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It’s not quite Netflix for games, but Electronic Arts may be heading that direction with a new subscription service announced today.

Streaming video service Hulu has hired a veteran of Microsoft’s Xbox team to head its Seattle office building “living room” technologies.

This could be a big year for Seattle streaming music pioneer Rhapsody, now that Apple’s drawing attention to the category with a possible $3.2 billion acquisition of a rival service.

All for just $10 per month

Hulu doesn’t yet have a set-top box but the online video service today announced a new remote control.

Further evidence that video games have become an art form came today from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which announced that addition of “Halo 2600″ and “Flower”  to its permanent collection.

They are the first games added to the national collection and both have Seattle ties.

Sony image of “Flower”

It’s expensive and not fully baked yet, but I fell for Sony’s PlayStation 4 after it carried me away on a gaming binge last week.

Normally I’m not a fan of flashing lights on a box below the TV set, but I love the LED light bar on top of Sony’s sleek new PlayStation 4 console.

RealNetworks has radically redesigned its venerable media player software in a bid to make it relevant and appealing in today’s era of connected mobile devices.

It took more than a decade, but Microsoft has finally consolidated its various digital music ventures under one roof, with a standard jukebox and streaming music service for the phone, PC and Xbox platforms.

NBC News today confirmed that it’s relocating its Redmond team — the remnants of MSNBC.com — from Microsoft’s campus to the Columbia Center in downtown Seattle.