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Welcome to our first Geek Roundup for the week of November 3rd through November 9th.

Gears of War 2 scores a 93 on Metacritic. [Source: Metacritic]
Too many games, not enough time.

A study by SquareTrade shows that BlackBerries are more prone to failure than the iPhone.
[Source: TechCrunch]
I might have to consider an iPhone in the future and ditch the BlackBerry 8830.

The folks at JBoss have released JBoss Tools 3.0 Beta 1.  [Source: The Server Side]
This is a must have for those of you doing any sort of Java EE development with JBoss Seam.

A mashup of 40 great (and free) icon sets for all of you Web developers out there. [Source: SixRevisions]

CNET reports that YouTube will start to host feature films as early as December. [Source: CNET]
I’m more interested in seeing how this turns out than ever using this feature.

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