Word: platforms
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...complacent with the triumph. “Our focus will now be on how to turn the electoral victories into concrete policies that will bring a new direction,” Lesser said. Despite the GOP’s defeat, Kwong said voters had mostly agreed with the Republican platform on specific policy issues on the ballot. “If you look at the single issues...the voters were all in tune with the Republican Party,” he said, specifically citing anti-affirmative action initiatives and same-sex marriage bans. “They just weren?...
...similar story across the river in Indiana's conservative Ninth District, where former Congressman Baron Hill campaigned on a solidly Democratic platform - against a gay marriage amendment, against the war, and for expanded health care and increasing the minimum wage - and defeated the incumbent, hard-right social conservative Mike Sodrel...
...publishers are increasingly going to multiplatform strategies for big titles, as production costs have soared and the market has splintered along geographic lines: Nintendo dominates Japan, Sony fares well in Europe and Microsoft racks up its strongest sales in North America. That means fewer must-have titles for one platform, an ominous sign for Sony with the priciest box on the shelves. Moreover, games such as Brain Age and Guitar Hero, which attract the mainstream audience, often don't require the most advanced hardware-it's their novelty, storytelling and fun factor that count...
...launch of the Xbox Live Marketplace video store is part of Microsoft's current strategy to draw non-gamers to the platform, migrate "version 1" Xbox users to the newer Xbox 360 system and keep the 360 competitive with the upcoming Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii consoles...
...Harvard and Minnesota, you’re in two different worlds,” Puchtel says. “In a big Division I university, you play sports and you’re put on a platform; here, you play sports and its cool—but not to that degree...