funny & random MAZ on 19 Mar 2008
Daily Archive for "Wednesday, March 19th, 2008"
financial & news & video games MAZ on 19 Mar 2008
GameStop surpassed $7 billion in sales last year
GameStop’s massive video games store chain managed to hit a nice number of $7.09 billion in sales. The company saw a 33% increase in sales over last year and the company’s net earnings blasted off with an 82% increase to $288.3 million. They also saw a 50% increase in operating earnings and continued its expansion with 586 new stores in the last fiscal year.
R. Richard Fontaine, CEO of GameStop said: “Our performance in 2007 was impressive from many perspectives. But what is particularly noteworthy is that 2007 was a transformative year with hardware sales setting records and the installed base of users reaching an all-time high. Likewise, the expanding demographic profile of the video game player has moved this business into the mainstream of entertainment. This will be compounded by a strong 2008 video game title lineup and the value aspect of GameStop’s used model that appeals to a broad base of budget conscious consumers.”
GameStop also added that the top five selling games last quarter were: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Rock Band, Assassin’s Creed, Super Mario Galaxy and Guitar Hero III.
Via Joystiq
apple & cellphones & iphone & news & technology MAZ on 19 Mar 2008
Adobe developing flash support for the iPhone
Despite what Steve Jobs said last week, Adobe is still planning to develop a Flash player for the iPhone. Whether it will be nicely integrated with Safari or it will be it’s own browser (which Apple will be rejecting i’m sure) is still up in the air.
Here’s a quote from the Chief Executive of Adobe:
“We believe Flash is synonymous with the Internet experience, and we are committed to bringing Flash to the iPhone. We have evaluated (the software developer tools) and we think we can develop an iPhone Flash player ourselves.”
We’ll see what Steve-o has to say about that statement….
Via Engadget
