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GameStop Saves Itself, Buying Into The Download Model (GME, BBY, ERTS)

Posted: April 1, 2011 at 10:01 am

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. ...
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A Nintendo Resurrection As 3DS Sales Soar

Posted: March 30, 2011 at 6:12 am

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 ...
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Companies That Can’t Keep Their Products On The Shelves

Posted: March 21, 2011 at 5:13 am

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 ...
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GameStop’s Stock Buybacks Shouldn’t Please Shareholders (GME, ERTS, GOOG, MSFT)

Posted: February 4, 2011 at 12:01 pm

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 ...
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Sony’s New Portable May Be Success

Posted: January 27, 2011 at 6:02 am

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 ...
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Sony Game Launch Versus 3D Nintendo (SNE, NTDOY, MSFT, AAPL, GOOG)

Posted: January 19, 2011 at 12:48 pm

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 ...
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Kinect Cannot Save The Video Game Industry

Posted: January 14, 2011 at 5:20 am

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 ...
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The Best Video Game Stock For 2011 (GME, THQI, ERTS, TTWO, ATVI, MSFT, NTDOY, AAPL)

Posted: December 31, 2010 at 11:54 am

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 ...
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Microsoft Xbox Takes Lead From Wii, And Nintendo May Not Get It Back

Posted: December 8, 2010 at 4:54 am

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: ...
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New “Call of Duty” on Way to $1 Billion in Sales (ATVI, GME)

Posted: November 18, 2010 at 12:27 pm

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 ...
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Video Game Sales Crash Before The Holidays,And May Be Replaced Altogether

Posted: November 17, 2010 at 5:39 am

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 ...
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The Ten Businesses The Smartphone Has Destroyed

Posted: November 11, 2010 at 5:57 am

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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Consumer Reports Says Microsoft Kinect Is Not “Racist”

Posted: November 5, 2010 at 5:55 am

Is the new Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Kinect game system "racist?"  Consumer Reports says no. The problem began when Gamespot reported: [Our] testing suggests facial recognition features of Microsoft's motion-sensing camera ...
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Adapting to Change: Electronic Arts Furthers Social Network Gaming (ERTS, GME)

Posted: November 2, 2010 at 1:17 pm

Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) has announced a five-year strategic relationship with Facebook.  The timing of this is odd considering its earnings are due today, but the company and other ...
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Nintendo Falls Apart

Posted: October 28, 2010 at 5:42 am

Nintendo has found out what it is like to be Sony (NYSE: SNE). The powerful Japanese inventor of the Wii now finds the sales of its console in free fall ...
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