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[Best Syndication News] Movie Gallery Inc. has filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy proceedings. This reorganization will cause the company to close 760 Movie Gallery, Hollywood Video, and Game Crazy stores across the United States. Stores in Canada are not affected by the restructuring.

The store closures are happening because they have not been profitable. There will remain 1,906 stores in the U.S., including 1,111 Movie Gallery, 545 Hollywood Video and 250 Game Crazy store locations that will continue to operate, however the corporation warns that they will more than likely will be closing more stores during the Chapter 11 process.

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[Best Syndication News] Every kids ultimate dream job, heck probably just about anyone's dream job. Sure beats flipping burgers at the fast food joint. This is your chance to win big, a dream job as a game tester for Sony's PlayStation plus an additional $5,000 sign on.

Sony announced the new reality show “The Tester” which will air for free on the PlayStation Network beginning on February 18th. The show is set up with 11 gamers that will compete for to win a job as an official PlayStation® game tester. They will have elimination challenges, just like they do on every other reality TV show. The competition will last for eight episodes were the gamers will live together under one roof and fight for their chance at the dream job of becoming a video game tester.

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[Best Syndication News] Sears has partnered with Gazelle to issue gift cards in exchange for your old electronic equipment. Sears electronic trade in program is a further expansion of Gazelle who is the ones that have developed the idea of giving cash back for used digital cameras, cellphones, laptops, mp3 players, video games, PDAs , camcorders, GPS devices, gaming consoles, and more.

Depending on what condition the electronic is in is the amount of the gift card that will be issued. If you don't want a gift card from Sears you can get cash issued from Gazelle as well.

The process is pretty simple. You go to the website you tell them what you have, who you are, and the condition of the electronic that you want to trade in. Based on that they will give you an estimate of the amount that they will offer you for the trade in electronic items. If you want to do it then they will send you a box to send in the items at no cost to you, it is figured into the trade-in amount. Then when the box arrives you send in the item that you are trading in for cash. Once they receive the electronic device that you want to trade in, they will inspect it to see if it matches the condition that you told them. If it matches then they will send you the gift card or cash in the amount that was quoted to you.

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[Best Syndication News] You may have recently purchased or are getting a Nintendo Wii for Christmas but you have realized that you need more than just the Wii Sports game that comes with the console. Do you need to spend $50 to get the best games around? The answer is probably not.

The reality is that video games often are released at a higher price and the longer that the game has been released the lower the price to buy it. This is a similar format to DVD movies. Eventually you won't be having as many people that will want to buy it. So if you are not in a big hurry there are many inexpensive Wii Games on the market to purchase new.

The bestselling games currently according to Amazon are as follows:

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[Best Syndication News] The holiday shopping has begun, with Nintendo reported that they have sold an estimated 550,000 Wii consoles during Thanksgiving week. This may be in part to the newly lowered price of $199 which is a $50 price reduction that began at the end of September.

Many of the retailers are selling bundles of the Nintendo Wii game console with things such as the Wii Fit accessory and games, and extra video games with the unit. So take your time to consider if you want extra remotes, or the games, or the fitness, as the prices as a bundle can usually save you around $10 - $20.

One thing that you need to consider when you shop around for the Ninetendo Wii is looking for a deal with the sale on the Wii games themselves. Wal-Mart for example is selling 2 packs of Wii video games for $30, that is $15 per game. Usually you can expect to pay $20 for the older games new, and $40 - $50 for newly released Wii Games. If you watch for sales at ToysRus you can find that they often will sell one at regular price and get the second one for half off. They also have buy 2 get 1 free at times for the $20 games.