Detroit's Marwil Bookstore or purchasing them on the internet from online competitors, such as Amazon and eBay. After Marwil had been in business at WSU for some 59 years, Brian Kramer had seen textbook prices nearly triple over a period of two decades. According to a 2005 survey conducted by the National Association of College Students, about 25 percent of students had begun purchasing textbooks online. Another drastic change was when Wayne State opened a $6 million, 28,000-square-foot Barnes & Noble college bookstore right across the street in 2002. Marwil didn't have the fancy store front, cafe or music and apparel that was
X-COM: Apocalypse X-COM: Apocalypse X-COM: Apocalypse is the third game in the "X-COM" video game series. It was developed by Mythos Games (the creators of the original "X-COM" game), and published by MicroProse in 1997 for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Similar to the first two "X-COM" games, "Apocalypse" features a map-like management mode (the Cityscape) and an isometric combat mode (the Battlescape). The management mode takes place in a single city, called Mega Primus, rather than being spread out over the entire planet Earth as in the previous games. In addition, "Apocalypse" was the first game in the "X-COM" series to include