Reuters – Online video games maker Changyou.com Ltd soared in its trading debut on Thursday, with shares up 26 percent, putting it on pace for the most successful stock launch in nearly a year.
Reuters – Chinese online gaming firm Changyou.com Ltd priced its $120 million Nasdaq IPO at the top of its indicated range on healthy investor demand — a rare sign of life in a long-moribund market for new issuance.
Reuters – As people cut back on travel and going out, they are turning more to home entertainment, providing a boost to the videogame industry that is under pressure to keep gamers amused and beat the recession.
Reuters – Apple’s iPhone has emerged as a serious videogame platform, fulfilling the long-held promise of mobile phone gaming and positioning itself as a legitimate competitor to handheld consoles.
Macworld.com – Zork, the legendary text-based adventure game that entertained an entire generation of computer gamers, has made its return â?? this time as a casual massively multiplayer graphical adventure game that you can play from your Web browser. Itâ??s called Legends of Zork.
AFP – Sony is cutting the price of its older generation PlayStation 2 (PS2) videogame consoles to 100 dollars (US) in a move prompted by tough economic times and a desire to lure fans to the platform.
Reuters – Sony Corp said it cut the price of its older video game console, the PlayStation 2, by 23 percent to $99.99, in an attempt to woo budget-minded families.
PC Magazine – Sony said Tuesday that it plans to cut the price of its last-generation PlayStation 2 to $99.99 on April 1, allowing a greater number of consumers to play PlayStation games
PC World – Sometimes it’s what a company say it’s not doing that grabs your head and twists it around. Case in point, Blizzard veep of game design Rob Pardo is flatly denying rumors the company’s been rapping with Microsoft about a hypothetical Xbox 360 successor (unimaginatively dubbed ‘Xbox 720′ by the mathematically literalist media).
PC World – Looking to scoop up a PlayStation 2? Starting tomorrow, April 1, Sony will cut the price of its gaming console to $100, down 25 percent from its current price of $130. Today’s announcement is the third price cut for the PS2 since Sony’s first discount in 2002.