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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: …
Read More »MW3 sets $1bn sales record
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 …
Read More »Happy High Street excited for 2012
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 …
Read More »EA: Battlefield 3 stole market share from Modern Warfare 3
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 …
Read More »VIDEO: Croteam’s new anti-piracy tool – an invincible red scorpion
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 …
Read More »Kalypso snaps up boxed Jurassic Park game
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 …
Read More »BP: We could step in if games retail fails
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 …
Read More »Downloads CAN go under the Xmas tree
Who says you can’t wrap up a download? GAME has come up with a solution to the biggest digital dilemma – how to make a download look good under a Christmas tree. From tomorrow (Saturday, December 3rd) all of GAME’s UK stores (and GAME.co.uk) will stock Xmas gift packs for …
Read More »Future PS3 show tops PSN download rankings
The free-to-view PlayStation Access TV show is a success.The weekly programme from Future Publishing has amassed over 14,500 Facebook fans since it launched and has become the most popular free download on the PlayStation Network. Episode one of PlayStation Access TV went live in late September after Future’s paid-for show …
Read More »GameStop reveals Vita memory card pricing
We’re yet to hear what Sony’s official pricing strategy for its new PlayStation Vita memory cards will be in the UK, but if the US and Japanese pricing is anything to go by they’re not going to be cheap. US retailer GameStop (as reported by the similarly titles consumer games …
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