Electronic Arts lowers outlook, shares fall (Reuters)
Reuters – Top video game publisher
Electronic Arts Inc lowered its profit forecast on
Thursday as it delayed “Mercenaries 2″ and a new “Battlefield”
title, sending its shares down 6 percent.
Electronic Arts swings to 3Q loss (AP)
AP – Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. said Thursday it swung to a loss in the third quarter, hurt by restructuring charges and the way it accounts for online-enabled games.
“Madden” game picks Patriots to win Super Bowl (Reuters)
Reuters – The New England Patriots
will beat the New York Giants by a score of 38-30 in the Super
Bowl, at least according to the popular “Madden NFL 08″
football videogame.
“BioShock” electrifies game critics, wins top award (Reuters)
Reuters – “BioShock,” which captivated
video game fans with its tale of an underwater utopia gone
wrong, took the top honor from the Game Critics Awards on
Thursday with judges praising it for innovating game play.
Sony's Games Division Gets Into the Black
After losing money for the better part of a year, Sony’s games division looks like its finally earning its parent company some money. According to Sony, the company managed to sell 4.9 million PlayStation 3 gaming consoles during the fourth quarter of 2007, after reducing prices on the expensive console, cutting internal production costs by using less-expensive components and eliminating backward compatibility with earlier PlayStation models, and being able to offer a wider selection of game titles for the console.
Sony is lowering its overall forecast that it would sell 11 million PS3s by March of 2008 to a total of 9.5 million; however, the company is also increasing its forecasts for P
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So You Want to Play Ender's Game?
Orson Scott Card’s novel Ender’s Game was published in 1985, and follows the story of a young boy (Andrew “Ender” Wiggin) who somewhat unwittingly leads humanity’s war against the alien “Buggers” by playing what appear to be nothing but very elaborate video games in a military academy called the “Battle School.” It turns out, of course, that the games are really an interface with humanity’s real-life military forces; Ender eventually defeats the Buggers by destroying the alien homeworld and, effectively, committing xecocide.
Ender’s Game has long been considere ripe material for video game adaption, and now Undertow developers Chair Entertainment
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Call Of Duty 4 Best Seller Of ?07
2007 was a bumper year for video games. Halo 3 broke all records for entertainment by earning over $170 in its first 24 hours. But even Halo couldn’t touch Call of Duty 4. Released in November, it sold a staggering seven million copies before the year’s end to become the best-selling game of 2007, the BBC reports.
Published by Activision, it’s already win Best Action Game at
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