GameStop (NYSE: GME) has reached a deal to make another video game chain acquisition.  It is in a definitive agreement to acquire Micromania.  This chain is France’s leading video game retailer...
GameStop (NYSE:GME) is trading up 7% pre-market on what will be new yearly highs and all-time highs after posting earnings.  A quick summary is $0.13 EPS  on revenues of $1.3382B versus...
Gamestop Corporation (NYSE: GME) is still sitting in the same sort of No-Man’s Land position its chart has been in for some time.  With a $3.2 billion market cap, its $23.50 share price is in the...
Best Buy’s (BBY-NYSE) Q1 2008 was a bit of a disappointment, although that is somewhat par for the course as the mood was fairly sour going into the report.  The company posted $0.39 EPS...
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has unveiled the new release dates for the latest installment of the insanely popular Halo franchise.  Bungie has developed this exclusively for the Xbox 360 and it...
Vivendi’s Blizzard could have a new trick up its sleeve in MMORPG (massively multi-player online role playing games) besides its pending merger.  There is a report on the MMORPG Blog...
Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) signaled about six weeks ago that the video game industry wasn’t recession-proof.  It turns out that the company (and likely the sector) is not even as...
After losing about a third of its value in the last year, Best Buy Co. (NYSE: BBY) may start to be thrown around as a private equity takeover name.  A report from Bloomberg calls Best Buy a private...
As part of The 24/7 Wall St–The Channel Checkers survey series, 0ver the past week, The Channel Checkers surveyed 24 GameStop (GME) and EB Games (same parent company) stores across the United...
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 game...
There is another blockbuster gaming event this week on November 7: the release of "Gears of War 2 " The game published by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Game Studio’s unit and developed by Epic Games...
Welcome to your quick hit of the biggest players on the block paying out dividends in the coming week. Let’s dive right in and spotlight some of the giants! First up, we have Oracle (ORCL)....
When was the last time you kept a retailer buyout rumor on a watch list?  Or two retailers for that matter?  Friday’s trading was mixed with two buyout rumors in the retail segment.  GameStop...
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...
NPD released its monthly video game data showing that December video game spending increased 30.9% from December 2006. What is interesting is that software sales of game titles were up 36%, while...