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    Valve Discusses Charging Customers Based on Popularity

    It would be interesting to see how this idea would stand up in court, because you know that's where it'll land. Sometimes things can be beyond the player's control: for example, on Xbox Live, I received several "Quit Early" negative player reviews in the first day or so of playing Halo 3 -- I...
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    Editor's Note: Going With The Flow

    "I'm only about 70 or so hours into [Dragon Age II]." That many? You must be revisiting every area even more than the game already forces you to? :D
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    284: The Jewel in PopCap's Crown

    "Bejeweled also birthed the match-three puzzle game genre." Uhh, no. It had been around for years before, Bejeweled was just the latest incarnation. I'm sure that's why everyone's able to clone it without PopCap stopping them -- prior art and all that. Just like Zuma, it's a derivative of...
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    283: Introducing The Escapist's Genre Wheel

    I like it -- I just hope that making the Action/Strategy/Exploration and Strategy/Exploration parts of the chart the pink "girly" colours was purely coincidental... you may want to rotate the colour wheel in future versions, just in case. ;)