Electronic Arts Pressured to Outperform in Soft Videogame Market

Electronic Arts will be under pressure to report strong financial results this afternoon after the industry experienced a disappointing holiday period.
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Zynga’s Stock Is Up — And Why Every Other Game Company Stock Is Down

Zynga is bucking market trends today and is trading higher despite a report that came out yesterday suggesting that December sales were extremely weak across the industry.
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Hey, Luigi — Nintendo Builds a Real-Life Mario Kart

Nintendo’s portable game player, the 3DS, displays games in 3-D, but these Mario Karts are the real thing.
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Three Reasons Why GameStop’s Sucky Second Quarter Doesn’t Matter

Net income fell 23 percent in the second quarter; revenue from stores open for at least a year tumbled nine percent. But the game retailer still has reasons to be optimistic about the rest of the year.
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Trading Card Company Topps Buys Facebook’s Gift Card Provider

Topps, maker of the trading cards from childhood, is expanding into digital goods with the purchase of GMG Entertainment, the gift card provider for Facebook.
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Digital Game Revenues Hit $5.9 Billion in 2010

The Entertainment Software Association, which organizes the E3 every year, has released results of a study saying that the format and demographic make-up of gaming are changing.
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GameStop Breaks Out of the Box by Increasing Digital Revenues 53 Percent in the First Quarter

It’s not only the game publishers and console-makers that are seeing a transition to digital. It’s also the retailers.

News Corp.'s IGN Buys Hearst's UGO In Preparation For Game Site Spin-Off

It’s the end of News Corp.’s Web 2.0 play that started back in 2005: The media conglomerate plans to spin out its IGN.com dudes-and-games site, and is bulking up in advance by acquiring Hearst’s dudes-and-games-centric UGO.com.

Sony Moves Eight Million Motion Controllers to Challenge Xbox's Kinect

Sony has sold more than eight million units of the PlayStation Move motion controller, revealing that while it continues to trail Microsoft’s Kinect, it may be beginning to catch up.

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GameStop Bulks Up on the Web

GameStop Corp. has reached agreements to acquire two companies to bolster its online strategy, as the largest global retailer of videogames seeks to navigate a potentially treacherous move into electronic distribution of games.