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GameStop Brings in 15K to Manage Holiday Rush
GameStop’s booting up for the Black Friday rush, hiring some 15,000 temps between now and Christmas Eve to manage the predicted retail onslaught. The temps will fill positions in 4,300 stores, briefly filling the company’s total headcount by 46 percent, and the “in-store game advisor headcount” by 78 percent. GameStop said the figures are consistent…
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Fifty Bucks and a Meal Spins Your Wedding Reception, DJ Hero-Style
It’s hilarious this dude’s in North Carolina, because every Baptist wedding reception I ever attended in my home state involved “Electric Slide,” which is not included in DJ Hero. Nor, for that matter, is the small dish of butter mints. Anyway, a Mr. “[email protected]” is offering his services and his DJ Hero kit to rotate…
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Football Fans — Here’s Collinsworth NFL 10
Cris Collinsworth took over as the color analyst for the Madden franchise last year. John Madden retired from broadcasting this year. As this video suggests, it’s only a matter of time before the ex-Bengals receiver takes over the title Collinsworth (as voiced by NYC comedian Rob Lathan) has to start out somewhere, so here he…
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Dragon Age: Origins, Rock Band: Beatles and More Left 4 Dead In Today’s Pumpkins
Halloween is so close I can almost taste the zombie makeup and candy corn. Here’s a few more pumpkins to go in the patch. The Dragon Age: Origins entry comes from Cameron Vetter’s girlfriend (and man has she got some skills). The second Left 4 Dead pumpkin we’ve seen so far comes our way from…
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Xbox Live Exec: No Cloud for Near Future
A streaming games service – “cloud gaming,” as the buzzphrase has it – is on Microsoft’s horizon but, for the near-term, it’s not something that can be reasonably delivered to a local-machine user, said the Europe boss for Xbox Live. Speaking at the London Games Festival, Jerry Johnson told an audience at the British Academy…
By Owen Good
