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NewsFactor - According to figures just released by market research firm NPD Group, escapism was a big winner in 2007. Despite an overall slowdown in consumer spending, the video-game industry posted a strong increase in earnings, up 43 percent from the year before. It was the second year of double-digit growth for video games, which grew by 19 percent in 2006.

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