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A report from TorrentFreak cites, amongst other statistics, the fact that the torrent file for the real time strategy Starcraft 2: The Wings of Liberty has been downloaded more than 2.3 million times since the game has been released in July of this year, leading to a total of 15.77 Petabytes of data downloaded.

This makes the game the most pirated so far this year, although by the end of the year Call of Duty: Black Ops, which has been recently released for the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the PC, could take the number one condition based on the interest players have shown since day, picking up more than 5 million legitimate copies in the first day on sale to make the most successful video game launch.
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It seems that Call of Duty: Black Ops is enough of a reason to commit armed robbery, as two thieves with semiautomatic weapons held up a local GameStop store and stole 100 copies of Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Activision's upcoming shooter, Call of Duty: Black Ops, is set to be one of the best selling games of all time, and will attract a lot of people, given the impressive features it will have, and because of the popularity of the previous game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
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A Canadian high schooler playing Warcraft III gloated a little too much over a recent victory, and his opponents found that so unsporting they decided to do something even more unsporting: track him down at lunch and beat his ass.
That's according to Vancouver authorities, who said the high schooler was confronted at lunch by four or five other guys, forced to kiss their feet, and then was beaten with batons, sustaining broken fingers.
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Report has suggested that hardware video game maker Microsoft is set to spend about 500 million dollars in order to provide marketing for Kinect, its Xbox 360 based motion tracking system, which is set to be launched on November 4 in the United States.

A news item in the New York Post says that the company has been working with Steven Spielberg on the pre launch media strategy.

The company has been enlisting companies like soft drink giant Pepsi, fast food chain Burger King and cereal brand Kellogg's to help the promotional effort.
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