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Amazon Joins the Secondhand Game Market

If you’re done playing with the latest video game you picked up a week or two ago and it’s just sitting around collecting dust, there’s been no shortage of what to do with ‘em as of late. You could can lend them out to friends (or if it’s a copy of Castlevania: Judgment, your enemies), you could donate the game to charity, or you could always just head on down to the local GameStop and cash it in towards another game. Of course, if you can’t just bring yourself to actually get up off the couch and drive somewhere, there’s now another player in the secondhand market: Amazon.

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Xbox LIVE Gets a Case of Weekend Hiccups

Ah yes. The weekend. That special time away from the daily grind of the work week where you can get away from the ol’ 9 to 5 job and hang out online with friends for a good game of Gears of War 2. At least that’s the way it should have been for Xbox 360 owners this weekend. Unfortunately, the service had other ideas.

Starting late Thursday night and lasting through last night, the Xbox LIVE service started suffering from sporadic shutdowns, disconnecting thousands of gamers at random intervals. And while the Microsoft engineers were hard at work to get everything up and running again, every time things seemed fixed, the disconnects started back up again.

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