Could The Elder Scrolls Online be far behind?
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Black Magic for Beowulf Game
The anticipated retelling of the Anglo-Saxon poem will be accompanied by a video game. More than just featuring the appropriate actors, the development team for the Beowulf game met up many times with the movie staff to make the game as natural a fit with the movie as possible.
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Electronic Arts Shifts NASCAR 09 to New North Carolina Studio
EA Sports has opened a brand new studio near Raleigh, NC and is actively hiring. The publisher is transitioning the NASCAR series away from Tiburon (known for Madden) to the NC studio. EA tells GameDaily BIZ that the new studio location gives them another recruitment option.
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The Orange Box Looks Green to Valve
Valve's Orange Box compilation for PC and Xbox 360 has stormed out of the gate and could end up in the top five overall sales for the year, according to Valve's Doug Lombardi. We spoke at length with Lombardi about the keys to Orange Box's success.
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 Creating the Songs Behind Guitar Hero III
What do DDR, Karaoke Revolution and Guitar Hero III have in common? WaveGroup produced the audio for these popular music titles. GameDaily BIZ spoke with WaveGroup CEO Will Littlejohn about the Guitar Hero phenomenon and creating music for games.
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| Top 10 PC Games |
| Top 10 PC Games (Week Ending October 13, 2007) |
| 1. Half Life 2: Episode 2 The Orange Box |
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2. Nancy Drew: Legend Of The Crystal Skull |
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3. Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask Of The Betrayer |
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4. The Sims 2 Bon Voyage |
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5. Enemy Territory: Quake Wars |
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6. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade |
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7. World Of Warcraft |
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8. The Sims 2 Deluxe |
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9. World In Conflict |
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10. World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest |
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| Company | Price | Change | |
 | Activision | 22.93 | +0.58 | |
 | Atari Inc. | 2.50 | -0.45 | |
| Best Buy | 47.93 | +0.27 | |
| EA | 56.85 | -0.40 | |
| Gamestop | 56.61 | -1.52 | |
| Konami | 28.84 | +1.60 | |
| Majesco | 1.382 | +0.03 | |
| Microsoft | 31.99 | +0.74 | |
| Midway | 3.00 | +0.01 | |
| Sony | 47.98 | +2.69 | |
| Take 2 | 17.41 | -0.34 | |
| THQ Int. | 25.13 | +0.36 | |
| Ubisoft | 55.60 | +0.35 | |
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