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This Week In The Business: ‘One Of Microsoft’s Best E3 Conferences’

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Assassin’s Creed’s Creator Sues Ubisoft For Control Of His Next Game

Patrice Désilets, the creator of Assassin’s Creed, is suing Ubisoft for about $US400,000 and control of the game 1666, which he had been building for THQ until it went bankrupt and sold the project to his former employer.


The Week In Games: At Least Someone’s Still Excited About Xbox

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This Week In The Business: A Billion-Dollar Underestimate

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This Week In The Business: ‘I Would Say, Hang On To Your 360.’

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The Wii U Has Nothing To Offer A Sports Fan. Does It Even Matter Now?

If it wasn’t obvious at its launch in November, then this past week should have made it clear: The Wii U is functionally irrelevant to sports video games, and there is no reason for any sports fan to buy the console. The only question now is how much that will really matter to the fate of the machine.


This Week In The Business: ‘What A Bunch Of Elitist B.S.’

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Want To Take Classes From Professor Warren Spector?

Want to take classes from Professor Warren Spector? The University of Texas has created the Denius-Sams Gaming Academy. Spector will guide its curriculum and Paul Sams, Blizzard’s chief operating officer, is also an instructor. Admitted students pay no tuition and get a $US10,000 stipend.


This Week In The Business: A Second Chance To Make A Bad Impression

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No Sales Projections From Nintendo Hint At The DS Going Into Sunset

The long-lived and long-loved Nintendo DS, the thing that’s sold more than 150 million devices (in four formats) and damn near a billion games, received no projected sales in financial statements the company filed today. Is this the end of the world’s most successful gaming handheld?


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