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As game developers and publishers look more and more to digital distribution as a way to bypass current brick-and-mortar game sellers -- in part to cut down on game reselling, a major loss to their bottom line -- we could be witnessing the beginning of a new model of game development. In the future, when you drop $60-$70 on a new game, you might just be buying the game engine and the background art, with the knowledge that the developers will be releasing content packs that provide entirely new, self-contained game experiences that build off the original title.

adding new functionality to its Groups feature

making threaded conversations within groups similar to face-to-face professional interactions by removing the wall between original remarks and off-site content such as news articles. You can share links on Groups the same way you would on the homepage. And your profile picture will now be attached to any comment you make on a group, personalizing the experience.

You can also now roll over the images of the last three participants on any thread to see comment previews

Now accounting for 20 percent of the revenue taken in by News Corp.’s cable empire, FX has seen income grow from just $279.7 million in 2006 to $460.7 million in 2011. “When you look at the ramp-up of ad revenue for FX, as they’ve increased their movie content, they’ve also increased their ad revenue,” Erik Brannon, the IHS analyst who prepared the report, told paidContent. Among networks not devoted full-time to movies (a la Fox Movie Channel), AMC also ranks high for movie reliance. While the network is known for original-series hits like Mad Men, Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead — now staples in the Netflix streaming lineup — nearly 80 percent of its air time is filled with movies.