Retail

Three members of UK retailer GAME’s senior management team have departed the company, MCV can reveal. Group Online and Digital Operations managing director Alex Croft, HR manager Malcolm Knight and Scandinavia, Czech Republic and emerging markets regional MD Adolf Kristjansson have reached agreement with the board that it is the …

A pop-up barber shop will be touring the country over the Bank Holiday weekend to promote the launch of Mafia II. The title’s publisher 2K Games will is offering shoppers a free shave and haircut – all they have to do is turn up at Joe’s Mafia II Barber Shop. …

American retailer Target is to join the likes of Best Buy, Walmart, 7-Eleven and Toys R Us in offering shoppers the chance to trade in their old games and consoles for in-store credit. Its pre-owned scheme was yesterday debuted in Northern California and is expected to be rolled out to …

Plants Vs Zombies will be released for Nintendo DS in the US in January 2011. The new handheld version of Popcap’s highly acclaimed tower defence game was confirmed by PR exec Laurie Thornton’s Twitter feed. While a UK price point or date has yet to be announced, the game will …

UK supermarket Tesco has become the first to launch a drive thru service with the arrival of a new trial in its Baldock Extra store in Hertfordshire. Customers can place their order online as normal and then reserve a two-hour slot at which they can collect from participating stores. Staff …

Bethesda has announced the Fallout: New Vegas Collector’s Edition will be available exclusively to GAME and Gamestation when it hit stores this October. Buyers will receive Lucky 7 poker chips, a recreation of the game’s Lucky 38 platinum chip and New Vegas-branded playing cards. A hardcover graphic novel and a …

Activision has at last revealed what treats await those willing to pay out for the Collector’s Edition of Call of Duty: Black Ops – and once again, it’s brilliant. Included in the box will be a RC-XD Surveillance Vehicle that includes a fully-functional remote camera that transmits a colour TFT …

As has been suspected for some time, Atari has confirmed that its Xbox 360, PS3 and PC racer Test Drive Unlimited 2 has been delayed until the first quarter of 2011. Speaking to GameSpot, Eden Games studio manager David Nadal said the extra time will allow for further polish, particularly …

Rising Star Games has announced it will be publishing Deadly Premonition on the Xbox 360 in PAL territories. The game will be released in the UK this autumn and follows an FBI agent, who must fend off supernatural creatures while investigating the brutal murder of a little girl. Deadly Premonition …

Dead Rising 2 will now be released in the UK on September 24th. Capcom announced today that it has brought the game’s European and Australian release forward from its original date of October 1st. The Dead Rising sequel’s release dates remain unchanged for North America and Japan, where it will …