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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has taken an interest in developing a system to control virtual objects. After Apple filed a patent for what could be the company's answer to Kinect (the Microsoft-developed (NASDAQ: MSFT) motion-based control system for Xbox), investors began to wonder what Apple might do...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer will retire in the next 12 months. The announcement, which was made just 30 minutes before the market open Friday morning, came more than a year after Ballmer reportedly told his colleagues when he planned to retire. At the time, no one knew when he would...

Sony (NYSE: SNE) announced this week that its upcoming game console, PlayStation 4, will be released in North America on November 15. The device will arrive in Europe two weeks later on November 29. Sony did not say when it will release the new machine in Japan (where the company is headquartered...

Surprise, surprise -- Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) just dominated another week of massive headlines. Between the iOS 7 Gold Master and one analyst's proclamation that the iPhone 5S would be produce the firm's biggest product launch, Apple news has been a hot commodity this week. Sony (NYSE: SNE) made...

Sony's (NYSE: SNE) mysterious TV service could launch sooner than later if the company's new deal with Viacom (NASDAQ: VIA) comes to fruition. According to The Wall Street Journal, Sony has reached a preliminary agreement with Viacom for its unconfirmed pay-TV series. Unlike Netflix (NASDAQ:...

If PlayStation 4 and Xbox One have equal demand this fall, Sony's (NYSE: SNE) console could still lead the market. According to DigiTimes, unnamed sources estimate that Sony will ship 10 million PlayStation 4 units in 2013. This estimate is based on mass component orders that are currently...

First Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was expected to add apps (and most notably games) to Apple TV. Then Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) was rumored to be developing its first game console as a counterattack to Apple's efforts. Now Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is rumored to be getting into the market as well....

Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) new game console received a boost of extra power this week. According to IGN, the company has confirmed that Xbox One's clock speed has been increased from 800 MHz to 853 MHz. Xbox One product chief Marc Whitten joined Larry Hryb (AKA Major Nelson), the Director of...

With very little effort, Sony (NYSE: SNE) indirectly forced Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to completely change its policies for Xbox One. Sony accomplished this simply by maintaining old policies that have been in place since the very first game console was created nearly four decades ago. During its...

Sony (NYSE: SNE) appears to be in the process of building a new television service. According to IGN, Sony filed a trademark application for something called 'PlayStation TV' late last month. Though it may sound like a competitor to Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) long-awaited TV set, it is intended to...

When consumers look at the $200 starting price of Xbox 360, they may ask themselves, "What am I paying for?" The answer to that question is critical to the future of Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) next console, Xbox One. At $499, it is the company's most expensive gaming device (not including the...

Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) has officially hired Don Mattrick to take over as CEO. Unlike some of Zynga's other hires over the past few years, Mattrick is well known by the gaming community. Up until Monday, he served as the president of the Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT...

When Sony (NYSE: SNE) unveiled the fourth PlayStation in February, the company hoped to win consumer support before its biggest competitors took action. At the time, sales of Wii U (Nintendo's (OTC: NTDOY) (OTC Pink: NTDOY) latest console) had begun to decline. In fact, Wii U sales were actually...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) stunned the world last week when it announced that it would no longer require Xbox One users to connect to the Internet every single day to play their games. At the same time, Microsoft also eliminated the anti-used game measures that would make it difficult for consumers...

They said it couldn't be done. From former company executives who more or less told consumers to deal with it to analysts who did not believe it was feasible, many doubted that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) could or would change its DRM policies for Xbox One. This week the company changed most of...