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The UK’s leading games retailer GAME will be stocking Ubisoft’s Vita launch games from tomorrow. The confirmation comes from VG247, who were simply told: To confirm the Vita Ubisoft titles will be available in all of GAME’s channels from tomorrow.” Titles included in Ubisoft’s Vita launch range are Rayman Origins, …
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Want every bit of Mass Effect 3’s DLC? It’ll cost you $870
BioWare fans looking for the complete Mass Effect 3 experience face an alarming outlay. Destructoid totted up the added cost of buying every pre-order incentive and every piece of DLC available across the market. And in Mass Effect 3’s case, many DLC offers come only as part of hardware bundles …
Read More »PS Vita success in first week sales
Nine top-forty entrants with two games top of the pile
Read More »Xbox 360 10th Anniversary bundle incoming
The French arm of retailer Amazon has outed a 10th Anniversary Xbox 360 hardware bundle that is apparently due out next month. The SKU includes a 250GB version of the console, two wireless remotes, a disc-based version of Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary and digital versions of Halo: Reach, Gears of …
Read More »Speakers named for Game Connection America
Seven conferences and two masterclasses at San Francisco event
Read More »Software Sales Monitor: Market rises to £14m
THQ’s UFC Undisputed 3 helped the UK games retail market rise 10.2 per cent to generate 14m last week. There was also retail price activity on many boxed games. This caused a 14.8 per cent increase in overall unit sales which reached 615,298 during the week ending February 18th. EA’s …
Read More »New Argos CEO plots radical reinvention
The new boss of Argos says he has been given a clean sheet from Home Retail Chairman Oliver Stocken to embark upon a brand new strategy for the catalogue retailer. And speaking to Bloomberg, John Walden said that he’s open to the idea of potentially using Argos stores in a …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed Revelations: Ottoman Edition landing in March
Ubisoft has lifted the lid on the Assassin’s Creed Revelations: Ottoman Edition, as well as two other brand new games. The Ottoman Edition offers the full game as well as all the DLC that has subsequently been released. This includes The Ancestor’s Character Pack, The Mediterranean Traveller Map Pack and …
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: New roles for game execs
In MCV’s weekly rundown of thehottest vacancies and latest personnel news, GAME reorganises its head office team and we look at the best job opportunities. GAME promotes Brennan in head office restructure Two members of GAME Group’s head office staff have taken on new positions. Commercial strategy director Tricia Brennan …
Read More »FEATURE: Can we stop ‘suicidal’ games prices?
There’s no margin to be made on new releases anymore.” MCV hears this more and more from specialist stores every week. Once upon a time boxed games would be sold very close to their RRP on release day. But this hasn’t been the trend for years. Earlier this month we …
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