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EDGE: GameStop Reaffirms Q1, 2009 Outlook

GameStop has reaffirmed its forecasts for the first quarter of the financial year and its overall sales and earnings guidance for 2009.

"Based on current retail trends and the strong sell-thru of new video games released in February and March, such as Capcom's Street Fighter IV and Resident Evil 5, Microsoft's Halo Wars, Sony's Killzone 2, along with an exceptional launch of Nintendo DSi, GameStop is reaffirming its first quarter comparable store sales guidance of flat to +2% and earnings per share guidance of $0.40 to $0.42," the company said, suggesting it isn't overly worried by the slump in US software and hardware sales during March.

"Full year comparable store sales guidance remains +4% to +6% and full year earnings guidance is still expected to increase between +18% and +22%," GameStop added.

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7 Deserving Games That Never Got Backward Compatibility

Backward compatibility works for many games on newer consoles, but titles such as The Simpsons: Hit and Run have been left out.

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20 Best Survival Games of All Time

From base building to swinging willies, here are the best survival games around, which include a couple of less than obvious picks.

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Vader8212h ago

No 7 days to die is criminal

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Former Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider pours scorn on EA's AI dreams.

"They want you to believe the devs under them are super stoked to work generative AI into their processes," continued Gaider, "but I assure you what they took as excitement was really a veiled wail of despair not unlike the time that team was informed of their new 'really cool' live service mandate.".

LordoftheCritics2d ago

Publishers see gaming as another stock market.

isarai2d ago

I think anyone with some common sense knew this, im glad i don't support their games anymore, what a sh!t company.

Psychonaut851d 11h ago

Friends don’t let friends buy EA or Ubisoft.

Chocoburger1d 10h ago

I said this yesterday. AI isn't what we want when it comes to crafting artistry. Alas, these soulless corporate morons don't care about their work, only about cutting corners as much as possible.