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• Video Games - In Medal of Honor, Role Playing Includes Taliban - NYTimes.com
  The Taliban try to kill American troops every day. That is reality. Can you handle it in a video game?
• Microsoft to raise price of Xbox Live come November
  Xbox Live is a powerful weapon in Microsoft's Xbox 360 arsenal, but gamers aren't likely to be happy with an unexpected and unexplained increase in the price of the service.
• Sony 'exploring' idea of Online Pass style system for its titles
  In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, SCE Europe boss Andrew House has suggested that the company is taking a serious look at implementing something similar to EA's Online Pass
• Gamers beat algorithms at finding protein structures
  Today's issue of Nature contains a paper with a rather unusual author list. Read past the standard collection of academics, and the final author credited is... an online gaming community.
• My Four-Year-Old Son Plays Grand Theft Auto
  At the very impressionable age of four, my son loved Grand Theft Auto. More specifically, the version he played was the Hot Coffee moddable, San Andreas. Before Child Protective Services bestows upon me the prestigious honor of father of the year, allow me to explain.
• GameStop Goes Digital
  Videogame retailer GameStop has now begun selling digital content in more than 4,000 of its stores.
• Diablo 3 video shows off artisans, crafting system
  Now that StarCraft 2 has been released, we can begin to look forward to Diablo 3 with renewed fervor. Blizzard has revealed a new feature of the game today: artisans that travel with your party as you go adventuring.
• Resistance 3! Killzone 3! New PS3s! Sony delivers the goods
  Sony is blowing the roof off Gamescom, which is taking place in Cologne Germany as we speak.
• Xbox Live launch titles for Windows Phone 7 finally revealed, we've got the full preview
• Metroid: Other M Puts Those Duct-Taped GameCubes To Work (Video)
  I think it's the highest praise you can heap on a Wii game, at least in terms of its appearance, when you can say it doesn't look like a Wii game.

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