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Downloaded singles 1.Low, Flo Rida featuring T-Pain 2.Apologize, Timbaland featuring OneRepublic 3.Love Song, Sara Bareilles 4.No One, Alicia Keys 5.Kiss Kiss, Chris Brown featuring T-Pain[ITUNES (DEC. 17)] Downloaded albums 1.Noel, Josh Groban 2.Sleep Through the Static, Jack Johnson 3.Let It Snow! EP, Michael Buble 4.8 Diagrams, Wu-Tang Clan 5.Dreaming Out Loud (bonus track version), OneRepublic[ITUNES (DEC. 17)] Downloaded TV episodes 1.The Girl Who Becomes America's Next Top Model, America's Next Top Model 2.Hi, Society, Gossip Girl 3.Peter's Daughter, Family Guy 4.Guitar Queer-O, South Park 5.Crash Into Me, Part II, Grey's Anatomy[ITUNES (DEC.

Downloaded singles 1.Low, Flo Rida featuring T-Pain 2.Love Song, Sara Bareilles 3.Apologize, Timbaland featuring OneRepublic 4.No One, Alicia Keys 5.Paralyzer, Finger Eleven[ITUNES (DEC. 20)] Downloaded albums 1.Growing Pains (bonus track version), Mary J. Blige 2.Lupe Fiasco's the Cool (deluxe version), Lupe Fiasco 3.Sleep Through the Static, Jack Johnson 4.Noel, Josh Groban 5.Little Voice, Sara Bareilles[ITUNES (DEC. 20)] Downloaded TV episodes 1.Guitar Queer-O, South Park 2.Peter's Daughter, Family Guy 3.The Girl Who Becomes America's Next Top Model, America's Next Top Model 4.Lois Kills Stewie, Family Guy 5.Hi, Society, Gossip Girl[ITUNES (DEC.

The first time Adam Wallis wanted a Wii, he sat outside for 12 hours on a bitterly cold Sunday in November while he waited for a Target in Glen Burnie to open its doors. The finger- and feet-numbing experience was worth it. The 23-year-old Abingdon resident and his two brothers each snagged a Wii, which had just been released, at $250 apiece - only to turn around and sell the extremely coveted Nintendo video-game machine on eBay for a tidy $600 profit. Little did he know that eight months later, he and his wife, Stephanie, would be itching to own their own Wii and finding it difficult to get their hands on the hot, hot, hot console.

Downloaded singles 1.Low, Flo Rida featuring T-Pain 2.No One, Alicia Keys 3.Apologize, Timbaland featuring OneRepublic 4.Kiss Kiss, Chris Brown featuring T-Pain 5.Clumsy, Fergie[ITUNES (NOV. 26)] Downloaded albums 1.Noel, Josh Groban 2.As I Am, Alicia Keys 3.Dreaming Out Loud (bonus track version), OneRepublic 4.Enchanted soundtrack, Various artists 5.August Rush soundtrack, Various artists[ITUNES (NOV. 26)] Downloaded TV episodes 1.Crash Into Me, Part 1, Grey's Anatomy 2.Lois Kills Stewie, Family Guy 3.Guitar Queer-O, South Park 4.Padra de Familia, Family Guy 5.The Girls Go to Shanghai, America's Next Top Model[ITUNES (NOV.

Mario is finally super again. In Super Mario Galaxy, the classic franchise is back and better than ever after years of so-so adventures. Galaxy nimbly walks a tightrope to give gamers just the right mix of substantial innovations and familiar features that have been built up over decades of past incarnations. Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo) Available on Nintendo Wii. Rated E for everyone. Retail price: $49.99.

Downloaded singles 1.Umbrella (radio edit), Rihanna featuring Jay-Z 2.Party Like a Rock Star, Shop Boyz 3.Makes Me Wonder, Maroon 5 4.You Give Love a Bad Name, Blake Lewis 5.This is My Now, Jordin Sparks [ITUNES (MAY 29)] Downloaded albums 1.It Won't be Soon Before Long, Maroon 5 2.Jordin Sparks - EP, Jordin Sparks 3.Blake Lewis - EP, Blake Lewis 4.Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Soundtrack, Hans Zimmer 5.Minutes to Midnight, Linkin Park [ITUNES (MAY 29)] Downloaded TV episodes 1.Through a Looking Glass, Lost 2.The Job, The Office 3.How to Stop an Exploding Man, Heroes 4.5:00 A.M.-6:00 A.M., 24 5.4:00 A.M.-5:00 A.M., 24 [ITUNES (MAY 29)

I'm not much around the kitchen. Neither is my 12-year-old son, Austin, who'd be content with ham and cheese three times a day. But the other night, we whipped up an amazing spaghetti in squid sauce, a zesty shrimp paella and, for dessert, cream puffs from scratch. And we didn't dirty a pan. We "cooked" on a video game called Cooking Mama: Cook Off, recently released for the Nintendo Wii. Austin had checked it out from our local library - libraries aren't just for books anymore - although he admitted he did so because it was the only game left.

Pokemons may look like cute, cuddly little monsters, but they can whup even Godzilla when it comes to sales. Since storming the U.S. toy industry last fall, all things Pokemon (pronounced poke-ee-mahn), the latest toy craze from Japan, have been emptying the wallets of pre-adolescent boys and girls (and their parents) nationwide.Here's how big it is:* Nintendo has sold 1.7 million of the Pokemon hand-held Gameboy video games (more than $45 million worth), making it the company's biggest seller ever.

Do you know Pikachu? The yellow, mouse-like monster (right) is the favorite critter of Nintendo's super-hot Game Boy game, "Pokemon."How hot is the game? Since Nintendo launched the game in the United States in September, about 2.4 million games have been sold. "Pokemon," which means "Pocket Monsters," is a video game from Japan.When the Yak visited Japan about a year and a half ago, everywhere he went, he saw kids playing with Pocket Monsters.Right now, there are two versions of the game to plug in to your Game Boy -- red and blue.

Is it live or is it Dreamcast?That's the question video gamers will be asking themselves when they see the eye-popping, 3-D animations on Sega's new Dreamcast console. Launched Thursday, it's the most hotly anticipated and elaborately hyped home game machine in years.If you haven't heard of Dreamcast, chances are you soon will. Sega, the No. 3 video game maker in the United States, has kicked off an aggressive $100 million advertising blitz in an in-your-face bid to win back gamers from rivals Sony and Nintendo -- pumping more than 900 commercials onto cable music channel MTV alone.

CONCERT Beach House: Baltimore's own Beach House is moving up in indie-pop world, recently garnering national attention and graduating to larger venues (like this week's show at Sonar). Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand boast an ethereal and slightly sleepy sound, so expect an extremely mellow affair. Show starts at 8 p.m. Wednesday. More: sonarbaltimore.com CIRCUS 'KOOZA': Bringing in clowns, acrobats and a 1,600-pound Wheel of Death, Cirque Du Soleil arrives this week to transform a Camden Yards parking lot into an avant-garde circus.

$49.99 for Nintendo Wii. Rated Teen. * 1/2 Aside from the party-centric Smash Bros. titles, fighting games have had a sketchy history on Nintendo systems since the Nintendo 64, and Castlevania: Judgment doesn't break that trend. Drawing together a roster of familiar characters from the decades-running Castlevania games, along with a few new faces, Judgment is a relatively simple one-on-one fighter - and not very good. Players can run around freely during matches, and in doing so often end up facing away from each other.

Nintendo Co.'s sales are speeding along faster than a getaway car, shrugging off economic woes as if they were bugs on the windshield. Its Wii video game console continues to be sold out in many stores. Sales of its DS hand-held console remain hot despite its being a four-year-old product, ancient by game-technology standards. Sales of the Wii Fit exercise game, launched in May, are on track to surpass those of one of 2008's best-selling titles, Grand Theft Auto IV, by the end of the year, according to projections by Wedbush Morgan Securities.

Jean Tyrrell wanted to find activities that would allow students in the autism program at Patterson Mill Middle/High School to be more physically active during the school day. After researching some ideas, Tyrrell said she purchased a Nintendo Wii video game console with a grant that she received. "The kids really like Wii," said Tyrrell, a physical-education teacher. "And I think it's great. It gives the children with autism an age-appropriate leisure activity to do." Since the game was purchased, the children have all learned to play it, said Carolyn Trovinger, who teaches the middle school autism program.

Claire Carton is pretty sure her husband owns "every video game known to man" and that they're all named the same thing: Guns of War. Not surprisingly, one of the few games Carton likes herself, her husband can't get into. "What's the point of the Sims game?" he's always asking. "To have the nicest house," she says, to which he concludes: "That's so stupid." Gender disparity, it's easy to see, is alive and well in the video game world, evident in every explosion, every bloodletting, every bosomy sidekick.

Facebreaker (Electronic Arts) For Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 platforms. Rated Teen. Retail $49.99. ** games EA Sports' new marketing campaign is predicated on the idea that "everyone plays": Novices and experts alike can share in the fun simply by adjusting the level of controls. Though it's not a traditional EA Sports title, the arcade boxing game Facebreaker certainly doesn't abide by the company's new mantra. If this is supposed to be for everyone, why is the easiest skill level still really hard?

1. Theater Doubt: A Parable: Clinton Brandhagen (above) stars in the powerful drama of a Catholic school ripped apart by accusations of child abuse. It comes to the Everyman Theater this week for a six-week run. Look extra smart and catch the Pulitzer-Prize-winning play before the movie version lands in theaters next year. Opens Friday. For more: everymantheatre.org 2. Art Semiconductor: Multimedia artists Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt, aka Semiconductor, bring their trippy blend of science and art to D.C.'s Hirshhorn Museum.

A Rockville technology company took on Japanese gaming giant Nintendo yesterday, saying it filed patent-infringement complaints with two federal agencies asking that U.S. importation of the popular Wii video game system be halted. Hillcrest Labs, which licenses a technology to manufacturers that use it to make motion controls for digital media, said it filed a lawsuit in a Maryland U.S. District Court alleging that components of Nintendo's Wii game systems infringe upon four of its intellectual property patents.

After the prom, high school senior Cody Wolfe ditched his tuxedo and slipped into a hulking, flesh-toned sumo suit. He then raced onto a mat to body slam two classmates who were also wearing puffy fat suits. What better way to spend prom night? After the last slow dance, Wolfe joined about 240 C. Milton Wright High School students who left the ballroom on a recent Saturday night and headed to another party where the DJ played fast-paced, upbeat songs, the cooler was packed with nonalcoholic drinks and the hot tub was running - all under the watchful eyes of 50 parents.

Downloaded singles 1.Low, Flo Rida featuring T-Pain 2.Love Song, Sara Bareilles 3.Apologize, Timbaland featuring OneRepublic 4.No One, Alicia Keys 5.Paralyzer, Finger Eleven[ITUNES (DEC. 20)] Downloaded albums 1.Growing Pains (bonus track version), Mary J. Blige 2.Lupe Fiasco's the Cool (deluxe version), Lupe Fiasco 3.Sleep Through the Static, Jack Johnson 4.Noel, Josh Groban 5.Little Voice, Sara Bareilles[ITUNES (DEC. 20)] Downloaded TV episodes 1.Guitar Queer-O, South Park 2.Peter's Daughter, Family Guy 3.The Girl Who Becomes America's Next Top Model, America's Next Top Model 4.Lois Kills Stewie, Family Guy 5.Hi, Society, Gossip Girl[ITUNES (DEC.