Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 1 at 12:32 pm PT
Electronic Arts will be under pressure to report strong financial results this afternoon after the industry experienced a disappointing holiday period.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 13 at 1:44 pm PT
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.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on November 19, 2011 at 9:36 am PT
Nintendo’s portable game player, the 3DS, displays games in 3-D, but these Mario Karts are the real thing.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on August 18, 2011 at 6:00 pm PT
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.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on July 26, 2011 at 4:00 am PT
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.
Tricia Duryee in News on June 8, 2011 at 3:37 pm PT
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.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 19, 2011 at 7:27 pm PT
It’s not only the game publishers and console-makers that are seeing a transition to digital. It’s also the retailers.
Peter Kafka in News on May 1, 2011 at 5:27 pm PT
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.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 15, 2011 at 9:37 am PT
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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Nick Wingfield, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 31, 2011 at 3:30 pm PT
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.
