Microsoft soundly beat its 2010 sales forecast for the Kinect, a motion-sensor device that enables players to use body movements — instead of controllers — to play games on the Xbox console.
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Activision Blizzard’s shares fell after the video-game maker forecast that 2011 sales would fall short of analysts’ estimates and announced that it would cease creating Guitar Hero games because of lackluster sales.
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Activision Blizzard has added video-game competitor Electronic Arts to its $400 million countersuit against two former executives of “Call of Duty” creator Infinity Ward, claiming that EA tried to lure the executives away while…
Microsoft sold out of its Xbox video-game console in late December thanks to strong holiday-season demand, and may have product shortages in January and February as well, as the company’s Kinect motion-sensor device has boosted…
U.S. gamers spent about the same amount of money on video games last year as they did in 2009, even as sales of consoles and other hardware took a plunge. Purchases of physical game discs slid 5%, in spite of the record-breakin…