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Do you find yourself wishing for more opportunities to use your Playstation Move? Due to be released in Spring 2011, Sony has come out with a software server application called Move.Me that allows you to use PS Move paraphernalia and a PC to create new software that can be used with the Move. Move.Me is designed specifically to be used by game software developers, researchers, and college nerds who are lying in wait to put their personal mark on the Move market.

Here is our Top 10 List for this past week. Melee has fallen down the list a bit to make room for Brotherhood, which has been popular amongst a few dedicated people, and NBA 2K11. We'll have to see if the Smashers can pick up the slack next week, when the archive reopens.

The CVGA will be closed during break week, February 26 through March 6. In addition, the archive room will not open until 1pm on Friday, February 25.

Here is the top games list from last week, with Kingdom Hearts for the PSP making a surprise appearance.

Students in Sheila Murphy's class SAC 368: Video Games as Culture/Form are this semester blogging about video games on their blog at http://videogameform.blogspot.com. There are some great posts there and I invite you to give it a look-see.

One of our regulars, Grace Lieb, wrote an article about the CVGA for LEAD Magazine, which never got to be published before she left the magazine. So here is the article, in its entirety. Thanks, Grace!

Here are the top 10 games played in the archive last week, with Rock Band coming back into the mix.

The new game room in the basement is getting very close to being completely set up, and here are a couple of pictures of its new (cleaner) home. We also decorated the place with a few fun decals from games that you might recognize.

Authored by Ben Nanamaker: Kotaku's got an interesting mini-post and graphic up discussing the history of hair in video games. More specifically, the history of bad hair in video games.

Here are our top games from last week - this time with Black Ops making the list twice because of people bringing in their own copies. We're still working on getting our Xbox 360 copy in. I noticed that football games didn't even come close last week, despite the Superbowl - everybody ready to move on finally?