Call of Duty: Ghosts

Activision (NASDAQ: ATVI) is planning to spend a colossal amount of money on just one video game. According to Reuters, the company -- which is famous for producing the Call of Duty franchise -- could spend as much as $500 million on Destiny. Set for release on September 9, 2014, Destiny is...

Game of Thrones is one of the most popular shows on cable, earning an average of six million viewers for the first airing of new episodes. That number rises with each repeat airing, along with online streams from Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) HBO Go. Peer-to-peer downloads greatly increase the total...

In five years or 10 years, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) could deliver last-minute Christmas gifts with an automated, GPS-controlled drone. Until then, shoppers will have to wait for the UPS truck to bring them whatever they order online. Like most retailers, Amazon still promises to deliver many...

It seems like Black Friday was only days ago. Now, Christmas is less than a week away, and last-minute shoppers are scrambling to get what they need. Walmart.com (NYSE: WMT) is offering free shipping in time for Christmas, but only for those who spend $35 or more and order by the end of today...

Sony's (NYSE: SNE) newest game console proved to be the most popular last month. According to AllThingsD, Sony's PlayStation 4 outsold Xbox One domestically with the "highest first month sales of a hardware platform on record." IGN provided a few more details, revealing that Call of Duty: Ghosts...

Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) is continuing the trend of timed Black Friday sales, with the first beginning on Thursday, November 28 at 6:00 p.m. The second "event" begins at 8:00 p.m., followed by another event at 8:00 a.m. the next morning (Friday, November 29). With three big sales, when should...

Which new console reigned supreme on launch day? Which one will dominate the market over the next several years? Benzinga investigated Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) new game consoles to find out. Launch Lineup First and foremost, it should be said that PlayStation 4 and Xbox One...

Sony (NYSE: SNE) and most manufacturers typically produce game consoles at a loss until, but PlayStation 4 may already be profitable. According to AllThingsD, which got an early look at the PlayStation 4 teardown from IHS (NYSE: IHS), Sony spends $381 on every unit. The console retails for $399,...

Is it possible for one product to control the week's biggest headlines? If any, some might expect it to be the iPhone. But this week Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) proved that another one of its products -- the iPad -- can dominate the media unlike any other. There were so many iPad-related stories that...

Activision's (NASDAQ: ATVI) Call of Duty: Ghosts has provided the company with another billion dollars in revenue. This news came just before Activision announced its "better-than-expected" third-quarter results. The firm, which is best known for the Call of Duty and Skylanders franchises -- and...

Shares of Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ: TTWO) are up more than five percent after the company announced its second-quarter results. The company reported a second-quarter EPS of $2.49 versus the Wall Street estimate of $1.64. Earnings per share were up 2.16 percent from the year-ago period....

During the June quarter, Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) sold 210,000 units of the seven-year-old Wii game console. Wii U, Nintendo's newest game console, sold 160,000 units during the same period. Despite the sales discrepancy, Nintendo has decided to throw its weight behind Wii U and cease production of...

Domestic software pre-orders for Sony's (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation 4 are 55 percent higher than the software pre-orders for Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Xbox One. According to the latest United States pre-order data from VGChartz, consumers have pre-ordered a combined total of 834,242 games for Xbox...

The rumors are over and the expected names (Xbox 720, Xbox Fusion, Xbox Infinity, etc.) are out. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has unveiled its next game console, which is now officially known as Xbox One. Today's event did not contain the two hours of game hype that accompanied Sony's (NYSE: SNE)...