AP - Japanese gamemaker Nintendo said Friday it was on the course of a record profit in the current fiscal year, bucking the deepening global financial crisis on surging demand for its blockbuster Wii home console.
Reuters - Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co Ltd will likely launch a new model of its top-selling handheld player, the DS, in overseas markets by the summer of 2009, President Satoru Iwata said.
CNET - Video game publisher Electronic Arts on Thursday cut its forecast for the fiscal year and said it will slash its workforce 6 percent, or about 580 jobs, to reduce costs.
AFP - US videogames giant Electronic Arts reported a hefty quarterly loss on Thursday and said it was cutting six percent of its workforce, or 540 employees.