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A 20% plunge in the take for consoles and portable players weighed down overall U.S. video game industry sales, which fell 5% in May. The big drop was due to hardware's lower average prices, though unit sales were roughly flat.

With more access to movies and TV shows from the Internet to their TVs, consumers are continuing to look for ways to cut the cord with their cable company. The Yankee Group predicts that in the next 12 months, one in eight consumers will drop cable in favor of an alternative source for getting the...

Nintendo plans to widen its advantage over the competition by launching a new version of the Wii in a package that will include accessories that it used to charge separately for.

Nintendo and Netflix (NFLX) are announcing Wednesday that the Wii game console will be able to stream movies from the video rental company. The Wii is the most popular of the current generation of consoles, which also includes the Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox 360 and Sony (SNE) PS3. Netflix already offers...

Electronic Arts, the largest video game maker in the U.S., has released new guidance, and the numbers were awful. GAAP sales for its fiscal 2010, which ends in March, will be well below its November forecasts.

Sales of the Nintendo Wii console hit 3 million last month in U.S. compared with 2.14 million in the same month in 2008.

CEO Howard Stringer has come up with yet another plan to reinvent his company: a service to move his movie and music content to his game consoles and portable electronics devices like the Walkman. It faces two big problems

Video game console leader Nintendo says that U.S. sales of its Wii gaming system dropped 30% year-over-year to 550,000 for the week ending Nov. 28, according to numbers reported by Bloomberg. Nintendo cut the price of the Wii by $50 to $200 recently, while Microsoft (MSFT) dropped the price of its...

Sony (SNE) held its investor and analyst meeting on November 19th. Tucked among the presentation materials was information about the company's new targets aimed at getting its profits and operating income back to "normal" levels. The problem with the projection is that it is for the fiscal year...

Another day, another Black Friday ad leaked and viewable online for your Black Friday planning pleasure. This time Kmart's 40 page Black Friday ad has leaked, revealing exactly which toys, electronics and other goods will be getting special Black Friday pricing. Invoking their famous Blue Light...