Ever wonder what the brick-and-mortar game retailers will do when downloads start to dominate sales?
You can guess what’ll happen in the long run, but GameStop intends to try delaying the inevitable by selling downloadable content directly through its stores, the…
Think $60 is too much for a video game?
You’re not the only one. In fact, CNBC says high prices are responsible for the latest slump in game sales, and not the downturn in the economy, because the prices didn’t come…
Any question whether video gaming is surviving the recession can be answered by a visit to your local game store.
There, at a glance, you’ll see used titles outnumbering new ones two to one, as consumers start to prefer pinching pennies…
Workers are pawns for profits in the game 'Layoff'
It’s difficult now to find much mirth in job layoffs — everyone, it seems, has been hurt by the roiling economy lately.
But that hasn’t stopped Tiltfactor Labs from trying to elicit at…
It’s not raking in the bucks quite like the NFL or NBA, but professional gaming seems to be raising a fair chunk of cash even in this lackluster economy …
Japan, which is more game crazy than the United States, suffered its first downturn in the video game market last year, with sales shrinking 15 percent from a year earlier, according to the Agence France-Presse news service.
The market was down about…
More bad news for the gaming industry from one of its biggest players …
When Microsoft announced it was revamping the Xbox 360 dashboard, concern, not congratulations, was the first thing I thought of voicing to Microsoft.
The update promised better graphics, avatars, easier access to movie and TV downloads — in short, a more…
The big news in video gaming Monday wasn’t gaming itself but economics.
Microsoft says its Xbox 360 console sold better on this Black Friday than any other, an improvement of 25 percent over last year. The company sprayed news outlets with the…
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