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GameStop Throwing “World’s Largest” Mordern Warfare 2 Tourney

5:00AM AJ Glasser | You remember when “tournament” used to mean knights in armour and jousting and stuff? Of course you don’t. Everyone knows “tournament” means “chess” or “video games” now. More »
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You Got Albert Wesker In My Lost Planet 2

4:20AM Mike Fahey | What’s Resident Evil’s Albert Wesker doing in Capcom’s Lost Planet 2? Pre-order the game from GameStop to find out. More »
Culture

Heist Nets 100 Copies Of Modern Warfare 2

12:00PM Owen Good | Conflict currency — it’s not cash, but goods or valuables that are small, easily liquidated, easily smuggled. Diamonds are the classic example. We might have to add Modern Warfare 2 to the list after what just went down in Pennsylvania. More »
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Mario Goes Round And Round In NASCAR Race

10:20AM Michael McWhertor | If our glowing review for Nintendo’s New Super Mario Bros. doesn’t convince you to buy a Wii, perhaps seeing Mario, Luigi and his Toad followers on a NASCAR chassis will! More »
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GameStop To Sell DLC…In Their Stores

8:00PM Luke Plunkett | Next year, GameStops across the US will begin testing a new service whereby gamers can buy DLC not online, but in a store, then take it home with them. It’s called the “Missing The Point” program. More »
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What The Captains Of The Industry Said Today

10:20AM Stephen Totilo | Three ideas popped out to me while attending a series of presentations from top executives in the gaming industry today: Ideas about price, women, mid-cycle relaunches and which games matter most to the bottom line. More »
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Publishers Respond To GameStop Breaking MW2 Street Date

9:20AM Stephen Totilo | A day after the United States’ biggest games-only retailer, GameStop, started selling Modern Warfare 2 early, Activision has labelled the practice disappointing. Fellow publishers Sony and Capcom also weighed in. More »
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GameStop Responds; MW2 Broken Street Date A Corporate Decision

2:20PM Owen Good | GameStop’s top spokesman contacted Kotaku on Sunday evening to confirm that certain of its North American stores broke Modern Warfare 2’s Nov. 10 street date and began selling the game this weekend. GameStop corporate authorised the sales, he said. More »
Features

Modern Warfare 2 Navigates A Sea Of Second-Guessers

10:00AM Brian Crecente | Incensed politicians, angry fans, boycotting retailers: What might be the biggest video game launch in history has more than its share of controversy. More »