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Any company doing business in mainland China faces challenges. Such challenges include, according to the Global Association of Risk Professionals: relationship building, the role of respect, widespread tax evasion, weak internal controls and use of third-party agents. Here are four major...

"Destiny," the long-awaited first-person shooter from the creators of "Halo," set a new sales record when it was released earlier this year. According to Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), the game enjoyed the biggest launch of any new IP. This announcement came only...

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is rumored to be developing a smartwatch. The device is expected to have more than two days of battery life and could be unveiled before the end of the year. Not much else is known about Microsoft's plans, but a previous report claimed that the company...

New Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) retail outlets are cropping up all over the place. The Windows maker will open several new locations next month, including a store in Dallas, Texas on November 8 and another in Bethesda, Maryland on November 22. The expansion will continue in 2015 when...

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has agreed to acquire Mojang, the company behind the popular "Minecraft" franchise, for $2.5 billion. The deal was confirmed when Mojang published a blog entitled, "Yes, we're being bought by Microsoft." "I think it makes sense...

After months of hype for new, original content, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced that it would shut down its entertainment division. The Hollywood Reporter last week revealed that Microsoft might sell Xbox Entertainment Studios to another entity instead. Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) is...

Longer lifecycles could keep Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) from releasing a new console in the near future. Up until recently, the Mario maker released a new TV-connected game machine every five years. This tradition ended with Wii U, which arrived in 2012 -- a full six years after the original Wii...

Domestic video game sales increased in May and June, but the upward trend could come to an end in 2019. Eva Hunyadi, a research analyst at Juniper Research, recently authored a report about the future of video games. While Hunyadi is optimistic about present-day sales, she is concerned about...

Sony (NYSE: SNE) led the pack last Christmas, but iSpot data shows that another company persevered in 2014. "When you're talking about gaming, there's definitely the overall trend of the casual game companies getting more and more into the game and upping their spend on TV," Sean Muller, co-founder...

Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) are likely to spend more money promoting their new game consoles in 2014. For the first five months of the year, Sony dominated the airwaves, spending $59 million to advertise the PlayStation brand across 24 different TV networks. Microsoft spent $...

Virtually every major character and franchise -- Mario, Zelda, Star Fox, Yoshi, Kirby, Smash Bros., etc. -- will arrive on Wii U by the end of 2015. Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) could surely delay some of those games and save them for a later date, or develop something entirely new for the following...

It's not everyday that Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) receives some assistance from a competitor. But at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, Sony's (NYSE: SNE) E3 presentation might have given Nintendo a little bit of help. Coincidentally, both companies chose to focus on games that...