Entertainment retailer HMV has been running a Six Decades of Entertainment promotion throughout the summer, but video games will not feature in it. The chain has so far offered discounts on classic films and albums from the ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s with the ‘90s and ‘00s still to come. …

UK video games retailer GAME has stopped accepting pre-orders for the Day One Edition of the Xbox One. Unfortunately, we have now reached our limit for Xbox One Day One Edition console pre-orders,” an update on GAME’s website reads. The standard edition console is still available to order, although we …

A Borderlands 2 Game of the Year Edition is reportedly being readied for retail, according to a GameStop source. IGN cities the word of the unidentified GameStop employee, who also provides a cut and dry image (pictured) showing the upcoming version’s box art and indicating the edition contains over $100 …

As of today all purchases made on Xbox Live will be conducted in real currencies. An update rolled out over Xbox Live has killed off Microsoft’s Points digital currency, replacing all fees with proper sterling amounts for gamers in the UK. Any existing account balances will also be translated from …

Walmart leak claims Microsoft's next-gen console will ship before PS4

UK retail giant GAME wants 30 per cent of the online video games market. The firm says it hopes to achieve this before 2014, and will do it via new services and cloud-based technology. GAME is the UK’s market-leading games retailer, but its online presence has historically lagged behind its …

Independent retailers are urging Microsoft and Sony to keep the cost of Xbox One and PS4 games at or below the 50 mark. Retail lists have pencilled in Xbox One and PS4 game prices as anywhere between 50 to 70. EA so far is the only company to confirm its …

Killer Instinct is not a free-to-play game, a key Microsoft exec has argued. That goes against what we’d all presumed following the game’s E3 reveal. Indeed, the fact that it is free to download with premium characters available to purchase certainly seems a bit ‘free-to-play’-ey. Not so, creative director of …

Retailer GameStop has confirmed that its store managers will each receive a free PS4 console. Joystiq reports that they will also receive six PS4 games – Killzone: Shadowfall, NBA 2K14, Madden, FIFA 14, Need for Speed: Rivals and Battlefield 4. They’ll also get upcoming PS3 adventure Beyond: Two Souls. While …

An apparent leak from an employee at US retailer Walmart suggests Xbox One will beat PS4 to market. Kotaku has received a list of supposedly confirmed midnight openings for the chain. Included on the list is a midnight launch for the Xbox One on November 8th. That’s a week before …