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Bricks-and-mortar game retailer GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) has made a couple of acquisitions that the company expects to help it pick up some business in the online video gaming market. It could...
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Nintendo appears ready to prove that there are second lives for game console companies. The firm claims that first day sales of its new 3DS were the greatest for any handheld device in the...
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It is not unusual for companies with highly successful products to run out of inventory. Oftentimes, companies are forced to scramble at the last minute to meet an unexpected upsurge in demand. Some...
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“If gasoline tops $4.00 per gallon in the coming weeks, consumers may be forced to make significant changes to their spending habits. At this stage of the recovery, that could be an extremely...
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Game maker Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) posted unimpressive fourth quarter results after the market closed last night, and to make matters worse, offered a weaker-than-expected outlook...
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The joint venture between Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) and L.M. Ericsson Telephone Co. (NASDAQ: ERIC), aptly called Sony Ericcson, tantalized gamers with a commercial during yesterday’s Super Bowl for a...
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Video game retailer GameStop Corp. (NYSE:GME) today authorized a boost of $500 million in its share buyback program, replacing a $300 million authorization made in September 2010, and about half of...
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The first thing that experts in the gaming industry will point out about the new Sony (NYSE: SNE) portable NGP video game console is that it cannot succeed in a market crowded by similar products...
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A report from Bloomberg this morning has got the online gaming world abuzz. Bloomberg cites “two people with knowledge of the plans” who say that an updated PlayStation Portable, or PSP, handheld...
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The Kinect version of Xbox 360 sold eight million units the first 60 days it was on the market. Kinect sales should have improved as the holiday season progressed. That did not happen because...
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Video game investing has been the pits lately and a disappointment of the home-bound trade for the recession and recovery. The fun and cool games have so far not translated to major gains that had...
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There is growing evidence that the Nintendo Wii, which dominated game console sales for nearly three years, is losing market share. That position has been taken by the Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Xbox...
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To call the new mega-hit game “Call of Duty: Black Ops” a success would be the understatement of 2010 in video games. Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) has set a record in sales and been...
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The new Microsoft (NASADQ: MSFT) Kinect, which has already sold 1 million units, and updated versions of products from Sony (NYSE: SNE), and Nintendo had all better sell well in November and...
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Global smartphone sales rose by nearly 100% in the third quarter of 2010 compared with the same period last year. That allowed Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) to pick...
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