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		<title>Photos: The Founding Fathers of Video Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Fisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mad geniuses behind many of the most iconic video games of the 70s and 80s are reuniting to rethink and maybe even reinvent video gaming.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&amp;blog=5290478&amp;post=117474&amp;subd=timenerdworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Best Buy&#8217;s Daily Deals Site Selling Pre-Owned Nintendo Wii for $70</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Best Buy-owned CowBoom.com is discounting video game consoles today, with one of the better deals being Nintendo's Wii for $70 (plus $5 for shipping). For comparison, popular used game reseller GameStop sells used Wiis starting at $90.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&amp;blog=5290478&amp;post=112549&amp;subd=timenerdworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Herman Cain&#8217;s &#8217;999 Plan&#8217; Looks a Lot Like Sim City&#8217;s 999 Plan</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/13/herman-cains-999-plan-looks-a-lot-like-sim-citys-999-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Presidential hopeful Herman Cain has jumped to the top of Republican polls thanks to a bold tax scheme called the &#8220;999 Plan.&#8221; But it&#8217;d be even bolder if Sim City hadn&#8217;t come up with the idea eight years ago.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&amp;blog=5290478&amp;post=99758&amp;subd=timenerdworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Don&#8217;t Video Game Companies Pay More Taxes?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/14/why-dont-video-game-companies-pay-more-taxes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=97012</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the debate over the importance of tax rebates and incentives currently flooding the political world, it&#8217;s somewhat surprising to discover that one of the &#8220;most highly subsidized business in the United States,&#8221; according to a former Treasury Department worker turned tax professor, is also one of the few true success stories in media [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&amp;blog=5290478&amp;post=97012&amp;subd=timenerdworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bullfrog&#8217;s &#8216;Syndicate&#8217; Reimagined as First-Person Shooter, Coming &#8216;Early 2012&#8242;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/12/bullfrogs-syndicate-reimagined-as-first-person-shooter-coming-early-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=96621</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember Syndicate, the PC-based neo-noir cyberpunk-strategy game from long-ago developer Bullfrog, the game studio captained by Peter &#8220;Fable&#8221; Molyneux? To paraphrase Stephen King, sometimes this stuff comes back&#8230;as a first-person shooter. It&#8217;s practically a truism for contemporary remakes. Take 2K Marin&#8217;s XCOM, for instance.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&amp;blog=5290478&amp;post=96621&amp;subd=timenerdworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Psychology: We Play Video Games to Chase Our &#8216;Ideal Selves&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/04/psychology-we-play-video-games-to-chase-our-ideal-selves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What exactly is it about video games that holds so much drawing power? Last year, a staggering 500 million video games were sold throughout the world, and, despite some recent slippage earlier in May, the industry as a whole remains one of the biggest, most lucrative markets out there.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&amp;blog=5290478&amp;post=92858&amp;subd=timenerdworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Super iam8bit&#8217; Art Show to Give Video Game Icons the Fine Art Treatment</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/22/super-iam8bit-art-show-to-give-video-game-icons-the-fine-art-treatment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Narcisse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long before the Smithsonian or the Supreme Court got into the mix, one kick-ass gallery show was letting everybody know about the artfulness of video games. The &#8220;iam8Bit&#8221; exhibitions have taken icons like Mario, Pac-Man and Sonic and handed them over to artists who&#8217;d radically interpret the characters and their worlds.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&amp;blog=5290478&amp;post=91407&amp;subd=timenerdworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Infinite Possibilities: Ken Levine Talks About the New &#8216;BioShock&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/08/infinite-possibilities-ken-levine-talks-about-the-new-bioshock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Narcisse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very few games have the kind of anticipation surrounding them that BioShock Infinite does. The first BioShock came out in 2007 and got hailed as a modern-day classic almost immediately for the way it wove character development, environmental design and philosophical underpinnings into a chilling and hypnotic experience.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&amp;blog=5290478&amp;post=89487&amp;subd=timenerdworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Supreme Court, Here&#8217;s Who&#8217;s Really Playing Video Games</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/07/dear-supreme-court-heres-whos-really-playing-video-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Narcisse</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=89249</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re a week gone from the Supreme Court&#8217;s historic ruling on Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, which declared that video games should enjoy the same protections as other forms of art. Like the ruling in the 1952 Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson case did for film, the Brown decision moves video games from being categorized [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&amp;blog=5290478&amp;post=89249&amp;subd=timenerdworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Violent Video Games: The Top 8 Big Money Franchises</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/06/28/violent-video-games-the-top-8-big-money-franchises/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In observance of the Supreme Court&#8217;s 7-2 decision to treat video games to the same First Amendment protection as art, music, and movies, here&#8217;s a look at some of the biggest names in violent game franchises.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&amp;blog=5290478&amp;post=88230&amp;subd=timenerdworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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