Retail

Some of the biggest brands in games are not selling fast enough, forcing retail to slash 50 per cent off new releases. The High Street has even taken an axe to big sellers – such as Elder Scrolls – in a last ditch attempt to entice customers into stores. Since …

Forget the doom and gloom on the High Street. UK games retailers generated 268m in software sales last month. That’s a 1.7 per cent rise over November 2010. GfK Chart-Track figures show that 8,261,205 games were sold last month. The No.1 game will surprise nobody, with Call of Duty: Modern …

Online indie ShopTo has expanded its warehouse facilities so it can operate around the clock. The firm says it will pick and pack stock 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It will send customers a photo of their packed item, to show that it’s ready for dispatch. We …

Retail expert and "Queen of Shops" Mary Portas has devised 28 recommendations for the government to rescue struggling High Streets. These were published in the Government-commissioned Portas Review, a project that studied the future of UK High Streets and was published online today. Here are the Review’s recommendations in full: …

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has become the fastest piece of entertainment to generate $1bn in sales, toppling movie blockbuster Avatar. It achieved this milestone within 16 days of going on sale on November 8th, ahead of Avatar’s 17 days in 2009. Call of Duty now boasts 30m players …

Retailers are expecting overall market decline but are still optimistic. 80 per cent of store managers said they were confident about the health of their business in the yearly MCV Retail Survey. We quizzed store managers from High Street chains, supermarkets and indies. Upcoming titles BioShock Infinite and Mass Effect …

Peter Moore, the high-profile COO of publisher EA, has insisted that its recent release Battlefield 3 successfully captured a slice of Modern Warfare 3’s market share. That’s despite Activision’s game becoming the fastest selling entertainment product of all time. In EA’s favour, however, the game failed to best the week …

When you think about it, invincible red scorpions should have been employed as an anti-piracy measure long before now. Fortunately those clever chaps at Croteam have at last utilised the tool in its recent shooter Serious Sam 3. DSOGaming reports that those playing an illegal copy of the game are …

Publisher Kalypso Media has signed the rights to publish Telltale’s downloadable Jurassic Park game in boxed form early next year. Jurassic Park: The Game will arrive in retailers in the UK, Europe, Australia, South Africa and Asia in Q1 2012 on Xbox 360 and PC. There is currently no word …

An unlikely outlet says it can fill the void left by failing video game stores. BP – yes, the petrol station – says it is ‘uniquely placed’ to exploit any decline on the High Street. It follows the firm’s success with the Modern Warfare 3 launch, with over 300 BP …