Retail

Sony has confirmed that the constituent parts of its PS3 title the Ico Collection will be released on PSN in the US next week. Joystiq reports that Ico and Shadow of the Colossus will cost $20 apiece to download. The pair currently cost around $40 to buy on disc. Also …

UPDATE: No we haven’t, says retail giant. Reports have suggested that leading UK specialist retailer GAME has had its online security breached in the latest attack by hackers. Customer information, including email addresses and passwords (stored as plain text) were obtained from the company’s website and posted on the internet, …

Confirming rumours that have been circulating for a few weeks now, Bloomberg is reporting that Apple’s iPad 3 will be released worldwide in March. The tablet is said to include an iPhone 4 style high-definition ‘Retina’ screen, which uses a pixel density to high that the human eye is supposedly …

Streaming games service OnLive has announced that Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 will be released on the service in the near future. And as we’ve seen before, those who pre-order the game – which will cost 29.99 – will receive a free OnLive microconsole. It will support online multiplayer, 5.1 …

Trion Worlds has dropped the subscription price of its PC MMO Rift with bigger savings given to those who pay annually. An annual subscription previously cost 71.88 per year – or 5.99 per month – but this has now been lowered to 59 per year. This works out at 4.92 …

The UK games retail market had a tough start to the New Year. Overall revenue generated for week one stood at 20.9m – a dip of 34.9 per cent year-on-year or 57 per cent over the week prior. Just shy of 1m boxed copies were sold last week, representing a …

The special SKU for Tecmo Koei’s Ninja Gaiden 3 has been confirmed for the UK, although pricing is still to be announced. In the US it will be priced at $99.99 and sold exclusively through GameStop and EB Games, reports CVG. The Collector’s Edition will include a Ninja Gaiden 3 …

Supermarket retailer Tesco has seen more than 4 billion disappear from its share price after issuing a profit warning and revealing that UK sales fell by 2.3 per cent over Christmas. Chief executive Philip Clarke said: "In a challenging economic environment, we made good progress internationally but despite record sales, …

PR manager Neil Ashurst has departed GAME Group this week after three and a half years at the firm. He will be joining PR agency Romley Davies, where he will head up the company’s newly-signed Blockbuster account. He will support the rental chain’s growing games offering, as well as its …

HMV’s Xmas would have been a lot better had there been more video games to sell, says CEO Simon Fox. His words came ahead of news that the firm has merged its games and technology teams, leading to the departure of popular games boss Tim Ellis. Ewan Pinder is now …