Total sales like-for-like sales at Argos dropped 1.6 per cent in the retailer’s second quarter, down to 927 million. Growth remained positive in consumer electronics, however – but was at a lower rate than in the previous quarter. Furniture and homewares continued to show declining sales in challenging market conditions. …

A new report entitled the 2009 Corporate Equity Index, compiled by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, has praised three of gaming’s most high-profile companies for their treatment of gay, bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors. GamePolitics reports that EA, Microsoft and retailer GameStop were amongst the many companies scoring …

Retro fans may still be weeping after the news that Gamestation has burned the vast bulk of its retro games stock – but at least there’s something to rejoice in the news that the retailer is going to be the exclusive stockist of a new Sinclair Spectrum compendium for PC. …

High Street retailer Zavvi has heralded a successful first year on the market by announcing strong improvements over the performance of the company it bought out in 2007 – Virgin Megastores. Sales in its online operations increased an impressive 148 per cent over the last twelve months compared to the …

UK consumers will be able to pick up an Xbox 360 console from just 129.99 after Microsoft confirmed its latest round of price cuts this morning. From Friday September 19th Microsoft’s console line-up will be tweaked to offer the entry-level Arcade SKU at 129.99, standard console with 60GB hard drive …

There’s no doubting what game is spearheading the new retail releases this week – though if you’ve not yet felt a disturbance in the Force then it may be that LucasArts’ Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is not be for you. Anyone who saw Justin Lee Collins’ Bring Back Star …

Business Review On 29 February 2008 we announced a restructuring plan and concluded that our focus should be on cornerstone franchises in order to optimise returns on these titles. The key aspects of the new business plan are as follows: Fundamental change in business structure The Group’s business structure has …

Namco Bandai’s investment in Infogrames’ European and Asian distribution business will create an entirely new spin-off firm that could bring up to a quarter of the European trade’s games to market. That was the message from Infogrames CEO David Gardner as he revealed his company’s intentions to MCV. Namco Bandai …

French retail giant Casino is set to launch a major assault on the UK, with the firm setting its sights on stealing market share from DSGi, Comet, Tesco and Amazon amongst others. The firm will be launching its online arm, Cdiscount into the UK before the end of this year, …

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has edged out Sony’s PS3 in the US during August, shifting 195,400 units compared to its rival 185,200 PS3s. However, both platforms were eclipsed by the DS (518,300 units), Wii (453,000) and Sony’s PSP (253,000). "The PSP and PS3 systems achieved the greatest percentage gain of all …