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Longer lifecycles could keep Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) from releasing a new console in the near future. Up until recently, the Mario maker released a new TV-connected game machine every five years. This tradition ended with Wii U, which arrived in 2012 -- a full six years after the original Wii...

Domestic video game sales increased in May and June, but the upward trend could come to an end in 2019. Eva Hunyadi, a research analyst at Juniper Research, recently authored a report about the future of video games. While Hunyadi is optimistic about present-day sales, she is concerned about...

Is Normal the new normal for earphone manufacturing? If the company's unique concept takes off, it could spawn an entirely new subset within this growing industry. Unlike Beats Electronics and other one-size-fits-all manufacturers, Normal is a startup with one goal in mind: to produce custom...

Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) customers will be able to play Destiny at select stores on Saturday, July 19. The three-hour event (which is scheduled to run from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.) will be held at 71 Best Buy stores nationwide. All participating locations can be found at BestBuy.com/GamingEvents....

Sony (NYSE: SNE) led the pack last Christmas, but iSpot data shows that another company persevered in 2014. "When you're talking about gaming, there's definitely the overall trend of the casual game companies getting more and more into the game and upping their spend on TV," Sean Muller, co-founder...

Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) are likely to spend more money promoting their new game consoles in 2014. For the first five months of the year, Sony dominated the airwaves, spending $59 million to advertise the PlayStation brand across 24 different TV networks. Microsoft spent $...

Who will win the battle for streaming TV domination? In a broader sense, the trophy has already gone to Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). Both companies sold more than 80 million units of their last game consoles, which also function as media streaming devices. However, when game...

During the first week of June, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) ruled the media with countless headlines. Last week, Apple took a backseat while Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) took center stage, thanks to their presentations at the 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo. Neither company...

The 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo is officially over. While gamers will be sad to see the show go, attendees are likely too tired to realize that the three-day game-fest has come to an end. This year's show was definitely an improvement over the last few years, but it (like all E3 events) had...

Which console came out on top at the 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo? As usual, the answer largely depends on who you ask. Christine Arrington, Senior Games Analyst at IHS Electronics & Media (NYSE: IHS), thinks that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) had the better presentation. "The...

Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) and Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) teamed up for another Wii U event this week, to coincide with the 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. Designed as a promotional tool for both companies (it increases store traffic while encouraging attendees to purchase a Wii U and/...

Critics and consumers will surely argue about which company had the better presentation at the 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo. Some analysts have already chosen a winner, but Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter has a different take on the matter. "They both did as well as they...

Sony (NYSE: SNE) sold more new game consoles than any of its competitors in 2013. Can that winning streak continue for another year? The answer could be found within the company's press event at the Electronic Entertainment Expo. The annual trade show is used by Sony and other game...

Ubisoft's (OTC: UBSFY) open-world action/hacking game, Watch Dogs, has finally arrived, allowing dozens of embargoed reviews to flood the Web. The PlayStation 4 version currently dominates with 32 reviews and an average score of 82.5 percent on GameRankings. Metacritic found similar...