Game Sales

Source: articles.moneycentral.msn.com --- 30 days ago
NEW YORK (AP) - For the first time in more than two years, data from market researcher NPD group showed that U.S. video Game Sales growth slowed to the single digits. ...

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 36 days ago
CLEVELAND-- The Ohio Lottery says Sales for the new Keno lottery Game didn't keep pace with annual projections during the first month of operation. But spokeswoman Marie Kilbane says it's a traditionally slow Sales period and it's much too early to make projections. ...

Source: abclocal.go.com --- 30 days ago
Game Sales totaled $550 million in August, down from $591 million in July. It's the lowest year-to-year Sales gain since January. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 30 days ago
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Source: www.moreover.com --- 30 days ago
Shares of GameStop Corp., the world's largest video Game retailer, declined Friday after a report showed video Game retail Sales growth slowing in August. ...

Source: developers.slashdot.org --- 8 days ago
ShackNews reports on an emerging trend which sees Game publishers offer one-time bonus codes to unlock extra content for certain titles. Rock Band 2, for example, comes with a code which will allow free 20-song download, but is only usable once. NBA Live '09 has functionality to update team rosters on a daily basis, but will only do so for the original owner. "'This information and data is very valuable and it wasn't free for us,' an EA representative explained on Operation Sports. 'T-Mobile is paying for it this year for all users who buy the Game new. This is a very expensive tool to use, and if you don't buy it new, then you'll have to pay for this. It isn't greed at all.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot. ...

Source: www.betanews.com --- 5 days ago
With consumers suffering huge losses on investments in their homes and retirement funds, will they really spend more on CE products this holiday season than last? Two categories should do well, a CEA analyst predicted today. ...

Source: www.1up.com --- 4 days ago
In the past few months, there has been a rising chorus over the practice of used games. On the anti- side are publishers and developers, who see the practice as taking money out of their pockets through the cannibalization of new Game Sales, while on the other side are retailers like Gamestop, who make higher margins on used games Sales. And with traditional retailers dipping their foot into the used games market (e.g., Circuit City and Best Buy) while increasingly recession-burdened gamers increasingly looking to used games for their fix, are the fears of publishers and developers justified? The selling of used games are a perfectly legal right of gamers under the 'first-sale doctrine' of copyright law, where the purchaser has the right to dispose (i.e., sell, trade, donate, etc.) of a copyrighted work as long as no additional copies are made. In other words, the original copyright holder's rights to control the ownership of the copyrighted work ends with the first sale, and the purchaser has every right to sell it to another buyer, as they would with a piece of used furniture. Similarly, the second purchaser of the copyrighted work (e.g., a used Game store) has every right to sell it to another buyer, and so on. According to research & consultancy firm OTX, the used software market in the US is estimated to be $1.3 B USD in size. Though that sounds like a lot, the total US gaming software market is estimated to be $9.5 B. Used Game s ...

Source: business.scotsman.com --- 12 days ago
A "STUNNING" set of results from computer games retailer Game brought a rare ray of sunshine to the high street yesterday. ...

Source: www.MiamiHerald.com --- 32 days ago
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Source: www.business-opportunities.biz --- 5 days ago
Daily News: Sometimes inspiration for starting a business venture just shows up where you might least expect it. For Randy Herron, what he developed into a lawn Game known as “Ring It! Golf” started with a visit to Greenville, N.C., eight years ago. As so often happens in college towns, the Herrons found themselves in a neighborhood of [...] ...

Source: www.shacknews.com --- 9 days ago
After years of lamenting that they see no kickback from the extremely lucrative used Game market, Game makers have launched a counter-attack by packing new games with one-use codes for extra content. New copies of Epic's Gears of War 2 (360) will include a one-use download code that will rewards with 5 additional multiplayer maps, all pulled from the original Gears of War. According to GamePro , these maps will not be available for purchase through the Xbox Live Marketplace, with Epic claiming they are "special gifts [for] our loyal fans." EA Canada's NBA Live 09 utilizes a similar ... ...

Source: www.crosswalk.com --- 10 days ago
The newest Grand Theft Auto video Game - Chinatown Wars - will feature selling drugs as a part of the Game. More controversy seems to provide more publicity and only seems to serve to increase Game Sales. ...

Source: www.bloggingstocks.com --- 30 days ago
Filed under: Major movement , Bad news , Industry , Options , Technical Analysis GameStop (NYSE: GME - option chain ) shares are falling today after data from market researcher NPD group showed that U.S. video Game Sales growth is slowing . NPD reported that U.S. retail Sales of video Game hardware, software and accessories rose only 9% in August which is much less than July's 28% growth rate. If you think this stock won't be rising too far in the coming months, then it could be a good time to look at a bearish hedged play on GME. This morning, GME opened at $42.08. So far today the stock has hit a low of $40.41 and a high of $42.08. As of 12:35, GME is trading at $41.32, down $1.38 (-3.2%). The chart for GME looks bullish and S&P gives GME a positive 5 STARS (out of 5) strong buy ranking. For a bearish hedged play on this stock, I would consider an October bear-call credit spread above the $50 range. A bear-call credit spread is an options position that combines the purchase and sale of call options to hedge risk in case the stock doesn't do what you think but still leverage nice returns. For this particular trade, we will make a 4.2% return in 5 weeks as long as GME is below $50 at October expiration. GameStop would have to rise by more than 21% before we would start to lose money. Learn more about this type of trade here . GME hasn't been above $50 since May and has shown resistance around $46 recently. Brent Archer is an opti ...

Source: www.sportsgamer.com --- 6 days ago
Hah, good stuff. Go figure EA's name is dropped in on this..especially since it's the main way I buy EA games so that the developers don't see a dime of my money. For the full article checkout Video Games, Game Reviews & News - G4tv.com (http://www.g4tv.com) but here's my favorite excerpt... ---Quote--- EA's NBA Live 09's much hyped feature, where stats and rosters will be updated daily for PS3 and 360 users, will only be available for free via a one-time use code with purchase of the new titles. Without the code, the feature will cost $19.99. "This is a very expensive tool to use, and if you don't buy it new, then you'll have to pay for this," said by an EA rep on a forum. ---End Quote--- Thank god I'm going to get NBA 2k9 and not Live. ...

Source: www.newsfactor.com --- 30 days ago
Stockings are expected to overflow with video games this year, researchers say. As the 2008 holiday season approaches, the gaming industry is gearing to get under the tree and analysts are predicting August's single-digit Sales growth is no indication of what to expect for the holiday season. Analysts predicted the gaming industry would begin to slow down during the summer months and they did, according to NPD Group, a research firm based in New York. But that will not hurt the bottom line. The gaming industry's massive double-digits growth over the year had to slow eventually. August saw an increase of only 9 percent in video-Game Sales from August 2007, but analysts say single-digit growth in August is okay. Summer Slowdown "It's not a big deal," said David Riley, a spokesperson for NPD Group. "The summer months are historically the slowest months in the industry in terms of Sales. The industry historically has followed the seasonality trends." In the summer months consumers are busy doing other things like vacationing and playing outdoors and are not normally in front of the television, according to Riley. Retailers in the U.S. cashed in on $1.08 billion in video-Game Sales for August, compared to $995 million the same month in 2007. "Why have we seen continued growth in this industry even though we are in a recession?" Riley asked. "{Software games} are going to be under the tree because they won't fit in the stockings," he quippe ...

Source: play.tm --- 32 days ago
Veteran Game designer David Braben has noted with concern that second-hand Game Sales could be seriously hurting traditional singleplayer games. ...

Source: www.news4jax.com --- 30 days ago
The economy doesn't appear to be impacting video Game industry. ...