Xbox One

GameStop (NYSE: GME) shares rose more than three percent pre-market after the video game retailer began accepting pre-orders for two newly announced next generation gaming systems. Monday night, Gamestop began accepting online pre-orders for Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Xbox One and Sony's (NYSE:...

Sony (NYSE: SNE) announced that its next game console, PlayStation 4, will come in one configuration and sell for $399 this holiday season -- $100 less than Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Xbox One. Sony executives also made it crystal clear that it trusts its consumers and will not attempt to lock them...

Now that Sony's (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Xbox One have been announced, the two companies are gearing up for the end of a very long console cycle. Microsoft's last console, Xbox 360, was released in 2005 and PlayStation 3 came out a year after that. Both machines...

When Sony (NYSE: SNE) unveiled the fourth-generation PlayStation, some consumers complained because there weren't any images of the actual hardware. Some consumers also complained about the lack non-gaming entertainment services (which will be present in PlayStation 4 but were not shown during...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is dedicated to changing the way consumers watch television, but it has no intention of eliminating pay-TV giants like Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) or Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC). AllThingsD's Peter Kafka wrote a piece speculating that, after...

Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) CFO Blake Jorgensen has confirmed that, contrary to the previous comments from company spokesperson Jeff Brown (and a barrage of negative tweets from an EA engineer), the company is developing games for Nintendo's (OTC: NTDOY) console. According to IGN, Jorgensen made...

The rumors are over and the expected names (Xbox 720, Xbox Fusion, Xbox Infinity, etc.) are out. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has unveiled its next game console, which is now officially known as Xbox One. Today's event did not contain the two hours of game hype that accompanied Sony's (NYSE: SNE)...