UK stores said Black Friday was their biggest challenge of 2014. 32 per cent of stores surveyed said that the sales event proved difficult. Retailers felt they were unable to logistically cope with the sheer volume of customers. Physical stores were overwhelmed by footfall, while websites were unable to cope …

Now that the new consoles have become more mainstream, Andy Saxton, consumer retail analyst at Kantar Worldpanel, examines how it will make this Christmas different, and how retailers can boost sales… Everyone knows that Christmas is a vital time for retailers, particularly for the video games sector as it is …

Specialist game retailers may be dead in Japan by the end of the decade, it has been warned. Kotaku reports that a Japanese games retail employee named Osho who works in sales for games chain Pao believes that the combined threat of online retail (specifically Amazon), the rise of digital …

While trying to grow our own business we continually look at our competitors, both large and small, to see which direction the industry is heading in. And as the market leader, it makes perfect sense to take note of GAME’s future plans. Some ideas require levels of funding that are …

US console sales triple in week beginning November 2nd thanks to price cuts and new releases

Merchandise firm Numskull is bringing a touch of retro to this year’s festive season, with a new range of gaming-themed jumpers. The jumpers span a variety of older titles, with pixels transformed into yuletide weave. The Street Fighter jumper sees series staples Ryu and Ken pulling the hadouken fighting move …

In June last year, GfK Chart-Track announced that the Xbox 360 had overtaken Nintendo’s Wii to become the UK’s best-selling home console for that generation. With almost nine million units sold, the machine is second only to the monolithic PS2 in terms of home console sales in the UK. Launched …

It seems that Microsoft’s $2.5bn acquisition of Minecraft creator Mojang doesn’t mean the retail version of the brick-building game will launch on Xbox One ahead of its rival, the PS4. Microsoft’s Xbox News Wire has dated the release of the massively popular title on Xbox One for November 18th, priced …

Earlier this week MCV held its first ever Games Retail 2020 conference at BAFTA – a day-long event looking at the future of selling video games. Here are the 12 things we discovered… 1.Boxed games really are not going anywhere In a talk filled with data, Chart-Track director Dorian Bloch …

Bracknell-based indie Virtual Games has sponsored local driver Paul Inglis. Inglis was representing ‘Team Hard’ in the last round of this year’s Volkswagen Cup at Donnington Race Circuit, which also held the GT Championship that weekend. Team Hard owner and British Touring Car racer Tony Gilham said that "For a …