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THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) and Syfy™, the premier destination for imagination-based entertainment, today announced a first-of-a-kind transmedia deal to debut Red Faction®: OriginsTM (working title), a two hour live-action movie pilot scheduled to air in March 2011 on Syfy. The story of Red Faction:...

Live Gamer, the trusted total commerce solution for the interactive entertainment industry, today announced that it has been selected by THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) to power the e-commerce solutions for the company's PC-online and mobile games in North America. Company of Heroes® Online, launching...

Cusick’s Corner The market affirmed today that the downward slope is still in place with no bounce into the After Hours. Folks, this is a traders market. This move today was based on higher volume and involved a larger number of sectors on the downside. We again want to see if the 1050-1040...

Video game sales are continuing to slump into June. Software sales were down 15%, worse than expectations of a 12% decline. The best selling game in June was Take Two's (NASDAQ: TTWO) Red Dead Redemption. Other top selling titles were Nintendo's Super Mario Galaxy 2, Disney's Toy Story 3, and...

Below are the top application software stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of profit margin. The trailing-twelve-month profit margin at Perfect World Co Ltd (NASDAQ: PWRD) is 48.07%. While PWRD’s shares have fallen 14.58% over the past 52 weeks, the S&P 500 index has gained 20.55% in the...

Deutsche Bank maintained its Hold rating for THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) but lowered the price target to $4.50 from $7.00. THQ is a publisher of video games. Analysts Jeetil Patel, Herman Leung, and Matt Chesler said, "Our estimates are adjusted reflecting our tempered view of the video game software...

Who wouldn't like debt free stocks selling at or near cash. These are stocks which have virtually no debt and are trading close to the amount of cash the company has per share. Without any debt and a lot of cash, it would be hard for a company to go out of business. In addition, the cash can make...

According to Auriga, “The online game sector was one of the best performers post the 2008 worldwide financial crisis; however, it has not been performing well in the last several quarters.” “We believe there are several reasons: 1) investors took profits and rotated out of the game sector; 2)...

Cusick’s Corner Defense! Defense! Risk adverse trade is on in full force this morning after the market received a jolt first from the gloomy China growth downgrade and then the much lower consumer confidence, potentially signaling a double dip recession. Bonds are on a tear and yields as I write...

With the biggest conference for the video game industry E3 2010 concluding last week, interest in the video game industry is high as both gamers and investors look towards the crucial second half of the year. Beyond the standard racing and war games as well as the umpteenth iteration of Donkey Kong...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (TheStreet) -- Electronic Arts(Nasdaq: ERTS), Dell(Nasdaq: DELL) and Qualcomm(Nasdaq: QCOM) have more in common than just a Nasdaq listing. Along with Johnson & Johnson(NYSE: JNJ) and Motorola(NYSE: MOT), the tech firms are among the 4,000-plus customers of Informatica(...

Stocks Loose Ground After Greek Downgrade Stocks closed slightly lower on Monday on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (10,190.89 , down 20.18) and the S&P 500 (1,089.63, down 1.97) as the latest downgrade of Greece’s debt weighed on investors. In recent weeks stocks have been overly sensitive to...

Shares of JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ: JBLU) gained more than 6% after the analysts at Merrill Lynch upgraded JBLU from “neutral” to “buy.” According to the analysts, the budget carrier is benefiting from strong peak-demand months. The analysts say, "In recent quarters, JetBlue's yields have positively...

The technology sector is in the black today, with the sector’s major stocks trading high. Video games makers are geared for action as the annual E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo is ready to roll. The Nasdaq Composite Index rose almost 27.92 points, or 1.24%, to 2,272. The Philadelphia Semiconductor...