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I hate to be a broken record of the whole developer/journalist thing that I started last week but the "Sore Thumbs" blog that Dan Hsu and Crispin Boyer, both formerly of Electronic Gaming Monthly, have been writing over the course of the last couple of weeks is simply a gold mine of superb reading material.

I'm not in the United States of America, and I'm not in Canada (so, it's really a country?1) so my week is 5 days long. I'm jealous.

Given that Take-Two and Rockstar's next step in expanding the Grand Theft Auto empire is a move onto Nintendo DS with the upcoming Chinatown Wars, what's the likelihood that GTA IV or another franchise installment might appear on the Wii?

Continuing strong sales of Grand Theft Auto IV, along with Top Spin 3 and Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution propelled Take-Two to a new record quarter, the fifth one in a row that it has beaten its own expectations.

A new Unigine-powered "Tropics" demo is released and available for download now. Key features of the demo are dynamic sky with light scattering, live water with a surf zone and caustics, special materials for vegetation, and real-time ambient occlusion. It supports all modern graphical APIs: DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL. Both Windows and Linux version are available.

Gaming social network Raptr, which lets users share game stats, achievements and other data about their playing habits with friends, launched an open beta today, along with an alpha version of its Mac client software.

Educational software developer Knowledge Adventure announced a partnership with publisher Majesco to release Math Blaster In The Prime Adventure for the Nintendo DS.

Internet-connected game consoles will generate $8 billion in revenue for the Big Three console manufacturers through online content and services in 2013, says a new Parks Associates report.

Electronic Arts and casual publisher and developer PopCap Games extended their licensing agreement granting EA Mobile exclusive worldwide mobile publishing rights to Bejeweled and Bejeweled 2 through 2010.

GameCareerGuide.com, which runs a weekly game design challenge for aspiring game developers, has announced a new challenge for this week about scripting a mini-quest for a fantasy role-playing game.