Specialist retail chain Gamestation has announced it will open its 250th store in Meadowhall, Sheffield on Friday November 28th. The fastest growing games retailer will kick off proceedings on Thursday with an exclusive preview party, before the store opens to the public at 9am on Friday. The first 50 customers …

CEO claims that global games retailer will give out $800 million worth of trade-in credit notes this year

The CEO of leading North American and global games retailer GameStop has insisted that the pre-owned sector is a vital element in the market for new games, and that moves from publishers to limit the ‘transferability’ of titles are a ‘bone of contention’ for consumers. Speaking to Gamasutra, CEO Dan …

Trading in the shares of the Woolworths Group has been suspended on the London Stock Exchange. The company said trading would resume once it had announced whether it would be selling its BBC show distribution service and its chain of retail stores. In a statement, the firm’s Board also confirmed …

Professor Layton and the Curious Village has gone missing from store shelves as Nintendo struggle to supply the sensational demand for its DS hit. The game has sold out online at GAME, HMV, Gameplay, Zavvi and Shopto and stock is limited on the High Street. Consumers are now selling their …

Woolworths has rubbished reports that it is planning to shut down its retail website. Retail Week reported earlier today that the chain was to stop selling toys online – and that it was eventually planning to take down the site altogether. However, a spokesperson told MCV: Reports that we are …

This time last year we began to understand that US sub-prime mortgages had infected the entire financial system, bringing on an acute case of credit crunch. Markets have fallen ever since, as relief at the unprecedented global government assistance that’s been doled out at what’s left of the banking industry …

SCEA has denied recent reports that the company is looking to re-evaluate the price of PS3 early next year. Amongst the plethora of titbits revealed in SCEE’s leaked internal meeting yesterday was the claim that the company intends to make the European PS3 price more competitive” next March. However, a …

The company looking to snap up Woolworths for 1 seems to have revised its deal following emergency talks over the weekend. According to The Daily Mail, Hilco still wishes to buy Woolies’ 840 High Street stores for a nominal 1. However, the company is thought to have tabled a last-ditch …

Is the industry’s hunch that Government is on its side jumping the gun? We’ll have to wait and see (and according to the DCMS we won’t have to wait long). But it’s not like ELSPA’s positive attitude is without merit. Unless it was just a spectacular coincidence that, when speaking …