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These days, it's usually a wise choice to go around looking for deals on your favorite video games. Gamestop is offering a few deals of its own from the week of March 2 to March 8. These include a buy two, take one promo, discounts and what not. In fact, we'll make you a deal as well: if you turn to the full article after the jump, we'll give you more details on Gamestop's Deal of the Week. How about it? |
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What are they playing over at Sweden? Aren't you curious? This bit of
info just might save your life one day, y'know. The region's data trade
firm, Dataspelsbranschen (now try saying that as fast as you can, ten
times consecutively), has just released the top sales charts of video games
for Sweden.The Multiplatform chart is dominated by the MMORPG mogul that is The World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade from Blizzard. This is followed by Pokémon Diamond on the Nintendo DS. MotorStorm and R:FoM have also landed a place in the multiplatform chart, and unsurprisingly, both titles get bragging rights in the PS3 chart. The 360 chart has Guitar Hero II fronting the musical act - and smack dab in the middle is Gears of War on fifth place. The Wii has Leon Kennedy and Ashley Graham running up to first place with Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition, while Twilight Princess is galloping up to the Top 2 spot. On the handheld side, the DS chart has both Pokemon (Diamond and Pearl) titles on top, while the PSP chart has Pro Evolution Soccer 6 kicking into the goal - Konami's sports title is enjoying the kingly spot on top. Multiformat
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BioShock's
still hot and heavy as Gamefly's top requested game on Gamefly for the
week ending on August 13. The past two weeks seems to be a period of
great upheaval for the PlayStation 3. The Xbox 360 and the Wii, on the
other hand, still has its top three intact.
What's new on the 360 though, is that Darkness has finally released its death grip on top five. Overlord also drops to make way for Stranglehold and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08. BioShock is on its second week at number one, its release impending with only a week to go. Resident Evil has dropped out of the top five games for the Wii, while Metroid Prime 3: Corruption has jumped to first place in anticipation for its release next month. Boogie, which was released last week, didn't make the cut. The PS3 experienced a heavy change this week as Lair drops from first place to last on the top 5. Ninja Gaiden Sigma drops one more place to take 4th while Madden NFL 08 takes first. Darkness also leaves the PS3 top 5, but Heavenly Sword has gone up to 2nd. View the full list at the full article after the jump! |
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Let's face it - cute, cuddly monsters with freakish powers beats angst, bespectacled wizard trainees any day. Taking the lead in UK's most recent Chart Track all-format poll ending July 28 is Nintendo's Pokemon Diamond for the DS, with Activision's Transformers: The Game taking second place.
For the PlayStation 3, Resistance: Fall of Man appears to be holding to the number 10 post, while Forza MotorSport 2 for the Xbox 360 tailgates along at 11th.
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The American Library Association recently held their annual meeting in Washington and the focus of the gathering was how to help students who have learned many of their information gathering
and analysis skills from video games apply that knowledge in the library.The suggestions from the experts were striking: our friendly librarians should play more video games. However, solving the widening gap is not as easy as that as pointed out by Online Computer Library Center VP George M. Needham. He pointed out that the students of today are "Digital Natives" while the librarians are simply "Digital Immigrants." And much like the theory behind migration, the immigrants should be the one to adopt and not the other way around. Likewise, author of book "Digital Game-Based Learning" Marc Prensky explained: In geography - which is all but ignored these days - there is no reason that a generation that can memorize over 100 Pokemon characters with all their characteristics, history, and evolution can't learn the names, populations, capitals and relationships of all the 101 nations in the world. It just depends on how it is presented. Needham mentioned as well that he is not suggesting that college libraries "tear up the stacks to put in arcades," but that they rethink many assumptions and teaching methods. He added: The librarian as information priest is as dead as Elvis. The whole gestalt of the academic library has been set up like a church with various parts of a reading room acting like the stations of the cross, all leading up to the altar of the reference desk, where you make supplication and if you are found worthy, you will be helped. |
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Remember all those McDonald's outlets that display how many people they have served over the years? Now, imagine putting that sort of computing into videogames, and see who comes out on top. With that said, we bring you this Top 20 published by the UK-based "The Independent." From what we see, Japan seems to hold in this list, with Mario, Pokemon, and Final Fantasy making it to the top three. Then again, it looks like all the top gaming mascots are here. We advise the fans out there to cross-reference this with anything else they may have read, for accuracy's sake. Enjoy poring over it. ![]() The best-selling games franchises
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