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	<title>Crikey &#187; gaming</title>
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		<title>Why I kept playing: confessions of a video game addict</title>
		<link>http://kotaku.com/5384643/i-kept-playing--the-costs-of-my-gaming-addiction</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[EverQuest]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sure, it's funny to laugh at the geeky online gamers spending hours (or days) glued to their screens, but for some, it's a serious addiction with serious consequences. One such gamer has written an excellent piece detailing the destructive toll his addiction to EverQuest took on his life.]]></description>
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		<title>Will the music video game survive The Beatles: Rock Band?</title>
		<link>http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/impressions/2009/09/08/dont-let-me-down</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<em>The Beatles: Rock Band</em> is make or break time for the music video game. With a budget of close to $US100 million to make, can the investment pay off? asks <b>Harold Goldberg</b>]]></description>
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		<title>Gaming&#8217;s new frontier: social networking</title>
		<link>http://bx.businessweek.com/age-of-gaming/view?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ihavenet.com%2FSocial-Games-The-Industry-New-Wild-West.html</link>
		<comments>http://bx.businessweek.com/age-of-gaming/view?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ihavenet.com%2FSocial-Games-The-Industry-New-Wild-West.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Traditional video games take years to develop and market. Which is why social gaming (think, at a basic level, Scrabble over Facebook) is so appealing. Quick and cheap to build and with a massive potential player base.]]></description>
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		<title>Gaming the health system: rational response to bad policy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/25/gaming-the-health-system-is-a-rational-response-to-bad-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/25/gaming-the-health-system-is-a-rational-response-to-bad-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VIC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Kennett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marie Tehan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hospital administrators who push the purchasing system to its limits have little to gain personally. They are merely trying to keep their hospitals afloat, says <b>Tom Keating</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Spotlight on Pansy Ho</title>
		<link>http://www.portfolio.com/executives/features/2008/04/14/Profile-of-Casino-Owner-Pansy-Ho</link>
		<comments>http://www.portfolio.com/executives/features/2008/04/14/Profile-of-Casino-Owner-Pansy-Ho#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 04:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<i>Portfolio</i> looks at Pansy Ho, daughter of gaming billionaire Stanley Ho and the brains behind a new $1.2 billion megacasino in Macao.]]></description>
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		<title>MGM Mirage casino should &#8216;disengage&#8217; from controversial Pansy Ho</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/20/mgm-mirage-casino-should-disengage-from-controversial-pansy-ho/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/20/mgm-mirage-casino-should-disengage-from-controversial-pansy-ho/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 03:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Crown Casino]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Jersey gaming regulators have advised that MGM Mirage should be “directed to disengage” from its Macao joint venture partner, Pansy Ho. Where does that leave James Packer?]]></description>
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		<title>We need to wind back the pub’s pokie addiction, too</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/22/we-need-to-wind-back-the-pubs-pokie-addiction-too/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/22/we-need-to-wind-back-the-pubs-pokie-addiction-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nsw state government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poker machines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is common for the industry to present itself as a folksy, struggling community level business, providing mostly harmless fun to the suburban working class. Unfortunately the reality is vastly different, writes <b>Charles Livingston</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Blow up the pokies&#8230; but not at the expense of the pub</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/19/blow-up-the-pokies-but-not-at-the-expense-of-the-pub/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/19/blow-up-the-pokies-but-not-at-the-expense-of-the-pub/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Steve Fielding’s taxation schedule and his plans to modify poker machines would devastate pubs and clubs and wipe many of them out of existence, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Rudd needs to play cards right on Pay TV gambling</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/22/rudd-needs-to-play-cards-right-on-pay-tv-gambling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/22/rudd-needs-to-play-cards-right-on-pay-tv-gambling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Opposition will today challenge Kevin Rudd to walk the walk on gambling by banning pay-TV gambling services, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Crown gambling punts on the margin</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/16/crown-gambling-punts-on-the-margin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/16/crown-gambling-punts-on-the-margin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Packer's Crown gambling operation is now also in the finance business, writes <b>Glenn Dyer</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Have Packer&#8217;s US gaming plans cooled?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/26/have-packers-us-gaming-plans-cooled/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/26/have-packers-us-gaming-plans-cooled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crown Casino]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has the worldwide credit crisis hit James Packer's gaming and gambling business? <b>Glenn Dyer</b> writes.]]></description>
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