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Friday, 27 October 2006
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 AP - A global battery recall and red ink in its video-game business decimated Sony's profits in the most recent quarter, the Japanese electronics and entertainment company said Thursday.
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AP
Thursday, 26 October 2006
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 AP - Sony's profit plunged 94 percent for the July-September quarter as a global battery recall and red ink in its video-game business hurt the Japanese electronics and entertainment company.
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The Motley Fool
Thursday, 19 October 2006
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The Motley Fool - Tons of hardware and software are sold each year in the video game industry (2005 saw revenues of $10.5 billion in the United States), and the sector is poised to grow in the years to come. Technological advances allow for titles so sophisticated that they're almost like interactive theatrical pictures these days. Because of this, video games are stealing viewers from mainstream television, causing major headaches for broadcasting entities. |
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AP
Thursday, 19 October 2006
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 AP - Sony slashed its profit full year forecast Thursday because of costs from a global recall of laptop batteries and price cuts in Japan for the next-generation PlayStation 3 video game console.
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Reuters
Thursday, 19 October 2006
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 Reuters - Sony Corp. (6758.T) on Thursday lowered
its annual profit forecast by 62 percent, hit by heavy costs
for a series of recalls of its laptop PC batteries and a cut in
the price of its upcoming game console, PlayStation 3.
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The Motley Fool
Wednesday, 18 October 2006
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The Motley Fool - THQ (Nasdaq: THQI - News) had an ugly trading session yesterday. After an analyst downgrade, shares closed 3.4% lower. Still, the company's got good news in the form of a press release on the publisher's initial foray into games for Nintendo's (OTC BB: NTDOY.PK - News) Wii. |
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The Motley Fool
Tuesday, 17 October 2006
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The Motley Fool - There's a new bully in town today as Take-Two Interactive (Nasdaq: TTWO - News) releases its already controversial Bully video game. The game takes place at the fictional Bullworth Academy, where, as a new student, you face the stereotypical social dilemmas and warring cliques that are a part of high school life. Along the way, you will ultimately choose whether you wish to bully the bullies. And here is where the game has found some resistance from critics, who believe the game is inappropriate for easily influenced kids. |
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The Motley Fool
Tuesday, 17 October 2006
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The Motley Fool - How real is the virtual world? Real enough that the IRS may want a piece of the digital action. Congressional economists are beginning to weigh the question of how to tax digital assets amassed in multiplayer online games such as World of Warcraft and Second Life, Reuters reports. |
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AP
Saturday, 14 October 2006
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 AP - British-based online gaming companies began cashing in the chips of their U.S. operations Friday as President Bush signed a bill aimed at restricting Internet gambling in the United States.
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TechWeb
Friday, 13 October 2006
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TechWeb - GameStop and EB Games will begin taking $50 deposits to reserve an uncoming Nintendo Wii gaming console. |
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Reuters
Thursday, 12 October 2006
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 Reuters - PokerStars, the world's second-biggest
Internet poker firm, said on Thursday that a looming U.S. ban
on online gaming would not apply to poker, as it is a game of
skill, and its business would continue as usual.
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