In Activision Blizzard's pre-E3 investors conference call, CEO Bobby Kotick set a goal to get gamers who might have spent $50 on the company's products in the last console generation to spend $500 on them this time around. Recent product listings on Amazon.com and GameStop's online store suggest a few ways the company is trying to reach that goal.

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At its 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo press conference earlier this month, Microsoft announced a number of new features in store for Xbox Live, ranging from Twitter integration to a Games on Demand digital distribution initiative. To lay the infrastructure for that impending functionality, Microsoft took Xbox Live offline for much of yesterday. And while Xbox Live is officially back online, not all systems are go.