When Activision reports its earnings, the game world listens.
Gamers could be playing the next Grand Theft Auto by next spring, analysts agree.
Electronic Arts‘ flagship online game, Star Wars: The Old Republic, isn’t doing so well, but the big video game publisher is so well diversified that the impact on the company’s bottom line isn’t as bad as it could have been, …
Investors, trusting Facebook as far as they can see it, have sent the social network’s stock tumbling down to bottom-of-the-barrel lows.
Shares were absolutely hammered in after-hours trading Thursday and again early Friday, dipping all the way down to $22.28 …
Editor's Pick Zynga's weak earnings report yesterday has spurred an investor panic, cratering the company's stock price by 39 percent today.
Nintendo wasn’t planning for a standard gaming controller for the Wii U. But it announced one this year for “multiplatform gaming.” Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter speculates that the reason the publisher did so was pressure from third parties such …
Valve's Steam app for mobile devices accidentally began showing categories for nongaming-related applications. We turn to some experts to see what this could mean for developers and the industry at large.
U.S. video game sales for the month of June are expected to be down 34 percent compared to a year ago, according to a forecast released overnight by analyst Michael Pachter of Wedbush Securities.
Sales are a closely watched barometer …
One thing is clear from the relatively disappointing showing of games at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) video game trade show this year. If Grand Theft Auto VÂ ships before the end of the year, it could be a so-so …
Editor's Pick Movie-licensed games are experiencing an extinction by evolution. Mobile apps and quality releases based on specific characters are displacing these often mediocre titles.
Investors are a skeptical lot. They showed that today after Zynga debuted a bunch of new games and services for the next generation of social games.
Zynga’s stock fell 5 percent Tuesday to close at $5.76 a share during normal …
Nineteen big names in gaming answer the question, "What are you most excited to see at E3 this year?"
The Internet can get a little cluttered the week before E3, but the good news is that we've compiled a list of some of the biggest rumors for your convenience.
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We’ve spent hours talking to and corresponding with analysts and VCs about the Facebook IPO over the past few days, and we couldn’t resist asking each of them a rather personal question: Expert commentary aside, would they, themselves, be buying …
Electronic Arts shareholders are being sorely tested again after the video game giant posted good earnings but warned about a tough quarter ahead. The stock has fallen 4.8 percent today to $14.41 a share, valuing EA at $4.77 billion. Now the analysts are weighing in.
Activision Blizzard will report its first-fiscal-quarter earnings on Wednesday, May 9, after the market close. This will come two days after its arch-rival Electronic Arts reports its earnings, and the two together will paint a better picture of the grudge match between EA's Star Wars: The Old Republic and Activision Blizzard's flagship online game World of Warcraft.
Game industry observers will be watching Electronic Arts closely on Monday, May 7, when the company is scheduled to report its fourth fiscal-quarter earnings for the period ending March 31.
The results will give investors a first peek at EA’s …
Zynga’s stock price has been falling in recent days in advance of the company’s first quarter earnings report today. The shares are trading at $9.15 each right now — up slightly but down significantly from a recent high of $15.91 …
Editor's Pick GamesBeat has learned that at least two free-to-play developers are currently in talks with Microsoft.
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Zynga’s purchase of OMGPOP for a price reported to be around $150 million to $200 million has drawn mixed reviews on Wall Street. The deal gives Zynga the team that made Draw Something, a Pictionary-style mobile game that has been …
