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Supermarkets have eclipsed specialists to become Britain’s No.1 games retailers. The likes of Asda, Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s have edged past GAME?and Amazon and made more money from games sales than any other retail sector, according to the latest data from Kantar Worldpanel seen by MCV. The supermarket chains continue …
Read More »Strikes threaten to wreck Walmart’s Black Friday
The threat of worker unrest could cause havoc for Walmart’s Black Friday push next week. Quasi-union OUR Walmart is planning a number of strikes and protests aimed at disrupting the company’s operations during America’s busiest shopping weekend. The first action began yesterday, The Guardian reports, with at least” 30 workers …
Read More »Over 100 companies will be at LGC – want to come and meet them?
A handful of tickets are left for next week’s LGC, with over 100 different firms already signed up to attend. You better have a good excuse why you aren’t one of them. 300 execs are attending – with over 100 representatives from different businesses in video games looking to grow …
Read More »EA wins LGBT equality award
The Human Rights Campaign has awarded publisher EA a 100 per cent rating in its LGBT workplace equality report. To receive the award businesses must demonstrate policies, benefits and practices that are best-in-class demonstrations of corporate commitments to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees”. Only companies that score 100 per …
Read More »Star Wars: The Old Republic is now, officially, free-to-play
After what can rightly be described as a mixed first year, EA and BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic is now a free-to-play title. Throughout the game’s early life subscriber numbers hit a reasonable 1.7m, although within six months that number had fallen to 1.3m and as of July this …
Read More »GameStop pre-orders point to great Wii U software tie ratio
You can sell all the consoles you want, but unless you can convince the people that own them to buy software you’re still screwed. So Nintendo will take great heart from the fact that it isn’t just the Wii U hardware that’s showing huge signs of popularity – the software’s …
Read More »Zynga loses treasurer to Twitter
Executive departs as company stock makes small rally
Read More »PS3 hits 70m worldwide
70m PlayStation 3 consoles have been shipped worldwide, says Sony. And as revealed by MCV last month, 5m has been sold in the UK. The platform hit the milestone as of November 4th, while as of November 11th over 15m units of Sony’s PlayStation Move accessory had also been sold …
Read More »BUNGIE: Xbox Live wouldn’t have made it without Halo
As Xbox Live celebrates its tenth birthday, Bungie studio manager Harold Ryan has shared his thoughts on how the service may not have survived if it wasn’t for the former Halo developer. Speaking to GI.biz, Ryan explained the studio’s guidance and leadership in the fledgling years helped push the limits …
Read More »OnLive app now pre-installed on LG series Google TVs
LG and OnLive have announced a partnership that sees the cloud gaming service pre-installed on all LG Smart TVs in its G2 series. The app will let users stream games on LG’s Google TV models, along with allowing access to save files on any PC, Mac, or Android device. Titles …
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