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UK: Like-for-Like Sales At Game Group Jump 41.2%

Game Group, the PC and video games retailer, has reported a 156% increase in underlying pre-tax profit and described trading in the current year as “strong”. Pre-tax profit before non-recurring costs for the year to end January came in at £75.5m, compared with £29.5m the year before. Sales jumped 86% to £1.49bn with like-for-like up a staggering 41.2%.

Game Group first half ahead of expectations

For the first 22 weeks to 28 June 2008, total Group sales were up by 54.0 per cent. Like for like Group sales (including Gamestation from 1 May 2008) for the same period were up by 24.8 per cent. In the UK and Ireland, total sales were up by 58.2 per cent and lfl sales were up by 28.1 per cent. In the International business, total sales and lfl sales were up by 43.9 per cent and 16.9 per cent respectively.

Nanotechnology? What are you talking about?

Trying to define nanotechnology is like the famous tale of the blind men and the elephant: Six blind men were asked to determine what an elephant looked like by feeling different parts of the elephant's body. The blind man who feels a leg says the elephant is like a pillar; the one who feels the tail says the elephant is like a rope; the one who feels the trunk says the elephant is like a tree branch; the one who feels the ear says the elephant is like a hand fan; the one who feels the belly says the elephant is like a wall; and the one who feels the tusk says the elephant is like a solid pipe. It's the same with nanotechnology – it is different things to different people.

Game Group Turns In Market-Busting Results

UK-based Game Group turned in incredible full year results last week, attributing the performance to the increasing range of formats available including Nintendo Wii and DS Lite. Sales rose to £1,491.9 billion from £801.3 for the year ended Jan. 31, 2008. Like for like sales were up by 41.2 percent and profit before tax was up to £68 million from £29.5 million in the previous year.

May Sales Down 1% For Tandy Leather Factory

June 5, 2008 (FinancialWire) Tandy Leather Factory, Inc. (AMEX: TLF) (Current Market Cap: US$ 34.36 Mil.) said that its sales for the month of May were $4.5 million, down 1% from May 2007 sales of $4.6 million. The company s year-to-date sales are down 4% to $22.6 million in the current year from $23.5 million last year. The company s Retail Leathercraft segment posted an 8% sales increase for May, with sales totaling $2.0 million compared to $1.9 million in May 2007. The 67 comparable stores posted a 3% same store sales gain for the month. Five stores that opened in or after May 2007 added sales for the month of $86,000. Year-to-date sales for Retail Leathercraft are $10.4 million this year, up 3% over last year's sales of $10.1 million. As of the end of May, same store sales were down 3% for the year.

Decoded Platypus Genome Spells Out 'Hybrid'

The duck-billed platypus looks and acts like an animal with an identity crisis. It swims a bit like a duck and walks like one, too (on those webbed little feet), but it's certainly no bird. It lays eggs, as if a bird or reptile, yet it nurses its young like the mammal that it is. Now, it turns out the animal looks like a hybrid even at the most minute level, its DNA. Along with today's announcement that the platypus's genome has been sequenced comes the revelation that its genes reflect its odd ancestry.

N Brown online sales rocket

Group revenue for the year was up by 16.6 per cent to £610.9m and operating profit was up by 20.3 per cent to £91.8m. On a like-for-like basis sales were up 12.5 per cent excluding the benefit of the 53rd week in this year which generated additional revenue of £12.5m and £1.9m of operating profit. Online sales have grown by 50 per cent and now represent 28 per cent of all sales, compared with 22 per cent last year.

Signature Devices, Inc. Signs Sales Agreement With Large Independent PC and Video Game Sales Force

REDWOOD CITY, CA -- 05/28/08 -- Signature Devices, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: SDVI) is pleased to announce that the Company has entered into a sales agreement with Strategic Marketing Partners, Inc. (SMP). SMP will implement direct marketing and sales campaigns for all Signature Devices video game titles. Under the sales agreement, Signature Devices has granted SMP exclusivity in selling the companies video game titles throughout their network of retail channels.

Majesco Entertainment and Interactive Game Group Announce 'Jillian Michaels' Fitness...

Majesco Entertainment and Interactive Game Group Announce 'Jillian Michaels' Fitness Ultimatum 2009' for Wii(TM) Introducing the First Game to Integrate a Celebrity Fitness Trainer with the Wii(TM) system and the Ground-Breaking Wii Balance Board(TM) EDISON, N.J., June 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Shed the extra weight while having fun! Majesco Entertainment Company (Nasdaq: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, is partnering with celebrity fitness trainer Jillian Michaels, the strength trainer and life coach on the popular television series "The Biggest Loser," and Interactive Game Group to deliver the first Wii(TM) game that combines a celebrity fitness trainer and the motion-based Wii system and Wii Balance Board(TM) accessory -- Jillian Michaels' Fitness Ultimatum 2009.

CIA Details Its Wikipedia-like Tools For Analysts

hhavensteincw writes "If you think selling Web 2.0 in your organization is hard, some early backers of a Wikipedia-like project at the Central Intelligence Agency were called traitors and told they "would get someone killed" by their efforts. But Intellipedia — the CIA's version of Wikipedia — now is so heavily used by analysts that the agency is using it in its security briefings, according to two of the CIA employees who work on the project. Intellipedia has been expanded since it was first launched so that now it boasts its own YouTube-like channel for video and Flickr-like photo sharing as well as a wiki where workers can debate different intel information."

GTA IV, Wii Push Up Video-Game Sales

U.S. consumers keep buying video games, with Grand Theft Auto IV, Mario Kart and Wii Fit taking game sales up 37 percent over last year. Sales of video-game consoles, led by Nintendo's Wii, were up 34 percent. GTA IV for Sony's PlayStation 3 was fourth in video-game sales, after the Microsoft Xbox 360 version of GTA IV, Mario Kart, and Wii Fit.

GAME Group boasts massive year-on-year sales rise, sees video gaming as mainstream entertainment

The video game industry is clearly taking no notice of the financial instability in the global economic climate. UK games retailer GAME, which now owns Gamestation, has reported a huge 86% increase in games sales year-on-year and pre-tax profits leaping from £29.5m to £75.5 million in the year to January 31st 2008.

GTA game smashes UK sales records

Critically acclaimed video game Grand Theft Auto (GTA) IV is on course to beat the record for highest first week sales of any video game in the UK.

Music sales through Rock Band compete with iTunes - and sometimes they win

Music sales through Rock Band compete with iTunes - and sometimes they win As music-based games like Guitar Hero and Rock Star continue to enjoy strong sales, they've also created an interesting niche market for music sales. In fact the two titles have reportedly sold more than 25 million downloads combined. While most of the songs which can be downloaded for each game are familiar radio staples, a handful are new or relatively new tracks that aren't nearly as well known. You might think that's a recipe for slow sales on the newer titles, but that's not necessarily the case.

Finet Group Establishes Online Game Group in Shanghai and Releases Three New Online Games

SHANGHAI, China, May 7 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Finet Group Limited ("Finet", HKSE stock code: 8317) today announced the inauguration of China Game, the holding company of Finet's online game business in China, and its strategic direction. China Game unveiled the timetables of its three self- developed three-dimensional Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games ("MMORPG"), which are "Warage", "Tang Dynasty II", and "Swordsman-Plus". The closed beta testing of "Warage" is scheduled to begin on May 13.

Finet Group Establishes Online Game Group in Shanghai and Releases Three New Online Games

SHANGHAI, China, May 7 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Finet Group Limited ("Finet", HKSE stock code: 8317) today announced the inauguration of China Game, the holding company of Finet's online game business in China, and its strategic direction. China Game unveiled the timetables of its three self- developed three-dimensional Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games ("MMORPG"), which are "Warage", "Tang Dynasty II", and "Swordsman-Plus". The closed beta testing of "Warage" is scheduled to begin on May 13.

UPDATE 2-UK's Game Group falls on fear demand has peaked

LONDON, July 3 (Reuters) - Computer games retailer Game Group (GMG.L: Quote, Profile, Research) smashed first-half profit forecasts, boosted by new releases like Grand Theft Auto IV and Wii Fit, but its shares fell on concern that demand has peaked.

UPDATE 2-UK's Game Group falls on fear demand has peaked

LONDON, July 3 (Reuters) - Computer games retailer Game Group (GMG.L: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) smashed first-half profit forecasts, boosted by new releases like Grand Theft Auto IV and Wii Fit, but its shares fell on concern that demand has peaked.

Penny Arcade Game Sees Record Breaking Numbers

Kotaku is reporting that the new Penny Arcade game is showing record breaking numbers, earning $330,000 in the first three days, surpassing previous record holder Worms HD. Penny Arcade's Mike Krahulik was very pleased with the result saying: "Given that our price point was double the other games on that list I'm pretty f***ing happy. We fully expected some people to complain about the $20 price tag but we honestly felt like our game was worth it. Pricing something like this is tricky. Obviously you have to look at the length of time it will take someone to complete the game but you also need to factor in the quality of the experience."

Report: New York City not welcoming to game developers

Even though the video game industry generated nearly $40 billion last year, a new study by the Center for Urban Future has pointed out that New York City has a startling lack of game developers housed in or around Manhattan. Even though other cities like Montreal, San Francisco, and Los Angeles have proved that game development is an incredibly lucrative field that relies on experts in a variety of technical skills, most of New York's computer experts instead work in the financial sector for money management firms and the like.

First Details of New Bond Game Released

CVG is reporting that the first tidbits of Activision's new Bond game have been detailed in GamesMaster magazine. Pulling from both Casino Royale and the Quantum of Solace films, the new game will feature mostly FPS gameplay with some third-person elements. "GM says that the core FPS gameplay is broken up with third-person elements, supposedly to remind you that you're 'being' Bond, which sounds like an idea straight from the 'brand' department. The mag compares the game's cover system to that of GTA IV, where the camera pulls out to an external view so you can see Bond on screen against the wall with his enemies in the background. A bit like erm, every cover system then."

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UK: iTunes album sales hit record high

image New figures from the Official UK Charts Company – the group which tracks UK chart positions – show that digital album sales climbed by 69.3 per cent in comparison with the first quarter of 2007. “That’s encouraging because it means digital music buyers are beginning to see album purchases as viable using services such as iTunes,� notes Macworld UK.

Cocoa-Like JavaScript Framework Announced

TwilightSentry writes "Ars Technica reports that a group of developers has created an Objective-C-like extension to JavaScript along with a class library mirroring Cocoa. They've used these to release an impressive demo app called 280 Slides. The article notes, 'Whereas SproutCore seeks to "embrace the platform" by giving a Cocoa-like development model for developers already using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to make a web app, Cappuccino and Objective-J take an entirely different approach. "Since Cappuccino runs entirely on the client, at run time, we're never actually generating HTML or CSS," says Boucher. "When you build an application in Cappuccino, you don't need to ever deal with HTML or CSS. All of your interface is designed in Objective-J and Cappuccino.

Nintendo Tops in Video-Game Sales

With all the hubbub over Grand Theft Auto IV, the video-game world is anxious to learn how the blockbuster game really impacted industry sales. NPD Group's monthly sales data is expected later this week, but some analysts have issued predictions ahead of the curve.

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