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Old 2012-11-16, 16:47   Link #24677
Vexx
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Age: 66
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Originally Posted by ogon_bat View Post
"When in Rome, Do As the Romans Do"
Exactly.


In other news: Okay, I'm a life long gamer (even before Pong and Spacewars, there were text adventures, I was hooked in 1975 playing "Star Trek" on a computer that used scrolling paper printouts to update the game status.) but this is an impressive factoid.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/...first-24-hours

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Here's a big number for you today: $500 million.
That's how much the latest installment of the "Call Of Duty" video game, "Black Ops II," raked in the 24 hours following its release.
"With first day sales of over half a billion dollars worldwide, we believe Call of Duty is the biggest entertainment launch of the year for the fourth year in a row," Bobby Kotick, CEO, Activision Blizzard, said in a statement. "Life-to-date sales for the Call of Duty franchise have exceeded worldwide theatrical box office receipts for Harry Potter and Star Wars, the two most successful movie franchises of all time."
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