In early morning trade, RIM was up close to 14 percent, while HPQ was up close to 3 percent.

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There were probably few buy and hold investors left by the time the market instead recovered to close up 2.3% for the year.

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Fable 2 let players choose their sexuality, and pre-EA BioWare included a lesbian character in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, a game that never stirred up even close to the amount of controversy Mass Effect 3 drummed up.

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