Another round of hand-wringing from the newspapers, plus the future of online gaming and some interesting 2006 predictions.
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• We don’t mean to harp on the issue, but the Los Angeles Times has a nice package about the short supply of Xbox 360s and the outlook for Microsoft’s head-start on Nintendo and Sony. Here’s [...]
THQ’s profits dropped, but they still beat analysts’ estimates. The trick: heavy on handheld games, and no love for Xbox 360.
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On Thursday, Electronic Arts released disappointing results for the third quarter of the fiscal year, which covers the three months ending Dec. 31. Their game sales missed Wall Street’s expectations, partly because there [...]
PlayStation Magazine sends some more anonymously sourced PS3 news our way — this time, it involves DVR and PSP.
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The other day we reported on a PSM story that has been scanned onto the forums — the first page discussed Sony’s plans for a ‘full-on assault’ against Xbox Live. Today we get the second half [...]
Well, can’t say they didn’t warn us. But Electronic Arts missed even the downgraded estimates for their quarterly profits.
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EA’s profits for the 2005 holiday season were down 31 percent from the same period in 2004. And even after announcing that Wall Street should lower expectations for the quarter, the world’s largest gaming publisher [...]
On the eve of Electronic Arts’ quarterly report to Wall Street, the Times highlights the 360 shortage and the rise of used game sales.
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The New York Times focuses on the problems facing the gaming industry today, using EA’s impending quarterly report, which the publisher has already said will miss estimates, as its peg [...]
So much for our visit to Japan. Sony has announced it’s shutting down most of the Ginza PlayStation lounge in Tokyo.
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The closing, scheduled for Feb. 28, seems to be a cost-cutting measure by Sony. We don’t know much about the lounge in question, but apparently the PlayStation Square on the first floor will [...]
Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has launched the English version of his blog and podcast.
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A couple weeks ago, we reported on Kojima’s Japanese podcast, and now he’s breaking out an English version as well. It’s not actually Hideo hosting the English version, though, it’s a guy named Ryan Payton. Here’s what they’ve [...]
The huge gaming retailer is getting ready, and, for some reason, they’re using Oct. 1 as their tentative launch date.
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Gamestop is ready to take your order for 32 PlayStation 3 games — and, in the most interesting development, they’re listing October 1, 2006, as the date of availability for these “pre-release” orders. That [...]
The Evolution Studios’ web site mentions deep in its pages that their PS3 game, Motostorm, is scheduled for PS3 launch.
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Rather than force us to peruse their jobs pages, Evolution Studios has simply posted news about their PS3 game, Motostorm, which is currently in development for Sony. On a page devoted to the Evolution [...]
The world’s largest publisher announces a 5-percent cut in its work force. They’ll reveal their earnings to Wall Street today.
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Electronic Arts announced yesterday it will lay off between 325 and 350 employees, or about 5 percent of the total work force, as part of the transition process to next-generation development. About 35 employees [...]
