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GRAPEVINE, Texas-(Business Wire)-November 9, 2007 - GameStop Corp. (NYSE:GME), the world’s largest video game and entertainment software retailer, introduced today a new large-format activity book for youth available at all U.S. GameStop locations with the purchase of a new E-rated video game.

While supplies last, the activity book features coloring pages, word puzzles and mazes created in partnership with leading video game producers and publishers, including Electronic Arts, Activision, Nintendo, Midway, Sega, Ubisoft, Microsoft, D3 Publisher, Eidos, Crave, Tommo, Majesco Entertainment and DSI Games.

In addition, now through November 30, 2007, youth entrants can submit their best “How to Draw” and “Coloring” pages and win GameStop gift cards. Entrants may choose from any one of the “How to Draw” or “Coloring” pages to color and are limited to one entry per person and/or household per day. For complete rules, visit www.gamestop.com/activitycontest.

With more than 500 new video game titles to choose from this holiday season, GameStop can simplify the game-selection process and give power to the players. As the world’s leading gaming specialty store, it has the widest assortment of titles and an experienced staff to guide gift selection for ages six to 60.

About GameStop Corp.

Headquartered in Grapevine, TX, GameStop Corp. is the world’s largest video game and entertainment software retailer. The company operates over 5,000 retail stores across the United States and in sixteen countries worldwide. The company also operates two e-commerce sites, GameStop.com and EBgames.com, and publishes Game Informer(R) magazine, a leading multi-platform video game publication. GameStop Corp. sells new and used video game software, hardware and accessories for next generation video game systems from Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft. In addition, the company sells PC entertainment software, related accessories and other merchandise.

General information on GameStop Corp. can be obtained at the company’s corporate website:

http://www.gamestop.com/corporate.

A 30-year-old Kohler man was charged today with burglarizing a VFW post after investigators used new video software to enhance security footage and identify him, according to a criminal complaint.

Leroy M. Godard, of 226 Woodland Court, faces up to 18.5 years in prison if convicted on felony counts of burglary and bail jumping.

According to a criminal complaint, Godard broke through a window to enter VFW Wolf-Olson Post 1230, 1138 Union Ave., about 2:30 a.m. Sept. 12. He ransacked the building but couldn’t find any money, and instead left with two cases of Coors Light, the complaint said.

Surveillance footage showed Godard entering the building and walking around inside, the complaint said.

Police then used VideoDetective, a $40,000 system paid for through a grant, to lighten and enhance the footage, allowing a police supervisor to recognize Godard. The system has been in use for about a month.

(Source: sheboygan-press)

“You’ll turn my pretty head with your flattery,” dapper William Powell says to elegant Myrna Loy in “I Love You Again,” a 1940 screwball comedy. Replies Loy: “I’ve often wished I could turn your head — on a spit, over a slow fire.” Ouch! Their romantic repartee could sometimes turn acid, but in the 1930s and ’40s, William Powell and Myrna Loy were the most attractive and enviable romantic couple in the movies. The Loy/Powell chemistry was best displayed in the six “Thin Man” mysteries produced from 1934 to 1947, but the glamorous MGM contract players also appeared in another eight movies together, five of which are collected in the DVD box set “TCM Spotlight: Myrna Loy and William Powell Collection,” recently released by Warner Home Video. (The “TCM” stands for Turner Classic Movies.) The set begins with the feature that first paired Powell with Loy, “Manhattan Melodrama,” which is perhaps most famous (infamous?) as the movie that John Dillinger watched before he was gunned down outside the Biograph theater in Chicago on July 22, 1934. Directed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stalwart W.S. Van Dyke, “Manhattan Melodrama” tends to be underrated because of the corniness of the premise, which already was cliched in 1934: Blackie (Clark Gable) and Jim (Powell), orphans and lifelong best friends, find themselves on opposite sides of the legal fence as adults, with Blackie one of New York’s top gangsters and Jim a crusading young district attorney. Loy plays sexy party girl Eleanor Packer, “the darling of after-dark,” according to the trailer, included on the DVD. The movie is entertaining from start to finish, cramming an unbelievable amount of action — and social and political relevance — into its first few scenes, as the young Jim and Blackie (played by a 14th-billed Mickey Rooney) lose their parents in a fire on a steamboat packed with ethnic immigrants, then lose their Jewish foster father under the hooves of a police horse when a Trotskyite starts a riot. In other words, the boys are orphaned twice in under 10 minutes! Next up is another Manhattan melodrama, the contrived “Evelyn Prentice” (also 1934). Directed by one William K. Howard, the film casts Loy as the unsatisfied wife of a job-obsessed lawyer (Powell). When she allows herself to be romanced by a “loathsome parasite” of a gigolo, murder follows. The set’s third film, “Double Wedding” (1937), directed by future “Jailhouse Rock” helmer Richard Thorpe, is the dog of the box, an annoyingly wacky tale of a free-spirited and irresponsible artist (the miscast Powell) who lives in a cluttered trailer home yet somehow melts the crust off a wealthy dress-shop owner (Loy) previously uninterested in men or marriage. Advertised in its trailer as “The movie with ‘Yumph’ ” (and how desperate was MGM to approve that campaign?), the film asks viewers not to notice that Powell’s jobless — and not particularly talented — “Bohemian” is a selfish clod whose antics should propel Loy toward a nunnery rather than the altar. Two wonderful screwball comedies complete the set: Van Dyke’s “I Love You Again” (1940) and Jack Conway’s “Love Crazy” (1941). “I Love You Again” plays against Powell’s Nick Charles persona by introducing him as a dull small-town businessman who drinks only “ginger ale and grape juice” until a knock on the noggin restores him to his long-lost “real” identity as a con artist. Even better is the sophisticated/slapstick “Love Crazy,” at least until the final act, when Powell’s cross-dressing Charley’s Aunt act drags (pun intended) the movie past the point of ridiculousness. As is typical of Warner Home Video releases, the box set is loaded with cartoons, shorts and other vintage material from the years when the movies made their debuts.By John Beifuss

Scripps Howard News Service

This week, Adobe is releasing overhauled Windows versions of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, the photo and video editing programs aimed at home users. While they cost $99 each or $149 for the pair, they are surprisingly similar to Photoshop CS3, the $649 image editor, and Premiere Pro CS3, a serious $799 video editing program.

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With Photoshop Elements 6 for Windows, images can be spruced up using a guided step-by-step process. Tools from the high-priced version have been converted into simple improvement modes. A new tool lets you swap faces or whole bodies between group pictures, even those shot from different angles, for personnel substitutions in the style of the cold war Kremlin.

The finished work can be plain old pictures, slide shows, online galleries or a photo book printed by Kodak.

You can build complex productions in Premiere Elements 4 for Windows that combine video clips, pictures, music and themed templates (a rock concert is one). Up to 99 audio or video layers can be combined and synchronized to music. When it’s all wrapped up, you can upload the final cut straight to YouTube.

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Best-Selling Consumer Video Software Makes it Easy to Deliver High-Impact Stories

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Septempber 24, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Premiere® Elements 4, a major upgrade to the best-selling consumer video-editing software. Available for Windows®, Adobe Premiere Elements software offers easy and flexible ways to create home movies with amazing video and audio effects in just minutes, and then share them on DVDs, via mobile devices or upload them directly to YouTube and other social networking sites. Adobe Premiere Elements includes a wealth of new functionality, including an Organizer to help find and sort video clips, one-click movie themes and an improved easy-to-use interface.

In addition, Adobe today announced Adobe Photoshop® Elements 6 software, a complete photo-editing solution (see separate press release). Available separately or together in a single retail package, Photoshop Elements & Adobe Premiere Elements give photo and video enthusiasts more creative ways to organize, edit, create and share digital photos and home movies.

“Social networking sites inspired a heightened interest in creating and sharing videos,” said John Loiacono, senior vice president of Creative Solutions at Adobe. “Video editing is a part of that process and users demand ease, speed and the ability to make professional-quality movies that grab the attention of viewers. With the ability to upload movies to the Web in Adobe Flash® Player compatible video, the ‘YouTube ready’ format, Premiere Elements’ new user experience does all the heavy lifting, with templates and drag-and-drop effects that will leave a lasting impact.”

Create Movies with Amazing Style and Effects

Adobe Premiere Elements 4 includes new features for creating rich movies in just minutes. Tight integration with Photoshop Elements and a shared Organizer, with a common database accessible from either application, allow users to sort video clips and still photos - with visual tagging options for categorizing by people, places, or events. Once the clips are chosen, consumers can apply event- or style-based movie themes to turn a sequence of scenes into a polished movie in just a few clicks. Background music and sound effects help underscore emotion, add emphasis, or create a mood. The new Audio Mixer works just like a mixing board in a recording studio, allowing the adjustment of relative volumes with sliders so audio can still be heard if and when desired. Adobe Premiere Elements automatically detects the tempo of the musical soundtrack and syncs the beginning and end of each scene with the beats for more dynamic slideshows and engaging movies. All of these new features are available within a clean, easy-to-use, updated interface for creating a polished movie fast.

Share Your Movies Virtually Anywhere

The new Sharing Center centralizes many ways to show off videos. Consumers can upload and share videos in multiple ways including on disc, the Web, and mobile devices such as the Apple iPhone. Videos can be exported in Adobe Flash Player compatible video to Web sites without requiring any special encoding. Video enthusiasts can also take advantage of the latest technology and enjoy movies in high definition, including Blu-ray Disc. Adobe Premiere Elements 4 takes care of optimizing and formatting for the specific destination so movies always look great.

Adobe Offers Complete Line of Products for Every Level

Adobe offers video products that meet the needs of every individual: Adobe Premiere Elements for the video enthusiast who wants to create a movie in just 15 minutes and Adobe Premiere Pro for the professional or advanced amateur videographer. Adobe is also pioneering new ways to deliver its industry leading video technologies with Premiere Express, a video remix and editing tool available on popular Web sites such as MTV.com, Photobucket and YouTube.

Pricing and Availability

Adobe’s digital imaging and digital video products are available immediately at www.adobe.com and online retailers including, Amazon.com. The products will also be available at Best Buy, Staples, Costco, Fry’s, Circuit City, Office Max, Office Depot, Microcenter, J&R, Buy.com and NewEgg.com. Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 and Adobe Premiere Elements 4 for Windows are available separately for an estimated street price of US$99.99 each. Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 & Adobe Premiere Elements 4 for Windows is available as a bundle at an estimated street price of US$149.99. Photoshop Elements 6 for the Macintosh platform will be available in early 2008. Information about the other language versions, as well as pricing, upgrade and support policies for other countries is available on www.adobe.com/go/pre4 . For more information, customers can call 1-800-492-3623.

About Adobe Systems Incorporated

Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information - anytime, anywhere and through any medium. For more information, visit www.adobe.com

We changed the slogan “A huge collection of cool video software” into the current “Easy-to-find and easy-to-use video software kits. It’s totally FREE for downloads!” thanks to our “discover” that all of video software on our store are very easy to use. Also it reflects our desire to build up a well-organized store which visitors can easily find what kits they want.

Our growing Codec & Add-on Library helps you play and carry out all tasks with video software. Also an index of Video concepts will be built soon.

The first 64 featured video software kits have been released on Videosofts.com. Each category includes 10 products but the Video Player randomly selected from our huge store. We’ll keep VideoSofts.com updated daily with latest and hottest high-quality video software.

VideoSofts.com has officially joined the World Wide Web. This is among the first dedicated download site for video software kits up to now. At VideoSofts.com, visitors can download free and buy any products with the ultimate care.

“We try to build a place where users can easily find video software they like”, said Angel Martin, VideoSofts Webmaster. Video software kits at VideoSofts.com are divided into 7 categories such as Video Converter, Video Ripper, Video Player, Video Recorder, Video Burner & Cloner, Video Creator & Editor, and Other Video Software. The number of products in this first release, however, is still limited to 10 best ones each category. “But we’ll keep our store refresh every day with newly-released products on the Net”, continued Angel.

VideoSofts.com also builds a video clip corner for amusement. “As a newly-born child, this site needs ultimate care from us, and most importantly from loyal visitors. That’s why we also try to build a community for our visitors. How can we? Now we’ve just build a modest library of funny and hot video clips collected here and there. Users now can visit http://www.videosofts.com/video-clips/ for fun or relax”, added Angel. “Also we’re trying to make an index of video terms and built-ins for playing video with crucial codecs we’ve collected.”

Latest video news and reviews are always updated at VideoSofts.com. “We’ll try to keep users updated with reviews worldwide from well-known reporter and VideoSofts writers”, said Angel. “It’s really difficult at first, with the 2 members of the whole site like us now. But we hope with the endless attempt, users then highly appreciate VideoSofts.com as the first volunteer in video world”.

Now VideoSofts.com is waiting for first visitors at http://www.videosofts.com/