GameStop profit falls as sales of new video games decline

GameStop profit falls as sales of new video games decline Fort Worth Star Telegram The top-selling games during the quarter were LA Noire by Rockstar Games, NCAA Football 12 by Electronic Arts, inFAMOUS 2 by Sony, Brink by Bethesda Softworks, and Mortal Kombat by Warner Home Video Games, GameStop said. Quarterly earnings of 22 cents ...

Perlman Says Streaming Video Games Won't Become Obsolete Washington Post 17 (Bloomberg) -- Steve Perlman, chief executive officer of OnLive Inc., talks about the company's strategy to stream video games. He speaks with Jon Erlichman and Cory Johnson on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West. ...

Do You Finish Most of the Video Games You Play? SodaHead News Snow theorizes that one factor is the age of the average gamer: 37, according to the Entertainment Software Association. Most adults just plain don't have the time to devote dozens of hours to completing a game. Another possibility, according to Snow, ..

How video games can bring the community together with a fight Metro Some people, including singer Noel Gallagher, have said violent video games played a part in causing last week's riots - but David Jenkins finds evidence they can bring us together. Given last week's unrest, encouraging street fights between total ...

ExpressCache Intelligent SSD Caching Solution Offers Huge Boost to PC Performance PR Newswire (press release) Samsung is the first OEM to announce public deployment of ExpressCache, premiering it in their new Series 7 GAMER notebook PC at the World Cyber Games (WCG) in Germany. "There is a huge, measurable performance boost with ExpressCache technology ...

Virtual Programming Announces August Gamer Of The Month Inside Mac Games Virtual Programming's blog has been updated with August's Gamer of the Month. The GotM contest features an interview with the gamer whose email best explained why he or she should receive a VP game from Deliver2Mac.com. All of us follow our own routes ...

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Online/mobile video games to top console in 2013 San Francisco Chronicle That's how big the market for online and mobile video games will be in 2013, jumping 50 percent and topping console games for the first time, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. Business is booming for Trion Worlds, creator of "Rift," which has ...

VIDEO GAMES: Awesome Screens From Batman: Arkham City Showcase Battle With Mr ... Comic Book Movie Check out the latest screenshots from the highly anticipated video game featuring a battle damaged Batman, the frozen victims of Mr. Freeze and fantastic new images of the villain himself... The story for Arkham City takes place one year after the ...

New Southpaw Maneuver: Google+ Video Games vs. Facebook | GameGuideDog News Examiner.com Wonder if it's a 'gold rush' as Scott Stienberg states it in the video below? Will the new app location really make a big craze like folks are thinking? Our take on this topic is pretty straightforward which is thus: Google+ had a nice launch buzz by ...

Bayview video game battle gets real San Francisco Examiner (blog) Two pals playing video games in the Bayview got into a heated argument — and that's the last thing one hospitalized gamer can remember, police said. The seriously injured gamer woke up in an ambulance headed to Kaiser Hospital around 2:30 pm Tuesday. ..

SSD Performance In Crysis 2, World Of Warcraft, And Civilization V Tom's Hardware Guide If you're a gamer, you have to be wondering how such dry terminology can apply to having fun. Rather than telling you, we're going to dissect three popular titles to show you instead. SSDs cost a lot more than hard drives; that much is well-established ...

Teens with Asperger's Have Fun while Their Parents Network Patch.com Rust Library program provides video games for teens with Asperger's and networking for their parents. By Jim Barnes 14-year-old Lucy Matteo plays her hand-held game. Last month, Lori Conti's 12-year-old son Joel attended the Gamer's Union for Teens ...

Supernanny Jo Frost Blames UK Riots On Video Games [What Was The Cause Of The ... TFTS (blog) It was video games! No, seriously you guys, I know this because Jo Frost – perhaps better known to you pedestrians as the Supernanny – says so, and she is definitely an authority on these kinds of things. Just listen to what she says in her column on ...

White Sox Enjoy Video Games With Troops SB Nation Chicago (blog) Earlier in the day three members of the White Sox got to enjoy a day of video games via satellite with members of the armed forces stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Chris Sale, AJ Pierzynski, and Matt Thornton got to take their minds off baseball and ...

Rock of Ages rocks the world of video games in new trailer Joystiq by JC Fletcher on Aug 17th 2011 4:30PM Ace Team's Rock of Ages allows players to learn a bit about art history as they destroy castles and stuff with a big rock. Now, in this new trailer, Ace Team and publisher Atlus destroy game history with that same ...

Gabe Newell: 'I've played Dota 2 for 800 hours' Videogamer.com Speaking to PC gamer at gamescom in Cologne, Newell confirmed that he's not alone when it comes to his extensive play sessions. In fact, many of his employees have been bitten by the Dota 2 bug, with many playing into the early hours of the morning....

Star Wars: The Old Republic's accessible raids: rewards for all, no gear ... PC Gamer Magazine You can read more about The Old Republic's endgame in our preview in the latest issue of PC Gamer UK, which is in stores and online now. You can also subscribe to save money on the cover price. You'll scoop a free gaming mouse in the process.

Social Game Company Valuations 'Out of Whack,' Activision Publishing Says Bloomberg By Ragnhild Kjetland - Thu Aug 18 13:25:37 GMT 2011 Activision Blizzard Inc. (ATVI), the world's largest video-games maker, said today that valuations of makers of games for social platforms such as Facebook Inc. are very high, limiting Activision's ...

And in other PC gaming news… PC Gamer Magazine Inspired by the Saints Row 3 Walking Apocalypse trailer we are having our inaugural PC Gamerwrestling competition! In the red corner there is Craig “The Shambling Armageddon” Pearson, and in the blue corner Rich “The Strolling Cataclysm” McCormick! ...

Ethical Dilemmas and Dominant Moral Strategies In Games Gamasutra As video games have become an increasingly narrative medium, it has become popular to pose moral choices to the player. The possibilities here are promising: since games allow designers to build choices that a player must make, and consequences for ...

When the sequel is better then the original GoozerNation (blog) For myself as a gamer this was one of the biggest improvements in a series of games. More recently, gamers have experienced the greatness known as Uncharted 2. Don't get me wrong, Uncharted 1 is a must have. But number 2 added multi player, co-op, ..

Video games like Fruit Ninja help stroke patients recover Gadgets and gizmos A neuroscientist from Australia discovered that stroke patients get bored easily by doing repetitive motor tasks, but they embrace video games that have motion controls wholeheartedly. And since a big part of recovering from stroke is perfecting ...

Game over: 'LulzSec hacker' may have had his secret identity revealed by Xbox ... Daily Mail According to Gawker, Sabu wrote: 'Topiary was an avid xbox gamer... Was known in the community talked a lot. 'One of the forum users doxed (identified) him and kept throwing the info out there enough that someone was smart enough to make the connection .

Joel Bakan investigates the ways that marketers tap kids' desires in Childhood ... Straight.com UBC law professor Joel Bakan argues that big-business marketing efforts are designed to get children addicted to social media and video games. Joel Bakan's Childhood Under Siege explores how corporations fatten their bottom lines by exploiting the ...

Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint for iOS to be updated with new tables, ball ... Pocket Gamer by Anthony Usher Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint developer Zee 3 has told Pocket Gamer that the game is set to receive several new features in a coming update. Besides expected bug fixes and tweaks, the game will be getting two new pages of tables, ...

GamePlay tour comes to Southridge Mall Milwaukee Journal Sentinel By Jackie Loohauis-Bennett of the Journal Sentinel The stop promises to be not only gamer-friendly, but family-friendly, giving gamers of all ages a sneak peek at new video games and the chance to compete in challenges and win prizes. ...

Video game controllers grow up, arrive on battlefield Ubergizmo By Edwin Kee - 08/18/2011 06:51 PDT Who says that video games are child's play? Adults, too, enjoy their fair share of Mario. Well, boys in the military who grew up playing video games might have something else to cheer about when it comes to the...

The 10% Rule Gamasutra (blog) by Robert Levitan on 08/17/11 04:43:00 pm How long does it take to engage a gamer with your game to such a point that they decide to stick with it? The introductory portion of a game is critical. It challenges designers to present a title's key ...

Coming Tonight: 'Antiques Roadshow', 'Conan', 'Emissary of War', 'iBlast Moki ... Touch Arcade If you didn't already think that the App Store was a retro gamer's paradise, here's even more evidence. Rogue Sky, 99¢ / HD – Forum Thread – A precision balloon flying game, complete with weaponry that enables balloon to balloon combat. ...

Green games gain in popularity USA Today By Mike Snider, USA TODAY The fate of Earth is often at stake in popular video games, such as the sci-fi space sagas Halo and Mass Effect. But a growing movement of ecologically conscious games deals with the real destiny of our actual habitat. ...

Logitech's G300 Gaming Mouse Ditches The Thumb Buttons For Lefty's Sake TechCrunch Learn More When it comes to gaming, the better the mouse, the better the gamer. Logitech today announced its next-gen G-series gaming mouse, the G300, and if this thing doesn't give you a competitive edge, you need to spend more time practicing. ...

Freeze Tag Launches its Newest Adventure Game: Unsolved Mystery Club(R ... MarketWatch (press release) TUSTIN, Calif., Aug 18, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Freeze Tag, Inc. /quotes/zigman/4887563 FRZT 0.00% , which creates family friendly video games for smartphones, tablets and PCs, has launched its newest game, titled Unsolved Mystery Club(R): Ancient ...