I've never endured through a more labyrinthian class registration process than San Francisco State University's tangled system. I'm consoling myself with a retro romp through Bully's Bullworth Academy kicking faculty in the nads.

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Publisher EA boasts 2 million registrants for the post-Thanksgiving Star Wars: The Old Republic beta test. Players shot things with lasers and got bad feelings from predictable situations for an average of 12 hours over the course of the holiday weekend, according to EA. That's nothing, I've made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs -- which would mean something (pushes up glasses) if a parsec actually measured time. [GameSpot]

Vietnam's first major video game project centers around the pivotal events of the First Indochina War. 7554 -- named after the cessation of major fighting between the French Far East Expedtionary Corps and the Viet Minh on May 7, 1954 -- focuses on the centerpiece Battle of Dien Bien Phu in a military first-person shooter akin to Call of Duty. The single-player, PC-only title is scheduled for a February 2012 release for a bargain $12. I'm disheartened by the lack of my favorite wooly disc jockey, but on the upside, my weakness to bolt-action rifles definitely stokes my interest for this game.

Take-Two Interactive Chief Executive Officer Strauss Zelnick takes a dubious stance on subscription-based stat-tracking services such as Call of Duty Elite. "I can't tell whether it's relevant yet," he told investors at the UBS Media and Communications Conference. "I'm kind of skeptical, frankly. I suspect that we want a different experience on our big screen than we do on our middle-sized screen than we do on our mobile screen, because I think we use them at different times and they mean different things. I do think an intellectual property can thread through, but only if it is really high quality." I'm way beyond the "skeptical" phase of acknowledging the ridiculousness of Elite, but that's why I'm not cut out for marketing. [GameSpot]

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