The News Review:

- Can Microsoft Win the nline Game?
- Are nline Games Too Nitty on Stars and Full Tilt?
- Exploring ‘Free Realms’
- WTA Tour Wraps ‘Making of a Hero’ nline Film Series and Game

Can Microsoft Win the nline Game?
TechNewsWorld
My guess is that total XBL revenues are close to $700 million annually right now and I would bet that one-third of new Xbox 360 purchasers join as paying Xbox Live members. So it will only take another three years of normal growth without price increases for Microsoft to get to $1 billion annually” Pachter explained. Adding to Microsoft’s bottom line was the announcement last week that.

Are nline Games Too Nitty on Stars and Full Tilt?
Poker News Daily
The wild action these players created is simply a thing of the past. Players that haven?t lost their bankrolls are simply getting better and better at poker. With popular community forums and online poker schools there have never been as many immediate resources to become a better player quicker in the history of the industry. The blind structures of the cash games might be outdated for today?s action-centric culture when combined with the ability to bring in big profits from VIP programs or rakeback. Maybe this article is simply a call for a return to ?the good old days of Party Poker in the USA? when table VPIPs at full ring were 35+ but the fact remains that many think the full ring (and even 6max tables) are too nitty for their own good and that the games are drying up ? if they aren?t dried up already ? on these two sites. Many feel moving to one of the lesser trafficked sites like iPoker or Cake can really be a benefit in terms of easier competition and more fish. thers will say that even the games on Cake for example aren?t what they were a couple of years ago at the higher limits and the perception of massive fish at those sites is simply false.

Exploring ‘Free Realms’
USA Today
Free Realms a new online game from the makers of EverQuest is scheduled to begin public testing on Friday. And on Friday morning Game Hunters will be giving away 20000 access codes to the test period. (Check back here tomorrow for more details. )  The game (from Sony nline.

WTA Tour Wraps ‘Making of a Hero’ nline Film Series and Game
Tennis-X.com
  The film series — set to launch in the coming weeks — marks the third stage of the Tour’s global marketing campaign “Looking for a Hero?” and represents the central piece of its digital component which will also include an online game and viral videos. js’>The “Making of a Hero” online films will add a significant push to the Tour’s global marketing efforts in the digital space and will be featured on the Tour’s soon-to-be-relaunched website.
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