"Madden" storms video game chart in August: NPD
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Electronic Arts Inc.'s ERTS.O   "Madden NFL 07" football video game dominated sales charts in   August, market research firm NPD Group said on Monday.
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Video gamers, finally  emerging from the pixilated haze brought on by last year's  bumper crop of best-selling titles, are now turning their  attention to upcoming releases.
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LOS ANGELES  - "Madden NFL 2005," the latestversion of Electronic Arts Inc.'s   pro football videogame franchise, sold more than 1.3 million copies in its firstweek of release, the company said on Thursday, citing internalfigures.
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Nintendo Co Ltd's video game console Wii  outsold Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 by a ratio of three to one in  Japan in August, but Nintendo's overwhelming lead in the market  narrowed for the second consecutive month.
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Electronic Arts Inc. shares surged to an all-time high in Tuesday trading, a day after the top US video-game maker said it scored exclusive licensing deals with the National Football League and its players&#39; association.
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Midway Games Inc. plans to publish  a "mature"-rated pro football video game with the kinds of  violence and excess shunned by the National Football League,  the company said on Thursday.
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Blog: Microsoft's game guru leaves the company for EA--interesting, since he made a big deal about EA Sports title Madden NFL 2008 at his E3 address.
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The game is now expected to hit the stores sometime in the first week of June, due to an "obscure content error," Microsoft says.
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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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Blog: The recent stories like this one out of the Sony camp are becoming pathetic at best.  The company who formerly touted its dominance over the video game industry is left touting a 50,000 unit sale for March and a sales lead "for every week, except for the
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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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U.S. sales of video game hardware  and software were $1.18 billion in January, down 6 percent from  a year earlier, with Nintendo Co Ltd's  Wii console  once again outselling its rivals.
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The last 12 months proved to be a high point in video gaming, but what does the future hold?
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"Madden NFL 2005," the latest  version of Electronic Arts Inc.'s pro football video game  franchise, sold more than 1.3 million copies in its first week,  giving a strong kick-off to one of EA's top sellers, the  company said on Thursday.
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Video gamers, finally emerging  from the pixilated haze brought on by last year's bumper crop  of best-selling titles, are now turning their attention to  upcoming releases.
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The Los Angeles story headlined "Microsoft's Xbox 360 US  sales top first Xbox--NPD" is withdrawn because the data  supporting the story may be inaccurate. Reuters is waiting for  an update from the company. A new story may be issued.
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Data from NPD indicates that video games and hardware sales in the US were up 46 percent in August from the previous year.