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A fire at the warehouse used by Nintendo UK’s customer repair partner has affected a number of gamers. The Coventry Telegraph reports that Repair Tech’s offices were hit by a serious fire last week that required the night-long attentions of a number of fire engines to tackle. We can confirm …
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GameStop thinks that cheap digital games are a ‘mistake’
The president of GameStop has warned the games industry that it risks repeating the mistake of the music and film sectors by devaluing its main commodity. The average price being paid by a customer rate full game triple-A download is $22,” president Tony Bartel told investors, as transcribed by Seeking …
Read More »GAME plans GAMEtronics bays and GAME Marketplace for 2015
A national rollout for GAMEtronics and a new online marketplace called GAME Marketplace are two of the initiatives planned for GAME in the coming year. In June 2013 we launched a trial of our ‘GAMEtronics’ concept, enabling customers to trade-in and purchase preowned smartphones, tablets and other technology products through …
Read More »MCV to honour influential women in games next year
Special Brit List will recognise Top 100 women in games, followed by February awards ceremony
Read More »Less than two weeks to go until the Games Industry Christmas Quiz
There’s only 11 days left if you want to secure a space at next month’s Games Industry Christmas Quiz. This will be the first time our popular pub quiz has been organised in collaboration with sister publication MCV, and opened to the entire games industry. That means developers won’t only …
Read More »Games Industry Christmas Quiz: Less than two weeks to go
Don't miss out! Book your place for December 2nd's festive battle of wits
Read More »GameStop is closing its stores for Thanksgiving
US High Street games retailer GameStop has confirmed that its stores will be closed on Thursday November 27th for Thanksgiving. Many US retailers will typically open on Thanksgiving to kick off their Black Friday deals a day early. Black Friday is one of the biggest American shopping days and typically …
Read More »CD Projekt Red talks control and internal PR
Develop sat down recently with Michal Platkow-Gilewski, Head of Marketing and PR at CD Projekt Red, to discuss the virtues of handling PR internally at a development studio.
Read More »Xbox One sells 1m in the UK
Xbox One has smashed the one million sales barrier in the UK, MCV can reveal. It’s hit this number after out-selling PlayStation 4 for three weeks in a row, UK retailers have told us. The numbers are based on their GfK Chart-Track reports. The resurgence in Xbox One sales has …
Read More »Activision finally releases some Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare numbers
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is the biggest entertainment launch of the year – that’s the headline from Activision’s long-awaited sales press release. Some nine days on from the release of the game, Activision has revealed only that the shooter has beaten the sales of any other game, movie, album …
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