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Submission + - PS3 tops Wii in Japan for first time

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 01, 2007 @01:51PM

An anonymous reader writes: Sony, which launched the consoles a year ago, sold 183,217 PS3 in Japan in the four weeks to November 25, topping sales of 159,193 Wii consoles, according to game magazine publisher Enterbrain, a key watcher of trends in the sector. Analysts said the latest data was encouraging for the prospects of the PS3, but it was too early to paint a rosy picture for the Sony machine.

Submission + - Jack Valenti (former MPAA head) Suffers Stroke

Submitted by

Seumas

on Tuesday March 27, 2007 @04:03PM

Seumas writes: "Jack Valenti, who served as president of the Motion Picture Association of America for nearly four decades, has suffered a stroke and has been taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, officials said. Valenti was central to creating the MPAA rating system — now G, PG, PG-13, R and NC-17 — as a way to rate films as appropriate for certain age groups."

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