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More than 1.2 million copies of the critically-acclaimed game were sold through in its first week on shelves at European retail, making it the fastest start in the history of the award winning franchise.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/1330961550</guid><pubDate>Thu, 9 Oct 2008 15:04:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2K Sports&apos; MLB(R) Front Office Manager Takes Fantasy Baseball to a New Level (Business Wire)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/081009/20081009005602.html?.v=1</link><description>NEW YORK----2K Sports, the sports publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. , today announced that MLB Front Office Manager, the next step in competitive fandom for baseball enthusiasts, will be available for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC this winter.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/2483838538</guid><pubDate>Thu, 9 Oct 2008 15:00:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Majesco Entertainment Announces &apos;Hot &apos;n&apos; Cold,&apos; the First Fully 3D Search and Find Adventure for Nintendo DS(TM) (PR Newswire)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/081009/ny37796.html?.v=1</link><description>Majesco Entertainment Company , an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, today announced Hot &apos;n&apos; Cold for Nintendo DS. 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