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		<title>Retail Review: Game Depot (Holyoke/Chicopee MA)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 05:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Skerritt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time this past week visiting gaming retail stores, and I&#8217;ve seen the difference between big and small when it comes to size&#8230; and when it comes to effort. Smaller stores give their customers excellent service in general, while the big stores sometimes don&#8217;t give much effort at all. It&#8217;s frustrating, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consoleation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3697949&#038;post=1508&#038;subd=consoleation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shooting Straight: E3 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 04:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Skerritt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I begin the process of planning and setting E3 appointments for this year, I can&#8217;t help but to think about how attending the show has always been such a goal of mine. I know that it&#8217;s old hat for many of my colleagues, and I understand that it&#8217;s a LOT of work for everyone&#8211; [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consoleation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3697949&#038;post=1505&#038;subd=consoleation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Consoleation Time Machine: When Collecting Isn&#8217;t Collecting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 05:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Skerritt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a wonderful and fortunate journey that I&#8217;ve been undertaking over the last couple of years in terms of building a library of older video games and consoles. I started in earnest to build my PlayStation 2 library about two years ago, while I was still living in Arizona. I added a few original [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consoleation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3697949&#038;post=1498&#038;subd=consoleation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stepping Forward</title>
		<link>http://consoleation.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/stepping-forward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 07:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Skerritt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[analysis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since 2008, when I first began looking at NPD data and writing summaries, I started to gain interest in sales analysis. Numbers go up, numbers go down. Sometimes there are patterns, and sometimes those patterns make it possible for people to make predictions about what might happen next. It can be a lot of guesswork, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consoleation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3697949&#038;post=1496&#038;subd=consoleation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Armchair Analysis Extra: Nintendo vs. The (Third-Party) World</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 08:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Skerritt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Call of Duty: Ghosts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After lots of speculation about Madden NFL 25 not seeing a Wii U release, Electronic Arts confirmed it via a recent statement (courtesy of Nintendo World Report): &#8220;We will not be releasing a Wii U version of Madden NFL in 2013. However, we have a strong partnership with Nintendo and will continue to evaluate opportunities for [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consoleation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3697949&#038;post=1488&#038;subd=consoleation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Because Nobody Asked: Nintendo&#8217;s Big Gamble</title>
		<link>http://consoleation.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/because-nobody-asked-nintendos-big-gamble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 06:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Skerritt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[News of Nintendo electing not to hold a press conference at E3 this year is getting all kinds of reactions across the internet. The two main camps that people are setting up in are these: Good move for Nintendo. Less money spent, plus Nintendo Direct events have basically replaced the traditional press event. Bad move [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consoleation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3697949&#038;post=1482&#038;subd=consoleation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>E3 2013: The Planning Begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 05:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Skerritt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Popzara Press]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very excited to announce that I&#8217;ll be attending this year&#8217;s Electronics Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles and covering the event for Popzara Press. This will be my third consecutive year at the event&#8211; my first was in 2011 as one of the three KmartGamer bloggers selected to attend, and my second was also on [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consoleation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3697949&#038;post=1480&#038;subd=consoleation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Consoleation Quickie: PlayStation Notwork</title>
		<link>http://consoleation.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/consoleation-quickie-playstation-notwork/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 06:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Skerritt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DLC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[updates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2010, when Sony announced that it was moving its PlayStation Store updates to Tuesdays from Thursdays, it seemed like a good idea. While the company claimed that the move had nothing to do with getting ahead of the Wednesday updates that the Xbox LIVE Marketplace has, beating Microsoft to the punch wasn&#8217;t a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consoleation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3697949&#038;post=1476&#038;subd=consoleation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Because Nobody Asked: Bringing the Arcade Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Skerritt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[consoles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I look back on nearly 41 years (the big day is April 22), I&#8217;ve been thinking about how cool it&#8217;s been to live through and experience certain events in their original contexts. In working to build my collection of older games and systems, I&#8217;m reminded of what I was doing and/or what life was [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consoleation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3697949&#038;post=1466&#038;subd=consoleation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Because Nobody Asked: We Still Don&#8217;t Get It</title>
		<link>http://consoleation.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/because-nobody-asked-we-still-dont-get-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 02:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Skerritt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adam Orth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[always online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a day Adam Orth has had. What was thought to be a relatively benign conversation on Twitter has blown up to a worldwide fiasco leaving Orth&#8217;s employer, Microsoft, with a damaged public image and leaving Orth under siege by press and message board posters. More than 50 websites have linked Orth&#8217;s comments about &#8220;always [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consoleation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3697949&#038;post=1464&#038;subd=consoleation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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