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If you own an Xbox 360 then you couldn’t have helped but notice the recent news that Microsoft has just banned nearly one million Xbox Live accounts for using modified consoles to play pirated games.

So, in between getting a new 360 and googling upskirt pictures of Lily Allen,  lets consider the ramifications of this mass banning.

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We’ve received reports of one stockist selling Modern Warfare 2 for £17.39 – or so they claim.

A quick bit of research later and this price excludes VAT. Still – £20.00 for this year’s most-awaited game isn’t much. Find out how to get MW2 for less here.

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Can MPs and videogames live together in peace?

Normally if you mention BAFTA and videogames in the same sentence you’d be met with howls of derision and most likely a smack in the chops. Which is no surprise if you’ve ever watched the videogame BAFTAs on TV.

However on the October 27th BAFTA Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft and the shadow minister for culture will be speaking at the London Games Conference – good news for the UK games industry?

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I wouldn’t dream of featuring a “collector’s edition” game on Leet Blog. Metal boxes worth £20, cheap plastic figures priced £30 more and Halo 3 helmets for god-knows-how-much.

But Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 deserves a special mention – for some wise man has figured out how to save £50 on it (no – it wasn’t me).

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So it was bye-bye to my Nintendo Wii today after I finally lost it with the party box.

Find out why I killed my Wii and what I’m going to replace it with…

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Like most of us your wallet may be feeling the pinch, no thanks to the credit crunch.

That’s why I’ve decided to start up a new series of features called credit crunch gaming. The premise is simple: play an old game instead of forking out £40 for a new one. So what have I been playing this month?

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