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Back by popular demand, the Games 5s five-a-side tournament returns next month. Just in time for the World Cup, the contest will pitch publishers, developers and retailers against each other on June 24th. Games 5s is supported by headline sponsor PlayStation. Replica World Cup trophies and Sony prizes are up …
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Nintendo turns back to toys to fix its broken business
There seems to have been two main reactions to Nintendo’s recent annual loss of $456m. The most prominent is that these huge losses suggest Nintendo’s time is up. ‘Nintendo is over,’ was what one prominent business journalist said on Twitter. It’s not true. For all its financial miscalculations, Nintendo’s main …
Read More »UK pre-owned games market made more than £79m in 2013
Pre-owned game sales grew faster than new titles over Christmas, says data specialist Kantar Worldpanel. Sales of second-hand games were up 4.9 per cent over Q4, while the mint games market rose by just 1.2 per cent year-on-year. In total, more than 79m was generated from pre-owned game sales for …
Read More »Dixons and Carphone Warehouse merger confirmed
Dixons Retail and Carphone Warehouse have confirmed that they are to merge in a deal worth 3.8bn. The parent firm of Currys and PC World and the mobile phone outlet will split ownership of the newly created firm, which will be known as Dixons Carphone, equally between their existing shareholders. …
Read More »Second month at the top for EA’s Titanfall
Titanfall is the UK No.1 for the second month in a row. Data from GfK Chart-Track reveals that the EA shooter was bolstered by the launch of an Xbox 360 SKU, which accounted for the majority of Titanfall’s sales during April. The game was part of a bumper month for …
Read More »Take-Two reports record financial results as GTA V hits 33m shipments
Publisher Take-Two has reported massive financial results after Grand Theft Auto V sells in 33 million units in just nine months. For the financial year, Take-Two’s revenue grew 97 per cent to $2.414 billion (non-GAAP) or in terms of GAAP, it grew 94 per cent to $2.351 billion, the highest …
Read More »Kinect-less Xbox One announced by Microsoft
Microsoft has upped its game in the next-gen race by announcing a new Xbox One SKU that doesn’t include a Kinect camera. The new bundle will include a console and controller and cost 350 – that’s the same as the current PS4 RRP and 50 less than the existing Xbox …
Read More »CeX Glasgow to trial Bitcoin for three days
The upcoming vote on Scottish independence has lead to a pioneering experiment in the Glasgow branch of CeX. Retail Week reports that the store is for three days only accepting purchases made with digital currency Bitcoin. It will also pay out for trade-ins in the currency. Apparently it’s an effort …
Read More »Boxed Amazing Spider-Man 2 swings onto Xbox One next week
Activision has revealed that the disc release ofThe Amazing Spider-Man 2on Xbox One will be in stores on May 16th. The physical copy of the game was previously delayed before it was released on other consoles on May 2nd. It was available to download over Xbox Live, however. Activision has …
Read More »MP calls for UK shoppers to boycott Amazon amidst tax row
Labour MP and chair of the public accounts committee Margaret Hodge has called for UK shoppers to boycott online retailer Amazon. That’s because Amazon UK paid just 4.2m in tax to the UK treasury this year (and 3.2m the year before) despite registering sales to the tune of 4.3bn. That …
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