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Electronic Arts stock soared 12 percent Friday, a day after the world's biggest video game publisher beat Wall Street's earnings expectations and forecast healthier times ahead for itself and the industry. The stock closed at $59.24, up $6.24.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Stock spotlight
PRESS RELEASE: Ultimate Gamers Championship Hits Xbox Live & Otronicon
PRESS RELEASE: Ultimate Gamers Championship Hits Xbox Live & Otronicon
gamesindustry.biz Sun, 05 Nov 2006 1:28 AM PST
November 3, 2006—(Miami, FL)— The Professional Gamers League of America ( http://thepgl.org) has announced that Ultimate Gamers Championship™, its videogame competition series which will be held at Otronicon 2007™ ( http://otronicon.org) in Orlando, FL January 2007, will also bring two national qualifiers to Xbox Live™.
Game Breakers
Game Breakers
Slashdot Sun, 05 Nov 2006 7:13 AM PST
1up is running a feature looking at some not-so-fun design decisions that have been made in games over the years. "Innovations" like pits, spawn points, and long FMV sequences are just some of the choices they take to task here. From the article: "Rumor has it that videogames are not, in fact, movies. This might seem obvious to anyone who plays them, but the entertainment industry — and even a
Bar owners must remove video games deemed illegal
Bar owners must remove video games deemed illegal
The Plain Dealer Sun, 05 Nov 2006 4:58 AM PST
Electronic Arts shares surge on results, forecast
Electronic Arts shares surge on results, forecast
Market Watch Sun, 05 Nov 2006 5:18 AM PST
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Electronic Arts Inc.shares surged as much as 11% Friday after the No. 1 publisher of video game software reported results that topped expectations and raised its full-year sales and profit forecast.
Microsoft's Earnings Come In at the 'High End'
Microsoft's Earnings Come In at the 'High End'
Microsoft Watch Sun, 05 Nov 2006 6:50 AM PST
Microsoft reported earnings on Oct. 26 for the first quarter of its fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, that were at the high end of expectations. The increase comes on the back of strong demand for Xbox 360 consoles and SQL Server 2005.
Not your father's arcade
Not your father's arcade
BY CHAS REILLY. CHESTERTON | The days of sliding quarters into machines at the arcade are giving way to a new kind of video game business. ...
[PogoWolf]
Kinda cool, the idea here is to open a new Cyber-Café with more then just PC’s in it. Add in Xbox’s and PS2s, and you’ve got yourself a new age arcade!
Scarlett Johansson
Even the PS3 doesn't have the curves of Scarlett Johansson and developers should take notice.. THAT'S how you build controllers.Pass or fail? Video game consoles graded
Pass or fail? Video game consoles graded
By Kristine C.
While the rest of us are painfully counting the days, hours, and minutes for those shiny, new machines to finally be available, Robert Workman from GameDaily takes a step back to assess the video game consoles of our time, ...
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Thursday, October 26, 2006
Is the Game Media Being Oblivious?
Is the Game Media Being Oblivious?
from Slashdot by ScuttleMonkey
MaryAlan writes "The National Summit on Video Games, Youth, and Public Policy was this weekend, and almost no one from the game media showed up. In fact, the game industry seems to pretty much be ignoring the whole event. There's an article up on GamesFirst, which attended the summit, that criticizes the mainstream game press pretty hard for not attending. Apparently only one game journalist showed up. From the article: 'The video game media owes it to our readers to come to events like this and listen, come here and think, and come here and base our editorials on the reality of what's being said instead of an interpretation of the talking points that are published afterwords. Too many of the people discussing these issues in forums do so based on the works of the game media, and too few in the gaming media are spending the time to make it justified.'"
from Slashdot by ScuttleMonkey
MaryAlan writes "The National Summit on Video Games, Youth, and Public Policy was this weekend, and almost no one from the game media showed up. In fact, the game industry seems to pretty much be ignoring the whole event. There's an article up on GamesFirst, which attended the summit, that criticizes the mainstream game press pretty hard for not attending. Apparently only one game journalist showed up. From the article: 'The video game media owes it to our readers to come to events like this and listen, come here and think, and come here and base our editorials on the reality of what's being said instead of an interpretation of the talking points that are published afterwords. Too many of the people discussing these issues in forums do so based on the works of the game media, and too few in the gaming media are spending the time to make it justified.'"
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