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Ian Shepherd has said that UK retailers are routinely failing to correctly manage their customers. I’ll go out on a limb and assert that there is no retailer in the UK properly managing its customer base, including the ones I’ve worked in,” he wrote on his blog Moving Tribes. That’s …

Television network CBS acquires rights to new series

The excitement of Euro 2012 has no doubt played a big part in FIFA 12’s return to the top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track this week. It would be fascinating to know how many of those customers forked out the additional 15 for the Euro 2012 DLC, too. It’s the …

Three former Anima staff assume new roles at Hamburg mobile studio

The significant Japanese aspirations of retail giant Tesco appear to be over. Reuters reports that the supermarket chain has sold 50 per cent of its business to Japan’s second largest retailer Aeon Corp for a nominal sum. Tesco currently operates 117 stores in the country since paying 32.8bn for the …

One major games publisher has admitted that he remains to be convinced about the prospects of core games titles on Nintendo’s Wii U. As it always does when a new generation is approaching, Nintendo has made big noise about the presence of core IP on its upcoming machine, with Ubisoft …

Suspect roadmap claims next-gen console to cost $299 and will release in 2013 alongside Kinect 2

Valve has hired economics professor Yanis Varufakis, who will be helping the games company navigate the labyrinth of digital economies. Varufakis, a native of Athens, has become well known for mixing labyrinths and economics as an influential commenter on the Euro Zone Crisis, and author of "The Globabl Minotaur". It …

The British Board of Film Classification notes the BioShock Ultimate Rapture Edition as headed for a UK release. The pack will include Bioshock, Bioshock 2, and all of the latter’s DLC, Eurogamer reports. Without an official announcement from 2K Games, we’re left to guess on platform/pricing/release info; or if the …

A game show pilot based on the mobile hit game Draw Something is being produced for CBS. Variety reports the television network will ready a pilot of the Zynga acquisition, after beating out several other networks in a bidding war for the rights to the pitch. Sony Pictures Television, Embassy …