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May 11, 2008

"they have made the franchise a lucrative one"

The big news early last week was the opening round of sales figures for Grand Theft Auto IV - the latest videogame release which, inexplicably, warranted prime time news coverage.  Back around the last time a game release was front-page news, Richard Poplak penned a thoughtful piece pointing out that a few hundred million dollars in gross sales is slightly less impressive when the per-unit cost hovers around $75.

Posted at 11:01 AM in Marginalia |

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