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Nintendo has just announced that it is teaming up with the purse rental site From Bags to Riches to promote the DS. From Bags to Riches customers visiting the site to rent a Coach, Gucci, Juicy Couture, Louis Vuitton, Prada or Tory Burch bag may take advantage of a free, 30-day DS rental. Once the rental period is done, you return the purse and bag to From Bags to Riches. The promotion has just begun, and will run until the end of 2008.

There are some limitations. The company isn’t going to allow you to choose any DS and any purse. You first visit the promotion page to look over the DS combination packages - metallic silver and New Super Mario Bros, metallic rose and Mystery Case Files: MillionHeir, crimson and black and Brain Age 1 & 2 or Crosswords DS, cobalt and black and Nintendogs or onyx and Mario Kart DS. You then go down and click on one of the six purse brands featured below. When you choose a purse, there will be an option to select your DS rental…

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With console games costing $40 or more, rental services are becoming a popular option for gamers. While rental services, such as Gamefly and Blockbuster, are reliable options, many people also can’t afford monthly services fees (dern gas prices). This is where public libraries can come in quite handy.

On a whim, after purchasing a new console, I decided to check the online library search engine for my local library. After all, free is always the way to go. To my surprise, I found 78 Wii games, 53 Xbox 360 games and 35 PS3 games. Among the games were recent titles including Order Up (Wii), Soul Calibur IV (PS3) and Zoids Assault (Xbox 360). After checking out a title, I learned the lending period was 14 days, allowing enough time to really enjoy the game.

So with many libraries now catering to gamers, it is worth finding out the best way to search for and find games. You never know what kind of treasure you’ll find…

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Home Media Magazine, which covers primarily home movie and videogame news, had an interesting lede for an article posted on August 9, 2007, about 300 DVD sales:

It looked like a video game and felt like a video game, so it isn’t surprising that Warner Home Video would score big with the simultaneous DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of 300.

The article, by Thomas K. Arnold, so blatantly credits the movie as being like a videogame, yet videogame movies rarely do well (or a are usually not very good). Arnold seems to have missed that the movie actually - and intentionally - looks like the graphic novel by Frank Miller on which it was based. We gamers wish a videogame-based movie would be at least as good as 300.

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AP’s LA bureau reported that Blockbuster announced on Monday (June 18, 2007) it will offer primarily Blu-Ray HD for it’s DVD inventory.

Blockbuster had been renting with both HD DVD and Blue-Ray HD DVDs in select store, with 70% of customers choosing Blu-Ray movies.

Blockbuster is still being cautious, allowing the 250 stores and web site will continue to offer…

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