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Retailer GameStop is investigating claims that credit card and customer data from its website is up for sale on the black market. GameStop recently received notification from a third party that it believed payment card data from cards used on the GameStop.com website was being offered for sale on a …
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Gearbox teams-up with G2A, then tell G2A to fight fraud
Gearbox Software issues commandants for G2A to follow if they don't want deal to be cancelled
Read More »Gearbox tries to fix G2A saga with list of demands
Developer Gearbox has found itself at the centre of a storm over a decision to partner with online key seller G2A. It emerged yesterday that Gearbox has teamed up with G2A to sell special editions of upcoming shooter Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition. However, the studio seemed to be taken completely …
Read More »GAME talks up 2017 – Black Friday, Switch, Scorpio and its play for PC
GAME recently published its financial results for the six months up to January 28th, including the key Christmas period. We all know that last year was tough for retail, as a number of key titles failed to chart over the key November release period, and more recently Ukie reported that …
Read More »Rebellion’s 2000 AD and GAME headline this week’s MCV
This week, we head to Oxford to see Jason Kingsley and discuss Rebellion-owned 2000 AD as the developer has put out an open call for licensees on its wealth of intellectual property. We also talk to GAME’s CEO Martyn Gibbs about the reasons behind the company’s tough 2016 and why …
Read More »Car maker Subaru is hosting a $20,000 CS:GO event
Here’s some news we didn’t expect. Car manufacturer Subaru is hosting a $20,000 Counter-Strike competition in partnership with eSports agency Damage. The 2017 Subaru Invitational will feature eight top CS:GO teams from North America battling it out for a share of the $20,000 prize pool on May 13th and 14th. …
Read More »Snake Pass beats Zelda to No.1 spot in Switch eShop charts
Charts have arrived on the Nintendo Switch eShop and Sumo Digital’s Snake Pass is the first title to take the No.1 spot. The charts are based on the number of downloads from the last two weeks, and will be updated automatically, according to Nintendo’s Switch news post, giving players an …
Read More »Green Man Gaming hires Sam Bennett
Bennett takes EVP of customer experience and communications role at the online retailer
Read More »GAME will sell GameStop’s Deformers exclusively in the UK
It may seem like an unlikely alliance, but GAME has joined forces with GameStop for a UK retail exclusive. Games Industry reports that Ready At Dawn’s upcoming Deformers, which is published by GameStop’s publishing arm GameTrust, will be a GAME exclusive in the UK. Remember that following the sudden closure …
Read More »GAME to sell GameTrust title Deformers in U.K
Former rivals GameStop and GAME come together
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