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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Atari: Majority Owner Infogrames Offers To Buy Remaining Shares At $1.68; No Premium To Recent Price	Atari (ATAR), a struggling video game software company which dominated the industry’s early years, late yesterday revealed that Infogrames Entertainment, which already owns a 51.6% stake, has offered to buy the rest for $1.68 a share. That would be exactly 2 pennies above yesterday’s closing price. Atari actually made the offer on March 5 in a letter to the Atari board which was dated March 5. Infogrames asked for a response by the end of business on March 11. Atari today is unchang...	March 07, 2008
The Video Game Industry: Nintendo Back In The Lead	Related Stocks: ATAR, ATVI, CCOEF.PK, ERTS, GGOPF.PK, GLOFF.PK, GME, KNM, LOGI, MCZ, MSFT, MWY, NCBDF.PK, NTDOY.PK, SGAMY.PK, SNE, SQNXF.PK, THQI, TTWO, UBI, VIVEF.PK The Good Doctor submits: The video game industry spans the globe and has emerged as a significant segment of the economic landscape. An analysis of its size and growth rate, along with an identification of the major companies in the industry, sheds important light on the existence of ...	July 12, 2007
Nintendo leads the way as video game sales surge	Filed under: Products and services, Competitive strategy, Marketing and advertising, Sony Corp ADR (SNE), Electronic Arts (ERTS)Sony Corp.'s (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation 3 woes continue, as Nintendo Wii continues to pwn the new console. April video games sales rose 20%. PlayStation 3, which was launched alongside the Wii in November, sold just 82,000 units, down from 130,000 in March. Wii sold 360,000 units in the U.S., up from 259,000 in March. Here's what's most telling: PlayStation 2, which was l...	May 20, 2007
The 52-Week Low Club	Hancock Fabrics (HKF) Closing stores and default notice from banks. Dropped to $1.03 from 52-week high of $4.36. Technical Olympic (TOA) Home builder has ugly Q4. Stock down to $5.02. The 52-week high is $23. KBR (KBR) Construction company spin-off of Halliburton (HAL) falls with former parent's earnings warning. Dropped to $20 against 52-week high of $27.63. AMD (AMD) Competition from Intel (INTC) and rumors of price cutting on chips drives these shares even lower. Drops to $13.3...	March 20, 2007
Nintendo vs. Sony: Like Atari vs. Betamax All Over Again	Related Stocks: NTDOY.PK, SNE Roger Ehrenberg submits: I was trolling around YouTube and came upon three gaming commercials - one vintage ad for the Atari VCS 2600 (circa 1977 - check out the Wikipedia entry here), one current ad for the Wii and one new-ish ad for the PS3. After viewing them it hit me like a brick, and in a more intuitive way then I've written about previously: Nintendo (NTDOY.PK) has captured the imagination of families and casual gamers in a way not ...	March 20, 2007
Comments From The Stock Masters 3/16/2007	New 52-week lows for two of our favorite companies we have slammed in the past - Atari Inc. (ATAR) and Bally Total Fitness (BFT). Bally's has been on a terrible decline ever since control of the company went over to hedge funds - Pardus Capital Management and the Liberation Investment Group LLC who combined own 26% of Bally's stock. Funny thing about Bally's is the relationship to Steven Seagal's weight gain and the downfall of his career as it relates to Bally's stock price decline.Coincidence?...	March 16, 2007

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