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Gaming is now a fashion in its own right. T-shirts, cufflinks, lamps and even toasters – the possibilities are endless for products branded with and inspired by titles. And the hunger for a wider range of spin-off merch only continues to grow. In the last five years the world of …
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Limited Edition Grey PS4s on sale for £19.94 in London today
Sony are selling the super limited edition grey PS4 in the UK today… for just 19.94. 19.94… 1994… 20 years of PlayStation? Get it? Of course you do. But there are only 94 consoles available and some gamers were queuing up from last night to snap up the rare item, …
Read More »Microsoft is publishing Rise of the Tomb Raider
Rise of the Tomb Raider will be published by Microsoft, presumably on both Xbox One and Xbox 360. That’s according to Xbox marketing boss Aaron Greenberg. Square Enix’s game rocked Gamescom in 2014 after it was unveiled as an Xbox exclusive. In the hours and days that followed non-Xbox owners …
Read More »Tesco says profits will be almost £1bn lower than predicted
2014 has already been one to forget for Tesco, and the news just keeps getting worse. The retailer has now warned that profits for the year ending February 2015 "will not exceed 1.4bn" – that’s well below the 1.8bn-2.2bn the markets had expected and significantly down on the 3.3bn recorded …
Read More »Nintendo has already discontinued some Amiibos
Some of the figures featured in Nintendo’s initial shipment of Amiibo figures will not be restocked, the platform holder has confirmed. We will aim for certain Amiibo to always be available,” the platform holder told Wired. These will be for our most popular characters like Mario and Link. Due to …
Read More »Amiibo prices hiked as talk of supply problems emerges
It appears that supply problems are hitting a range of Nintendo products, with retailers being forced to cancel some pre-orders and others increasing their prices. NintendoLife spotted that GAME has upped the price of Amiibo figures from 11.99 to 14.99 and even has receipts from one store to prove it. …
Read More »How PlayStation conquered Europe – Jim Ryan on DriveClub issues, vocal gamers and game delays
On the first anniversary of PS4, PlayStation Europe boss Jim Ryan tells MCV his thoughts on European domination, broken games, angry consumers, PS4 vs Xbox One and 2015 …on PS4 becoming the No.1 console of 2014 in every single European market PlayStation has always been strong in Europe. Even with …
Read More »Green Man Gaming is now taking Bitcoin payments
Bitcoin can now be used to buy games from online retailer Green Man Gaming. The company says that the decision was taken after 89 per cent of respondents in a recent buyer survey expressed a desire for it. For the time being it is restricted to customers who pay is …
Read More »GAME launches Christmas Shopper Simulator for PC and Mac
GAME has created its own video game about shopping. Christmas Shopper Simulator lets you walk up escalators, buy things, ‘fall over,’ ‘turn left’ or ‘stop abruptly’. It’s GAME’s effort at doing a Goat Simulator, and looks equally ridiculous/awful/brilliant. In the words of the retailer’s press release, the simulation offers ’15 …
Read More »Now Kmart pulls Grand Theft Auto V from shelves
A second Australian retailer has pulled Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V from sale. Kotaku Australia reports that Kmart Australia has joined Target – both of which are owned by Wesfarmers, incidentally – is dropping GTA V over concerns about its content. Following a significant review of all content in Grand …
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