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A number of online stores are having post-Christmas sales on video games for the PC and Xbox 360. A few examples: Amazon.com: Year-End Deals in Video Games A number of Xbox 360 deals, including Assassin's Creed 2 for Xbox 360 ($40, usually $60) and Halo 3: ODST ($45, usually $60). »

There's another non-story over at Ars Technica about Windows 8, supposedly, though if you read this post you'll discover there isn't even an iota of new information, so it's unclear what the point is. But some of it is just plain wrong »

Happy happy holidays from all of us at Fidgit to all of you out there in the real world! We've reduced our staff to a skeleton crew during the holidays consisting of just enough folks to occasionally toss a shovelful of coal into the furnace in the basement. Stay warm, work on that... »

Last week, Microsoft told me it was starting a new blog about Windows Live internals called Inside Windows Live . So, I promptly forgot to post about it for some reason. (I'll blame the holidays and not my early-onset dementia.) Ahem »

Reuters takes a look at the declining success of music games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero in 2009 . According to data from market analyst NPD Group, sales of these games haven't met expectations. The Beatles game, while selling a respectable 800,000 units of its various versions so far, missed the 1... »

Someone who identifies himself as "Sebastian H" writes about how he was affected by the death of a another World of Warcraft player . »

In most strategy games, you earn resources by controlling the map. In Greed Corp , a turn-based game for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and PC in which you play one of four unique factions, you earn resources by eating the very map you're fighting to control »

Marc Ecko's ad-clogged site, The Complex, has posted specifics on how to dress like you're in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 , complete with links you can click to buy each element of the outfit. The three looks we can see dudes rockin' on the streets are: the Brazilian gangsters from the... »

The perfect iPhone game gets an update. GeoSpark now has achievements, new sparks, and a whole new type of spark distribution that makes everything more unpredictable. »