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Who is going to be up for a Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 midnight launch !?

NEWS

-No Doubt Sues Activision Over Band Hero Likenesses, Activision Threatens Counter-Suit

-Video Games Banned in Venezuela. All of Them.

-Game Boy Inducted into National Toy Hall of Fame

-Borderlands Dev Randy Pitchford: Valve are Selfish Fanboys

Bargain Gaming Presents… Killer Holiday Deals

-Wal-Mart Offering Xbox 360 Arcade and $100 Wal-Mart Gift Card for $200

-Rock Band 2 Special Edition Bundle $99 Through Year’s End

-Spend $20 at Old Navy, Get LEGO Rock Band Free

-170 DSi bundle with 5 games

Back to News…

-Nintendo Can Suck It For Badmouthing the Nintendo 64

-Modern Warfare 2 is Kind of Popular – Pre-order bonus, please go away!

-It’s a Slow News Week, so Hideo Kojima is Judging a Twilight Fan Art Contest

-Epic games released Unreal Engine

-Super Street Fighter brings back beating up cars

-Microsoft Employee Poopoos Idea of Facebook on Game Systems… wait, what?

-IGN-owned Direct2Drive calls Steam a “trojan horse”, Won’t sell MW2

-More Modern Warfare 2 PC hatorade

-Age Of Conan Devs Creating Snowboarding MMO

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