Topps hits rock bottom forcing baseball card companies
to rethink attitude
Baseball card sales have been declining by about 15 percent
annually for nearly a decade, and Major League Baseball says
its licensing revenue from cards today is about one-third of
what it was in 1991.
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A sense of adventure
Rich Early has understood the intrigue of fantasy and
escapism since he began collecting comic books as an
8-year-old boy.
Now a grown man with 13 years of experience in the business,
he’s finally able to expand that same sense of adventure for
his customers.
The owner of Paradox Comics-N-Cards recently finished adding
1,000 square feet to his store at 26 Roberts St. in Fargo.
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Xbox murder trial to begin
The trial of three defendants accused of killing six people
over an Xbox is set to begin next week. The defendants are
accused of beating six acquaintances to death with aluminum
baseball bats during an attempt to reclaim an Xbox that was
left behind after one defendant was kicked out of a house he
had been squatting in.
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Official Neverwinter Nights 2 Web Site Goes Live
Atari, Inc and Obsidian Entertainment today announced that
the official web site for the highly-anticipated Neverwinter
Nights 2, http://www.nwn2.com, has gone live. Developed by
Obsidian Entertainment for the Windows platform and set for
a September 2006 release, Neverwinter Nights 2 is set in the
popular DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Forgotten Realms universe created
by Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. and
will transport players back to the embattled city of
Neverwinter.
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X-Men game bridges the gap between the second and
third film
After two incredibly successful installments of the X-Men
Legends franchise, Activision has decided to take a
different tack with its latest title. Instead of using the
group based RPG dynamic, X-Men: The Official Game is a
full-fledged action game that spans the time between the
second and third films. Focusing on three fan favorites --
Wolverine, Nightcrawler, and Iceman -- X-Men fills in some
much needed backstory while still promising plenty of mutant
mayhem.
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The Godfather on PS2 Reviewed
So, The Godfather. Another legendary feature film butchered
as a game in order to milk an already successful franchise?
No.
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Nintendo DS Opera browser coming to Japan
Nintendo's Wi-Fi connection for its DS portable gaming
system has been steadily growing in popularity since
inception seven months ago. Hot titles like Mario Kart DS,
Animal Crossing: Wild Worlds, and Metroid Prime: Hunters
have led people to connect with others all across the globe,
and you'll soon be able to connect to the web in the same
way you do on your PC, a date has been set for the Opera web
browser for the Nintendo DS.
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Brain training takes aging Japan by storm
Tamako Kondo says 10 minutes of exercise every morning keeps
her fit.
But the 80-year-old doesn't hit the treadmill or take
aerobics classes. Instead, she sits at a desk, pencil in
hand, and tackles simple arithmetic and other quizzes, part
of a "brain training" program that has taken Japan by storm.
Bookshops now have separate sections for workbooks with the
exercises and video game versions are selling like hot cakes
among the growing ranks of older Japanese who hope the
drills will reinvigorate their gray matter.
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Nintendo DS can shake its tailfeather with new rumble
pak
The Nintendo DS is quickly growing in popularity, especially
given its Wi-Fi capabilities allowing you to visit other
fictional characters in Animal Crossing: Wild Worlds or
blast them into oblivion with Metroid Prime: Hunters. We've
just heard about the Opera web browser peripheral, and now
Nintendo is releasing yet another add-on for us: the Rumble
Pak.
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Nintendo to release Sudoku game for DS handheld
Nintendo on Monday announced that it will release Sudoku
Gridmaster for the Nintendo DS on June 26.
The Nintendo DS version will allow owners to write numbers
on the system's touch screen on more than 400 puzzles.
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