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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is rumored to be developing a smartwatch. The device is expected to have more than two days of battery life and could be unveiled before the end of the year. Not much else is known about Microsoft's plans, but a previous report claimed that the company...

Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) enjoyed a nice sales boost during June quarter, moving 510,000 units of its latest console. During the year-ago period, Nintendo sold just 160,000 units. Despite the gains, Nintendo has only sold a total of 6.68 million Wii U units since the console was released in...

Benchmark analyst Michael Hickey recently predicted that digital downloads could replace physical game discs within the next five years. That may be good news for publishers that want to sell directly to consumers, but it could be the beginning of the end for GameStop (NYSE: GME). Could new...

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...

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...

It's not everyday that Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) receives some assistance from a competitor. But at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, Sony's (NYSE: SNE) E3 presentation might have given Nintendo a little bit of help. Coincidentally, both companies chose to focus on games that...

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...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) kicked off the 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo with a press event that focused on only one thing: new video games. This might sound like a no-brainer considering that E3 is a show for the game industry, but Microsoft initially promoted its new console, Xbox One, as...