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Managing Game Career Advancement on the Job
Ready to advance your video game career, but you'd like to stay at your present company? GameRecruiter.com CEO Marc Mencher continues his monthly column on game industry career planning with advice on how to advance your position with your current employer.
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Changes at Nintendo, Promax/BDA & More
This week in Industry Movers MI6 parent company Promax/BDA appointed a new President; Nintendo of America brought on two new executives; Runescape developer Jagex appointed a new CEO; and Hidden City Games hired a couple senior game designers. Get the details...
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PS3 is Not More Powerful than Xbox 360, says Ex-Harmonix Dev
Sony has said that the PlayStation 3 has more power than Microsoft's Xbox 360, but that it requires a bit of patience and legwork to leverage that power. Jason Booth, a former developer from Harmonix, just doesn't see it happening. He thinks game designers are trying to match PS3 games to 360 games at best.
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Sony Bullish on PS2 on Console's Seventh Anniversary
Pop some champagne - it's PS2's seventh birthday! In honor of the anniversary, SCEA is launching a new PS2 ceramic white bundle that includes SingStar Pop. Going forward, the company remains very confident about the platform's momentum this holiday and beyond. [Update: added exact date for SingStar bundle]
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Will Wright Says Wii Truly 'Next-Gen,' Xbox 360 'Collecting Dust'
The PC remains Will Wright's first love, but the creator of Spore has also developed a fondness for the Wii, which he believes is the "most significant thing that's happened... on the console side, in quite a while."
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 SystemAddict: Episodic Gaming Losing Steam
Is the episodic format an idea too far ahead of its time? Episodic gaming at one point seemed like all the rage, but it's a model that has been questioned of late. In fact, Orange Box creator Valve Software is currently rethinking the episodic format.
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| 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 | 23.67 | +0.74 | |
| Atari Inc. | 2.56 | +0.06 | |
| Best Buy | 48.29 | +0.36 | |
| EA | 58.08 | +1.23 | |
| Gamestop | 57.44 | +0.83 | |
 | Konami | 28.74 | -0.10 | |
| Majesco | 1.39 | +0.00 | |
| Microsoft | 35.03 | +3.04 | |
| Midway | 3.03 | +0.03 | |
| Sony | 49.22 | +1.24 | |
| Take 2 | 17.92 | +0.51 | |
| THQ Int. | 25.67 | +0.54 | |
| Ubisoft | 56.13 | +0.53 | |
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