The recent launch of Microsoft Kinect has come with lots of fanfare and positive buzz from reviewers wowed by the magic of the new motion-based control game system addition to the Xbox 360.

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Customers can order a PC-based system and pick from licensed game packs from companies like Atari, Midway, Sega, and Capcom, or plus in their own Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 and use the cabinet and its large screen and durable controls for a retro gaming experience.

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Currently, the top two teams are selected based on a season-long ranking system and placed in a championship bowl game.

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The government tries to adjust its payments based on the perceived patient risk, but the insurance industry has figured out a way to game that system and extract even more profit by focusing on the least costly patients for a given medical condition, one recent academic study found.

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Sony seems like they were too scared of being called outright thefts by taking the system for their own, but ring-out based play would work much better for this type of game.

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Launching on Feb. 4 is Fire Emblem Awakening, a fantasy turn-based strategy game for Nintendo 3DS. On the same day, Nintendo will release a special bundle of the Nintendo 3DS system that has Fire Emblem Awakening pre-installed on the hardware.

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He went to work for a few hours studying the cards in an Ontario tic-tac-toe game and was able to figure out how to beat the system and win almost all the time, based only on what was visible on unscratched cards.

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