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At four million iPhones sold, the 4S has become Apple's fastest-selling device. Should we be surprised? Maybe. First Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) bragged that the iPhone 4S had been pre-sold to more than one million consumers. Now, in the weekend following its release, the iPhone 4S has moved four million...

Has every publisher in the game industry lost their minds? Yesterday Benzinga learned that Sony (NYSE: SNE) will release a new version of the old PSP in Europe for 99 euro. It has since come to our attention that the device may lack Wi-Fi support, which is about the dumbest move Sony could have...

Small short-term gains, massive long-term losses. Bloomberg is reporting that Nintendo investors are increasingly unhappy with Nintendo, a company that is determined to stick to its tried-and-true business model of making games exclusively for its own devices. This strategy is nothing new;...

Nintendo truly is its own worst enemy. At around three in the morning, Nintendo (NTDOY) announced what may be the fastest price drop in video game history: starting August 12, the company will shed $80 off the MSRP of the embattled Nintendo 3DS, bringing the new price to a respectable $169.99....

Contrary to popular belief, Super Mario and Angry Birds are not the same. Last week, Nintendo made it crystal clear that it does not have any plans to develop for the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone or Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android platforms. This news came as a shock to some. “If Nintendo was...

One was filled with quality games and countless innovation. The other was a disaster from day one. In the ‘90s, everything was riding on Nintendo 64. The whole industry catered to its arrival, either as a third-party developer in support of its release, or as a competitor horrified by Nintendo's...

One was filled with quality games and countless innovation. The other was a disaster from day one. In the ‘90s, everything was riding on Nintendo 64. The whole industry catered to its arrival, either as a third-party developer in support of its release, or as a competitor horrified by Nintendo's...

Mini-games collections come in all shapes and sizes. From the Mario Party and WarioWare games of the world to the simplistic controller-free body-shaking madness of Kinect, this sector has come a long way since the days of the Super NES. Since its inception, Wii Play has been a frontrunner within...

Fads are a wonderful thing. They tell us how to dress, what music to like, and what items to purchase. They provide corporations with billions of dollars in profits and give investors an excuse to buy and sell stocks in large quantities. But just as teenage boys eventually realized that baggy...

Stocks that closed at their high of the day: 1) First American Financial (NYSE: FAF): Closed at $15.25 – high of the day was $15.25. 2) Vitesse Semiconductor (NASDAQ: VTSS): Closed at $4.33 – high of the day was $4.35. 3) Giant Interactive (NYSE: GA): Closed at $7.79 – high of the day was $7.80...

Who knew it could be so hard to unveil a new console? At last year's E3, Nintendo (NTDOY) made the impossible possible: it unveiled the Nintendo 3DS, the world's first glasses-free 3D device, without confusing the audience. The company did so with a slate of promising games and a plethora of...

Best 1) Temple-Inland (NYSE: TIN): Trading up 41.3% from yesterday's close to $29.67. International Paper put in a bid to acquire Temple-Inland for $30.60 per share. Temple's board rejected the deal, saying that the bid undervalued the company. 2) Westinghouse Solar (NASDAQ: WEST): Trading up 28...