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More than half of GAME’s customers use trade-ins to fund purchases of new titles, the firm has told MCV. CEO Ian Shepherd revealed the specialist retail giant’s pre-owned offer was a key driver in all sales over the competitive Christmas period. He highlighted trade-in as a real point of difference” …

Around seventy per cent of transactions were made in the last year

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EA has spoken for the first time about the improvements it wishes to introduce in this year’s version of the FIFA franchise. Last year’s game was both a critical and commercial smash, scoring a reputable 89 per cent on Metacritic and breaking both day one and week one records for …

Consumer pressure group Gamers’ Voice is campaigning for Activision to resolve issue with the PS3 and PC editions of Call of Duty: Black Ops. The organisation is preparing to petition to the Office of Fair Trading about glitches and regular freezing after Activision ignored its open letter, according to IncGamers. …

Upcoming handheldâ??s online store, dubbed '3DS eShop', set to come at handheld's launch

New York studioâ??s co-founder Kevin Slavin departs

LittleBigPlanet 2 has topped the All Formats Top 40 charts this week following its release on Friday 21st January. The PS3 exclusive outperformed its predecessor which only managed to reach No.4 when it was released in the week ending November 8th, 2008. It then dropped to No.19 the following week …

3DS platform holder Nintendo has seemingly ruled out the implementation of a Achievement-like system in its future systems. Following the arrival of the Xbox 360 in 2005, such systems have become commonplace. Sony subsequently launched Trophies for PS3 and more recently Apple launched Game Center for iOS. Similar systems are …

Rockstar’s long-awaited LA Noire looks likely to hit global retail on May 17th, if details from a leaked online trailer for the game are correct. Eurogamer reports that the animated short was live on YouTube. The link now leads to a message that reads: "The video is no longer available …