An NPD Group study, using our Canadian brothers and sisters as guinea pigs, has apparently determined that 40 percent of game buyers purchased on impulse (no, not Stardock's Impulse) in the last six months.

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The NPD survey found that 12% of US computer-owning households have a Mac. However, 85% of those also own a Windows PC, suggesting that the Mac/PC divide is nowhere near as clear cut as both Apple and Microsoft suggest.

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The NPD Group's steady stream of gaming industry studies continues today with a fascinating look at the game purchasing community.

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The NPD Group, famed tabulator of video game hardware and software sales, says it sees the new $299 price point of PlayStation 3 contributing to a significant sales boost for the system.

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Germany's far-right National Democratic party (NPD) has triggered outrage with plans for a Third Reich-style "training centre" in a small village.

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NPD should be releasing its June sales data on Thursday, and it's not looking pretty. According to Wedbush Morgan Securities' Michael Pachter and EEDAR's Jesse Divnich, software sales will be down at least 20%.

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Marwa was 31 and three months pregnant, when she appeared at a Dresden courtroom to testify against a man who had already been convicted of verbally attacking her by calling her a "terrorist" at a playground with her 3-year-old son.

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Sarah Palin showed on Friday that in one respect at least, she is qualified to be president. Caribou Barbie is one nutty puppy.

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Critics have unofficially diagnosed Palin with NPD: narcissistic personality disorder. Michelle Goldberg says she's only exhibiting the same bad behavior that has gotten male politicians ahead for years.

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Twitter users buy more music than the average Internet-using Joe and, when they buy it, they spend more. They also listen to more streaming music and are more engaged with music-related services online.

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A new survey shows that a lot of consumers who buy netbooks may be dissatisfied with their purchases. In late spring, consultant NPD surveyed 600 online consumers to gage their impressions of the popular mini-laptops called netbooks.

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Market research firm NPD released its retail sales figures for Macs and iPods today. Analysts, bracing for a serious decline got only a small one from Mac sales and called it good news. Slightly down is the new up, apparently.

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According to the leading global market research company NPD Group, video game sales dipped 17% in the month of March to $1.43 billion. This is the first reported decline in overall sales since September 2008.

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For the extreme right, Dresden has become a symbol -- an important indicator that the Allies, too, were brutal.

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German anti-immigrant, skinhead and neo-Nazi groups in the eastern city of Dresden staged one of their biggest demonstrations since German reunification in 1990 today, as 6,000 extremists marched through the streets, police said.

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Germany has been debating the merits of a possible ban on the far-right NPD party following Saturday's nearly fatal stabbing of the Passau police chief by a suspected neo-Nazi.

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What's more, Sony rightly points out that the PS3 has seen hardware sales grow 60% year-to-date. I realize the PS3 wasn't selling well in 2007, so that figure's less impressive than it sounds, but growth is growth, any way you slice it.

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Mac desktop sales are up 45% while the overall marketshare is down 20%. Two-Thirds of all computers costing $1000 or more, were sold by Apple.

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Nintendo atop the monthly NPD hardware charts? You do. Not. Say. Nintendo consoles again kicked the collective asses of the competition, with the Wii coming in at #1 and the DS at #2. But that's not the interesting part. You knew that was coming.

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Growth in Apple's personal computer business continued to outpace the industry average last month, with Macs accounting for a 14 percent unit share and 25 percent dollar share of all US-based PC retail sales, according to market research firm NPD.

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With the arrest of the NPD party's national treasurer on Thursday, things are looking increasingly grim for the far-right organization. Cooked books, poor finances and internal corruption are all leading to self-strangulation. Good riddance, say German newspapers.

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The video game industry saw dollar sales in the U.S. of $17.94 billion last year, an impressive increase of 43% over the previous year, when it sold $12.53 billion worth of video games, consoles, portables and accessories.

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A study conducted by the NPD Group today revealed that Apple owners are much more likely than PC users to pay for music downloads.

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Doing some simple math, GameDaily estimates that 52% of Xbox 360 owners in the US purchased a copy of Halo 3. With 4.1 million Halo 3 copies sold in the US through November and 7.9 million Xbox 360s purchased to date, it appears like a simple enough conclusion.

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Hardware: Nintendo DS 1.53 million Wii 981K Xbox 360 770K PSP 567K PlayStation 2 496K PlayStation 3 466K Software:

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