To some degree, the time people were using to play first-person shooters on consoles has been sucked up by people playing Words With Friends or Temple Run 2 on their mobile phones.

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He was playing Words With Friends.

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With members of his late father's band, Egypt 80, playing alongside younger musicians and with the words "FELA LIVES" tattooed across his back, Seun Kuti made world music that completely transcended the term: utterly African, yet thoroughly cosmopolitan.

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Nobody ever grew up dreaming of playing in a stadium with the words "Wells Fargo" on it.

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Will I be ostracized for playing Angry Birds or Words with Friends?

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Beach points out the future of turn-based strategy gaming is already playing out in other casual games like "Words With Friends, " where players take turns playing a "Scrabble"-like game with opponents.

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In other words, Millennium is at least playing with a good hand.

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Take any introductory marketing class and you'll learn the early adopters -- in other words, the nerds who like playing with the very latest stuff -- set trends and influence others.

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In other words, Dido is playing a sneaky game of deception with her listeners.

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If we are all as concerned as we claim to be about the staggering amount of debt our country has run up, we all need to get real about numbers and words, acknowledge that we have choices, and quit playing politics with our future prosperity.

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