EA Video Game &#39;Madden&#39; Tops 1.3 Million First Week
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&quot;Madden NFL 2005,&quot; the latest version of Electronic Arts Inc.&#39;s pro football video game franchise, sold more than 1.3 million copies in its first week of release, the company said on Thursday, citing internal figures.
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Video game Halo 3 earns more than Â£84m ($170m) in sales in its first 24 hours on release, says Microsoft.
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Football video game junkies have been anxiously waiting for this week's release of "Madden NFL 07" by Electronic Arts Inc. The annual release of this video game franchise has become an event in itself.
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Sales of Sony Corp.&#39;s PlayStation 3 game  console surpassed one million units in Japan in about eight  months after its launch, more than four times as long as it  took Nintendo&#39;s hot-selling Wii to reach the same mark.
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The video game maker exceeded Wall Streetâs earnings expectations despite a 38 percent drop in third-quarter sales.
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Electronic Arts Inc. ERTS.O on   Thursday said "Madden NFL 07" turned in the best first-week   performance in the 17-year history of the football video game   series with unit sales topping 2 million.
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The latest iteration of the hit video game franchise has broken single-day entertainment product revenue records.
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Electronic Arts Inc.'s   "Madden NFL 07" football video game dominated sales charts in  August, market research firm NPD Group said on Monday.
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Gaming giant Electronic Arts will boost production of video games for mobile phones over the next nine months, bringing top-selling franchises &quot;Fifa Football&quot; and &quot;The Sims&quot; to handsets, the company says.
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Sony's game unit said Monday that it had sold 1.2 million PlayStation 3 video game consoles in North America during the key year-end holiday shopping season.
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Microsoft&#39;s video game division is taking a one-two punch. Earlier this month came news that the software giant was taking a charge of more than $1 billion to pay for costs related to extending the Xbox 360 warranty to three years. Now Peter Moore, the company&#39;s Xbox standard-bearer for the last four years is resigning to join EA Sports as its president. Replacing Moore at Microsoft as senior vice president of interactive entertainment business (Xbox and Games for Windows) is Don Mattrick, who was once EA&#39;s president of its worldwide studios.
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Was absenteeism a little high on Tuesday among the guys at the office? EA Sports would like to think it was because "Madden NFL 2005" came out that day, and some fans of the football simulation are rabid enough to take a sick day to play it.
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Microsoft Corp.'s alien-killer gaming thrill, "Halo 3," has broken the U.S. sales record for a new video game by garnering an estimated US$170 million in its first 24-hours on sale, the company said late Wednesday.
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The video game company leads the way with advertising placements.
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At $170 million in sales in its first day out, the video game 'Halo 3' bests movie blockbusters and boy wizards for entertainment spending.
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The company's stock is not as popular as Madden NFL 2005, with its top sales numbers. Yet.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.  - Was absenteeism a little high  on Tuesday among the guys at the office? EA Sports would like  to think it was because "Madden NFL 2005" came out that day,  and some fans of the football simulation are rabid enough to  take a sick day to play it.