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NEW YORK-- Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. reported a profit in its fiscal fourth quarter, reversing a year-ago loss, as revenue more than doubled on sales of "BioShock Infinite" and other video games. Revenue rose to $299.5 million from $148.1 million.
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NEW YORK-- Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. reported a profit in its fiscal fourth quarter, reversing a year-ago loss, as revenue more than doubled on sales of "BioShock Infinite" and other video games. Revenue rose to $299.5 million from $148.1 million.
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Electronic Arts licensed weapons from companies like McMillan Group International as part of a marketing collaboration for "Medal of Honor: Warfighter." Electronic Arts says it is severing its licensing ties to gun manufacturers- and simultaneously asserting that it has the right, and the intention, to continue to feature branded guns without a license.
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Electronic Arts licensed weapons from companies like McMillan Group International as part of a marketing collaboration for "Medal of Honor: Warfighter." Electronic Arts says it is severing its licensing ties to gun manufacturers- and simultaneously asserting that it has the right, and the intention, to continue to feature branded guns without a license.
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Car maker Hyundai apologized Thursday for a U.K. advertisement that depicts a man trying to commit suicide in his garage but failing because of his zero-emission car.
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April 17- Chubby-faced American Girl dolls and the "descendants" of Dracula and Frankenstein's monster are helping Mattel Inc boost sales to pre-teen girls as its iconic Barbie franchise shows signs of aging. Mattel said on Wednesday that sales were also driven by demand for " Monster High," dolls depicting the "descendants" of famous horror story characters.
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April 17- No. 1 toymaker Mattel Inc reported stronger-than-expected first-quarter results, helped by cost controls and higher demand for American Girl and Monster High dolls, sending the company's shares to their highest level in nearly 15 years. Mattel shares rose as much as 6 percent in early trading on Wednesday.
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Mike Serbinis, CEO of Kobo, talks to CNBC about Kobo's new e-reader model, which is the first high-definition e-reader on the marke.
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Carnival on Friday reported a quarterly profit but posted a drop in the revenue each cabin generates and lowered its revenue forecast for the year, citing weakness in Europe and pricing promotions.
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NEW YORK, Feb 20- Sony Corp took the wraps off its next-generation video game console called "PlayStation 4" on Wednesday that will allow users to stream and play video games hosted on servers. Sony purchased U.S. cloud-based gaming company Gaikai for $380 million in July.
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NEW YORK, Feb 20- Sony Corp took the wraps off its next-generation video game console called "PlayStation4" on Wednesday that will allow users to stream and play video games hosted on servers. The company revealed the new console, which will succeed the seven-year-old PlayStation 3, in New York.
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JAKARTA, Feb 5- One of the world's biggest pulp and paper companies said it would stop using timber from Indonesia's natural forests and only use trees from plantations in a drive that an environmental group said may be a milestone if the company keeps its promise.
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*Sales of Sweden's Minecraft game hit 20 million. STOCKHOLM, Feb 4- A pool table, a pinball machine, board games and Lego dot the offices of Mojang, the small Swedish company behind the wildly popular Minecraft video game, and one of its founders is wearing a tuxedo and purple tie on a recent "formal Friday".
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Feb 1- Mattel Inc missed Wall Street's profit and sales estimates for the fourth quarter on weak demand for Barbie dolls and movie-themed toys in the holiday season. The company, also home to Hot Wheels cars and Fisher-Price toys, said its net income had fallen to $306.5 million, or 87 cents a share, from $370.6 million, or $1.07 a share, a year earlier.
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Feb 1- Mattel Inc missed Wall Street's profit and sales estimates for the fourth quarter on weak demand for Barbie dolls and movie-themed toys in the holiday season. The company, also home to Hot Wheels cars and Fisher-Price toys, said its net income had fallen to $306.5 million, or 87 cents a share, from $370.6 million, or $1.07 a share, a year earlier.
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Nintendo, the world's leading gaming company by machines sold, said it will post an operating loss for a second straight year as the sales of its Wii U, successor to the 100-million selling Wii, faltered.
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TOKYO, Jan 31- Japan's Nikkei share average is expected to open lower on Thursday with investors likely to book profits after the index rose sharply to end above 11,000 for the first time in 33 months in the previous session.
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TOKYO, Jan 30- Nintendo Co Ltd, the world's leading gaming company by machines sold, said it will post an operating loss for a second straight year as the sales of its Wii U, successor to the 100- million selling Wii, faltered.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 13- When video game developer Brenda Brathwaite Romero started her career in the 1980 s, she could count the number of female developers in the industry on one hand.
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LOS ANGELES, Jan 8- Walt Disney toys are sold around the world. The media giant is teaming up with toy company JAKKS Pacific and Patrick Soon-Shiong, Los Angeles' wealthiest person, on a new line of toys- with a nifty technological twist designed to link the goodies that kids lug home from the store with Disney's stable of well-known animated characters.
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The collapse of the family behind the mighty Anheuser-Busch brewing dynasty has remained a mystery. Alex Berenson, Former New York Times reporter, offers insight, on his Kindle single, "The Prince of Beers," which goes behind closed doors with the final heir August Busch IV.