Retail

At the beginning of October Tesco took the lead in the video games price war by slashing EA’s FIFA 10 to an astonishing 24.97, but this time it’s Sainsbury’s turn to lead the charge by slashing the RRP of Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. From midnight tonight the …

And you thought FIFA 10 was cheap. Tesco has today begun selling new Xbox 360 games at an all-time low price of 3.97. The games include Disney’s Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian and 2K’s Don King Presents: Prizefighter Boxing. The titles are available from Tesco’s online outfit, Tesco Entertainment.

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A mid-week release, the postal strikes – all the ingredients are there for a street-date break on Activision’s Modern Warfare 2, but retailer HMV has quashed rumours that it had been the first to move. On Tuesday many HMV customers who had pre-ordered the game received emails from the retailer …

Those who enthusiastically condemned the High Street to history at London Games Conference were wide of the mark: Because entertainment retailers aren’t actually reliant on boxed product to survive. That was the view from HMV this week, as the retail firm unveiled a revolutionary strategy to ensure it is still …

Casual games giant Big Fish has teamed up with Focus Multimedia to launch eight new PC titles at retail this Christmas. Games already released include Drawn: The Painted Tower, The Serpent of Isis, Flux Family Secrets: The Ripple Effect, Strange Cases: The Tarot Card Mystery, Lost in the City and …

In what will surely encourage the self-validating conscience of illicit file-sharers, a new study has concluded that people who pirate digital content end up spending more on it than those who don’t. A survey commissioned by the think-tank group Demos showed that broadband users who never pirate material each spend …

Sega has announced the highly anticipated action title Bayonetta will be released in the UK on January 8th. In a statement, the publisher proudly declared the game would be the first genuine triple-A title of 2010” for Xbox 360 and PS3. Sega America and Sega Europe CEO Mike Hayes said: …

Both LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition will be released in November. Activision’s latest release schedule gives a street date of November 20th for LEGO Indy 2 and November 6th for Ultimate Sith. LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues …

The High Street could have a new evergreen hit on its hands in the form of Nordcurrent’s upcoming Wii title, 101-in-1 Party Megamix, according to the publisher. The game is the next entry in the 101-in-1 Megamix series, which started with 2008 DS title 101-in-1 Explosive Megamix. NordCurrent is confident …