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Verizon To Woo Millennials With Vice Mobile Content

Verizon (VZ) users will soon be able to watch Vice programming from their mobile devices, per a new multiyear deal between the wireless company and the millennial-focused media outlet. The service will roll out later this year. Vice Media, known for its immersion journalism, is the outlet behind Dennis Rodman’s 2013 trip to North Korea, which aired on Time Warner’s (TWX) HBO. Its content is proving popular with traditional media channels. Vice and

Disney, Warner Bros. Pump Special-Accessory Games

Disney (DIS) and Time Warner’s (TWX) Warner Bros. are leveraging their box office hits for interactive video games that require the purchase of special-accessory toys. Warner’s “Lego Dimensions” game — which features characters from “The Lord of the Rings,” “Batman,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “Back to the Future” and more — is “the first true toys-to-life experience,” according to spokesman Mark Warburton. The Lego game pieces can be manipulated to

GameStop stomps Q1 forecasts with earnings beat

Video game retailer GameStop (GME) crushed Wall Street’s Q1 estimates and ripped out its still-beating heart in triumph late Thursday, thanks to hit titles like ultra-violent fighting game “Mortal Kombat X.” GameStop stock jumped 6% to 43 in morning trading on the stock market today. The Grapevine, Texas-based retailer earned 68 cents a share, up 15% year over year, on sales of $2.06 billion, up 3%, for the quarter ended May 2. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected GameStop to earn 59 cents a share on sales of $2.01 billion. Same-store sales rose 8.6% in fiscal Q1, compared with 5.8% in the year-earlier period. GameStop said its software sales were helped by hot games like “Mortal Kombat X” from Time Warner ‘s (TWX) Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and “Battlefield Hardline” from Electronic Arts (EA). For the current quarter, GameStop expects to earn 23 cents a share,…