April 7, 2011
When Markus Persson was a teenager, a teacher asked him to think about his future. He responded with a jokey list "of things I wanted to accomplish before I was 30," ...
October 28, 2010
In Nintendogs, a series of games for the Nintendo DS, players train, groom, and feed a virtual puppy. Neglect your Nintendog, and it gets filthy and runs away; care ...
August 26, 2010
It's been a while since customers lined up outside stores at midnight to buy a Microsoft (MSFT) product. That may change on Sept. 14, when Microsoft releases Halo: ...
August 12, 2010
Open a video on ESPN.com or Hulu and there's a good chance Akamai Technologies' (AKAM) software and servers are working behind the scenes. The company is the leader in...
July 22, 2010
GameStop (GME) is a fast-growing retail chain specializing in sales of entertainment software, where users often battle to the death. Now it's fighting for its own ...
May 7, 2009
The global recession doesn't seem to have slowed Nintendo's momentum much. On May 7, Nintendo (7974.T) reported a 14% gain in operating profits, to $5.6 billion, for ...
October 1, 2008
Replicating certain aspects of reality in virtual worlds, such as currency or the concept of property, has the benefit of making the game immediately accessible to the...
September 17, 2008
A year ago, a YouTube enthusiast posted a video depicting what he called the "Jesus Shot" in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2009. This video showed off a bug in the game where ...
September 5, 2008
An asteroid hurtles toward a distant planet. Smacking the surface, the rock sends a blush of glowing red ash into the air. In the steaming gloop left behind, a soup of...
August 18, 2008
Atari has really had a tough time. With credit troubles, a Nasdaq delisting, and continued losses, what's the approach now to get back on track? Jim Wilson: There ...
August 15, 2008
"Don't leave money on the table; don't let anyone leave the table." As the gaming industry becomes increasingly high-profile, and as investors train their sights on ...
August 13, 2008
Regular broadcast advertising is just not what it used to be. While ratings numbers decline due to time people spend online or on their cell phones, people who do ...
August 6, 2008
Consumers are becoming more evasive by the hour, it seems. What could easily be achieved with a simple purchase of cross-platform media is not nearly as effective ...
July 28, 2008
When you announced that the original Rock Band content could be exported to Rock Band 2 you said it's "almost all" the songs. Why not all? Is it a licensing issue? ...
May 28, 2008
The New York Times has published a glowing article on the "Walt Disney of the digital generation," Nintendo's video game legend Shigeru Miyamoto. The piece details his...
April 25, 2008
Nintendo (NTDOY) President Satoru Iwata didn't have much time to savor his success. On Apr. 25, a day after the Japanese video game maker reported its best-ever ...
April 8, 2008
Inside Rockstar Games' posh New York headquarters, there's a buzz of round-the-clock activity. Just weeks before the company releases its much anticipated Grand Theft ...
February 25, 2008
Electronic Arts' bid is a gambit to enlarge its portfolio of games with Take-Two's triple-A titles
February 21, 2008
On a typical weekday, Dr. Mark P. Ombrellaro is scrubbed in for surgery by 8 a.m. The 46-year-old vascular surgeon runs a private practice in Bellevue, Wash. The more ...
January 21, 2008
It seems you can't read the news these days without coming across a new, improved, gee-whiz service that will make downloading movies and TV shows easier than opening ...
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