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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...

No one dives deeper into Black Friday than Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN). The online retail giant is currently hosting a massive Black Friday Deals Week, a period when the company promises to add new deals as frequently as every 10 minutes. There are so many ways to save that one consumer is unlikely to...

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...

The world's most popular pay-TV service has finally brought its streaming video app to Chromecast. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced the app's inclusion on its official Chrome blog, reminding Game of Thrones fans everywhere that "Winter is Coming!" Similar to Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), HBO Go offers a...

What do consumers think of the new Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) app for TVs and TV-connected devices? Thus far, the reaction seems to be fairly mixed. Netflix developed the new app to bring a universal menu experience to all of its users. Now when they turn on an Xbox 360, for example, they will see...

Sony (NYSE: SNE) is ready to release a game console in China. According to market intelligence and consulting firm Marbridge Consulting, Sony President and CEO Kazuo Hirai has confirmed that the company will bring its game console business to China. The company will begin by establishing a "...

In roughly four weeks, consumers from all across America will stay up late, fight through massive crowds and endure atrociously long lines to save a few bucks. If you are one of the millions of consumers who intend to do just that, start your Black Friday journey by perusing this list of hot deals...

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....

Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) are still a month away from releasing their newest game consoles, but speculation for the next generation has already begun. Christine Arrington, the Senior Games Analyst at IHS Electronics & Media (NYSE: IHS), told Benzinga that there is no...

Uninformed retail employees may have contributed to the sales problems afflicting Nintendo's (OTC: NTDOY) latest console. Christine Arrington, the Senior Games Analyst at IHS Electronics & Media (NYSE: IHS), told Benzinga that she realized that Wii U was in trouble when she became an...

Tech companies were determined to cram as much as possible into this week. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), for example, made an unexpected (and ultra-quiet) announcement regarding its new Kindle Fire tablets. Instead of holding a press conference, Amazon sent out a press release in the middle of the night...

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...

In January, China Daily USA reported that China might lift its ban on the sale of video games. "We are reviewing the policy and have conducted some surveys and held discussions with other ministries on the possibility of opening up the game console market," an unnamed source from the Ministry of...

After two years of declines, the video game industry is beginning to rebound. According to The Wall Street Journal, sales of new hardware (consoles like Xbox 360 and handhelds like Nintendo 3DS), new software and accessories have risen one percent in the United States. The collective sales of...

Xbox One suppliers are dismissing rumors that Xbox One shipments have been reduced due to the poor yield rates of two key supplies. According to DigiTimes, the Kinect camera module should not cause Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to deliver fewer Xbox One consoles this fall. Newmax, the unconfirmed...