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Activision Blizzard will lose its European boss in the spring, after two years of impressive turnaround. Joerg Trouvain is returning home at the end of March to be closer to his family, switching to a CEO role at German online travel company HolidayCheck. After a role as boss of EA …

The Joint Administrators to Woolworths have today announced that a store closing sale will begin in stores on Thursday December 11th. The Administrators continue to actively seek buyers for the Woolworths assets and negotiations with a number of interested parties are ongoing. Neville Kahn, reorganisation services partner at Deloitte, commented: …

The latest UK High Street statistics from Synovate Retail Performance show that the number of non-food shopping trips made between November 30th and December 6th climbed by 10.1 per cent compared to the week before – though the number is still 4.1 per cent down on the same week in …

Woolworths could be facing its last few days on UK High Street with reports that administrator Deloitte has failed to find a buyer for the struggling retailer. RetailWeek speculates that the chain’s entire workforce, which totals around 30,000, are facing redundancy. Details of the national closing down sale are expected …

Gears of War 3 is set to arrive in time for Christmas 2010, claims US games magazine EGM. The information follows news that Gears of War 2 has sold through three million copies in just four weeks. According to the publication, the third game is set to include a ‘five …

New retail and marketing categories are being introduced to the MCV Industry Excellence Awards. Although the total number of awards on the evening will remain at 17, the retail section has been almost entirely overhauled. Every retailer, whatever size or product specialism, can now compete for all five prizes. There …

Stats from Gfk Retail and Technology Japan have revealed that in the first week of November Blu-ray disc recording hardware outsold DVD recorders for the first time. In the same period last year Blu-ray disc recorders accounted for just ten per cent of the market, but falling prices in recent …

Simutronicsâ?? platform to power LucasArtsâ?? story-driven MMO

Acclaimed American film director Steven Spielberg has spoken at length about his seemingly deep interest in video games, but also criticised the way in which gaming still draws a huge dividing line between narrative and gameplay. I play a lot of action games,” Spielberg told Yahoo!. There have been a …

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