Times may be tough but there’s a silver lining to the recession: if fewer people spend, then companies start slashing prices to get rid of all the products they’ve foolishly stockpiled. The result: ultra cheap consoles!

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A teenager has been jailed indefinitely after being convicted of committing sex attacks on four women. Ryan Chinnery, 19, chav, prowled the streets in his car looking for victims after “obsessively” playing Grand Theft Auto for “hours on end”, as well as doing other utterly irrelevant things like indulging in an unhealthy amount of pornography and getting high on a cocktail of cannabis and alcohol.

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It’s Friday, and it’s lunchtime! Put down your pens, pretend you filed your reports: the weekend starts right now, with our midday medley of all the news so far this morning.
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Nintendo legend, Shigeru Miyamoto, has described the development process for Wii Music as being “relatively easy” in a recent interview. He explained that normally he has to coax his team into inserting silliness, but this time the silliness – including a cat suit and a cheerleader instrument – came of its own accord.

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Left4Dead is a new co-op survival shooter from the makers of Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike that’s coming out on PC and Xbox 360 in the next fortnight. Yesterday afternoon, the first demo went live, giving those who pre-ordered the game a chance to try it out. We loaded up our 12 gauge to pop some undead skulls and see if the game lives up to the hype…

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If you’re holding out for the Nintendo Wii to get a good honest, credit crunching price cut, you may be waiting a while. Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata has said that he thinks price cuts are a “mistake”.

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A new report from Verdict Research has revealed that video games sales in the UK are set to top music and video sales for the very first time this year. Consumer spending on games is expected to rise by 42% to reach £4.64 billion, leaving the combined force of music and video at £4.46bn.

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Gaming power-addicts Alienware just outed their latest ultra-powerful M17 laptop. It’s 50% quicker than the last model, and designed purely for high energy, high resolution, high speed gaming.

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