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When the trade clicked open its Monday morning UKIE charts update this week, the big story was the data that wasn’t listed. Max Payne may be a worthy No.1. But with a three day headstart and a passionately connected PC audience Blizzard’s DiabloIII was undoubtedly the ‘real’ No.1 thanks to …
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Five top High Street games stores
MCV and Koch Media round off Independent Retail Month with our final special feature focusing on the sector. This week, we look at five of the UK’s top stores. Seedee Jons Established: 1993Stores: 1Based: Jersey, Channel IslandsContact: 01534 769405Web: www.seedeejons.com Games now make up almost 70 per cent of this …
Read More »What’s Out Today? w/e May 25th, 2012
Ubisoft assaults the FPS market with the long-awaited return of its flagship Tom Clancy shooter. Ghost Recon: Future Soldier equips players with the weapons of tomorrow and throws them into some of the world’s deadliest battlefield. The new Gunsmith mechanic allows them to craft more advanced weaponry, complete with motion …
Read More »Over half of GAME Australia’s staff let go
The first layoffs in GAME Australia’s administration process have begun, with 281 people being let go today. The company employed until today over 500 staff. Administrator PriceWaterhouseCoopers confirmed that of those who lost their jobs today, 264 of them were from retail stores and the other 17 were from the …
Read More »Sorcery and Doctor Who available on PSN
Sony’s PlayStation Network has got three high-profile offers for gamers to buy digitally this week. The BBC’s Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock is finally available to buy, as is Sony’s long-awaited PlayStation Move title Sorcery. As if that wasn’t enough, Ubisoft’s new squad shooter Ghost Recon: Future is also available …
Read More »No buyer yet for GAME Australia
PriceWaterhouseCoopers, administrators for GAME Australia, today announced some interest, but no solid buyer yet for the company. In a statement released today, PwC outlined that its first meeting with GAME’s creditors took place yesterday after the deadline was reached for expressions of interest in buying the company out. At the …
Read More »GameStop announces inaugural GameStop EXPO 2012
The US is getting a brand new consumer games expo. Retailer GameStop has announced that it will hold the GameStop EXPO 2012 in San Antonio, Texas on August 29th. It’s the first event of its kind that the company has hosted. In fact, it’s copying the model laid down bay …
Read More »Diablo 3 ‘the fastest selling PC game ever’
Around 3.5m copies sold on day one; First week sales projected at 6.3 million units
Read More »ANALYSIS: The pre-owned market
Before March this year, GAME and Gamestation were by far the UK’s biggest pre-owned game retailers. Second-hand goods even made up a third of the group’s total revenues last year. Yet this dominant force in used games has fallen. 277 of its shops have closed. So where do these customers …
Read More »Gusto Games ‘insolvent and emptied’
As many as 17 development staff affected, insider claims
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