Game stocks bloodied in market meltdown

Activision falls 28%, THQ sheds 39%, EA slides 37%, and Take-Two loses $40% during four-week roller coaster ride on Wall Street, capped by today's sixth-straight triple-digit-drop of the Dow Jones. Unless you've been in a darkened room playing Spore with the TV off for the past month, you're probably aware the US is in the midst of a dire financial crisis. That fact was underlined today, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 679 points to end the day at 8,579, or down 7.33 percent. That's the first time since 2003 that the index has closed below 9,000, and was the sixth triple-digit single-day loss in a row. But while the news was grim on the New York Stock Exchange, it was slightly better on the NASDAQ which saw its composite index fall a still-painful 95.21 points, or 5.47 percent. America's second-largest market is... [read full story]