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Article: Reviews: Xbox Live offers satisfying challenges at $10 a pop
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- AP Worldstream
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- February 1, 2008
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I spent large chunks of last year playing the same AAA video games everyone else played: "BioShock," "Rock Band," "Super Mario Galaxy" and so on. But if I actually kept track of my gaming hours, I wouldn't be surprised to find that I spent just as much time enjoying the simpler delights of Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade.
For most of the year, I couldn't go to sleep without a nightly session of "Catan," Big Huge Games' translation of the "Settlers of Catan" board game. I got hopelessly addicted to "Puzzle Quest" (for the second time) when D3 Publisher moved it from handheld devices to the Xbox Arcade. I even got hooked ...