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Xbox One Joins the Gamecasting Fray With Social Game DVR
Boom, headshot! Boom, my Xbox recorded a video of that headshot automatically!Voices
Sony Board to Discuss Third Point Plan
Under pressure from an activist investor to take part of its entertainment business public, Sony said it plans to discuss the proposal with its board.Durango on the Horizon: Here’s What’s Interesting About Microsoft’s New Xbox
A preview of things to come at today’s Xbox: A New Generation Revealed event.Pinterest Makes Pins More Than Pretty Pictures
Pinterest brings information from the rest of the Web deeper into its site, like any good emerging social platform.News Byte
April Was a Loser for Videogame Industry
April was a cruel month indeed for the videogame industry. Sales of gaming hardware, software and accessories in the U.S. for the month peaked at $495.2 million, according to sales data from research firm NPD, down 25 percent from the same period in 2012. Retail software sales declined 17 percent year over year to $254.3 million. Hardware sales plummeted 42 percent from the year prior to $109.5 million. The top console for the month? Microsoft’s Xbox 360, though it sold just 130,000 units in April, down 45 percent from a year earlier.Co-Founder Yat Siu on Animoca’s Big Menu of “Fast Food” Mobile Games
With more than 350 games, Animoca is all about quantity, and its co-founder says being based away from Silicon Valley helps.News Byte
AMD Shares Crash on Goldman Sachs Downgrade
Shares of chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices have fallen by more than 13 percent today following word of a downgrade to “sell” by Goldman Sachs analyst James Covello. With sales of PCs slowing to rates not seen since records have been kept, the outlook for AMD, Covello argues, despite winning supply contracts from both Microsoft and Sony in forthcoming gaming systems, doesn’t justify its recent rise to as high as $4.40 a share. AMD was trading at $3.80 a share, down 59 cents with 30 minutes to go in the session.Mobile Game Biz to Nintendo and Sony: Seasons? What Are Those?
A double whammy for the devices that used to define “mobile gaming.”Voices
Japan’s Electronics Under Siege
Hedge-fund billionaire Daniel Loeb’s campaign to pressure Sony Corp. into spinning off its entertainment arm is the latest tremor to ripple through Japan’s electronics industry, already reeling from unprecedented losses stemming from its lost standing in the technology world.Voices




