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11.03.2009 12:15 pm

Can Mario ’save’ the Wii?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The bloom is off the rose over at Nintendo.

After several years of high interest and robust sales, the company’s Wii console is looking a little less appealing to consumers. Sales of the system over the first half of the business…

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03.18.2009 10:59 am

Layoffs become video game fodder

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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02.03.2009 10:13 am

Gaming ‘analyst’ undermines his own reputation

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Look around online for reports of the recession’s impact on video gaming and one name surfaces often: Michael Pachter.

He’s the guy ostensibly with Wedbush Morgan Securities that a lot of publications have cited lately on whether gaming will surf the rough…

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01.29.2009 10:30 am

Nintendo says, “Ow, Wii!”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Looks like Nintendo’s Wii console doesn’t sport recession-proof Teflon after all …

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01.15.2009 8:58 pm

Boom or bust for video games?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I guess it depends on who’s doing the writing — this guy, or this guy, or maybe this guy.

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12.01.2008 11:54 pm

Which console won on Black Friday?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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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10.17.2008 8:30 am

Video game sales fall off in September

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Two schools of thought persist regarding how video game sales will respond to the recession-leaning economy.

The first says sales should remain stable as Americans opt for at-home entertainment to save money, and video games last longer and are more engaging…

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09.11.2008 11:49 pm

Flagging game sales due to boredom, as well as the economy

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

arrow.jpgHas the nation’s glum economy jammed a needle into the video game industry’s constantly expanding sales?

You might think growth of 9 percent over the previous month’s sales figures is still reason to celebrate. In the 21st century, however, anything less than double-digit…

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