DAVID BROOKS / Union-Tribune Emily Jacobson paused between customers at Luna Video Games in Ocean Beach to adjust the high score on Bust-A-Move of 1994.

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Cheaper way to play

As demand for used video games grows, sales of new ones slip

By Frank Green
STAFF WRITER

What's the difference between a shiny new video game disc and one that's been unwrapped and played a few times? To the teenagers browsing the used racks at Game Crazy inside the Hollywood video store on University Avenue in East San Diego, nothing. To their pocketbooks, a lot.

By Jeannine Aversa
ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve policy-makers differed last month on how much further interest rates would need to rise to keep the economy and inflation on an even keel, but most believed the end of the nearly two-year rate-hike campaign probably wasn't far off.

By Penni Crabtree 
STAFF WRITER

Venture capital-backed companies commanded healthy prices in mergers and acquisitions in 2005, with $27.3 billion paid for 356 U.S. firms – the highest total amount paid in a single year since 2000, according to a national survey.

BLOOMBERG NEWS and ASSOCIATED PRESS

Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, yesterday named Richard Zannino chief executive officer to succeed Peter Kann, breaking a century-old tradition of journalists running the company.

By Mike Freeman
STAFF WRITER

Relational Group, a San Diego investment bank and money management firm founded by corporate raider David Batchelder, has split into two companies. The investment banking arm, which handled transactions such as San Diego-based Titan Corp.'s $2.5 billion merger with L-3 Communications last year, will be renamed RA Capital Group.