Investors haven’t had a lot of luck with the video game sector over the past few years. Stock prices of traditional publishers have been down as new ways to play emerged on the market and many of those same publishers instituted turnaround plans that took longer than expected to bear fruit.

But as the industry gathers for E3, its annual trade show, there’s a sense of excitement about the future—and if the recent boosts in share prices of Electronic Arts (which hit a 52-week high at the end of May) and Activision (which climbed on news of a new method to monetize the “Call of Duty” franchise) are any indication, the sector could be on the move again.

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