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Play.com has kicked off its Mega Monday sale, reducing a number of leading new releases to 18 or under. Deals include Midnight Club: Los Angeles, Saints Row 2, Shaun White Snowboarding, High School Musical 3: Senior Year Dance!, GTA IV, Manhunt 2, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, The Last Remnant, …
Read More »Asda makes move to buy direct
Asda has confirmed to MCV that it has started buying stock directly from entertainment suppliers – to avoid a Christmas stock crisis in the wake of EUK’s demise. MCV understands that the firm still had six months left on a contract with EUK when the firm fell into administraion yesterday. …
Read More »Assassins Creed 2 confirmed
As part of its recent financial results , Ubisoft revealed that it is unsurprisingly hard at work to a sequel to 2007 chart success Assassin’s Creed. The publisher would not commit to a release window for the title, nor that it would arrive in the company’s 2010 fiscal year, but …
Read More »Woolworths headed for insolvency?
Woolworths is ‘a few desperate hours of negotiation’ away from administration. That’s according to The Times, which quotes sources saying ‘administration is the most likely option as the retailer scrabbles to find sufficient funds to pay its monthly wage bill’. However MCV can confirm that the chain’s games buying team …
Read More »VAT cut cant stop poor December at retail
Retailers will need to use every tactic at their disposal” – that’s the message from a leading High Street analyst today as it predicts a gloomy December at retail despite Chancellor Alistair Darling announcement of a VAT drop yesterday. Synovate Retail Performance has claimed that it now expects non-food shopping …
Read More »PS3 to get ‘competitive’ pricing in March 2009, claims report
Sony will drop the European price of the PS3 to make it ‘more competitive’ in March 2009 according to details supposedly leaked from an internal meeting held at the company last week. Allegedly, at the ‘Sony Computer Entertainment Staff Annual Briefing’ held on Friday, SCEE president David Reeves said that …
Read More »Steam gives away GTA Vice City
Ahead of the release of the PC version of Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV on December 2nd, Valve has announced that those who pre-order the game via its online digital distribution network Steam will receive a downloadable copy of GTA: Vice City for free. Gamers will be able to access …
Read More »GameStop profits fall by $5M
GameStop saw its sales jump 5.2 per cent in the three-month period ending November 1st, but profits fell from $52 million to $46.7 million. The world’s largest games retailer also saw comparable store sales decrease by 1.8 per cent, primarily down to the launch of Halo 3 in September 2007, …
Read More »Imagine reveals NowGamer
Magazine publisher Imagine is about to launch its new gaming ‘supersite’, NowGamer.com . The site is to use Imagine’s back catalogue of content, from magazines including GamesTM, X360, 360, PowerStation, Total PC Gaming, Play and Retro Gamer. And the firm believes the website will be a ‘true alternative’ to the …
Read More »Outcry over suicide game
Online casual gaming is once again in the spotlight this week with UK newspapers expressing outrage at online title Billy Suicide which, as the name suggests, sees players attempt to prevent the game’s protagonist ending his life. The storm follows hot on the heels of recent controversial titles such as …
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