PlayStation says it is impossible and dangerous to judge PS Vita’s UK launch on its ‘slow’ start in Japan. Despite selling some 325,000 units in its first weekend, Vita fell behind PSP and 3DS in Japan during its second and third week, which sparked a string of negative reports in …

The UK’s largest retailer, Tesco, has reported a 2.3 per cent like-for-like drop in sales in the UK for the seven weeks ending January 7th. It’s the chain’s worst UK performance in two decades. The numbers are in contrast to Tesco’s best ever international performance, with total group sales climbing …

Since Wii Fit in 2008, fitness games have established themselves as evergreen titles for a new type of gaming consumer.Zumba Fitness’ chart dominance over the summer allayed fears that the industry was losing the expanded audience cultivated by Wii Fit and Just Dance. And it is around New Year that …

I wrote this story this morning. And I took no pleasure in writing it. Let’s be clear about something though – the likelihood is that GAME and Gamestation will be fine. It needs to change, lean down a bit. But I’m sure it will survive. The scare this morning is …

The competition from supermarkets and online retailers has lead HMV to admit that it is reconsidering its interest in the video games market. Though the retailer’s market share remained static for both music and DVDa, its gaming market share fell by 16 per cent over Christmas. Games now account for …

Last year I became theproud recipient of a Games Media Legend Award. It was also my 25th year since I began working ingames journalism. So I felt the weird urge to write 25 tips for the young games journalist, based almost entirely on the mistakes I’ve made over the last …

GameStop has defied the odds by posting an impressive increase in sales of new games for the Christmas period – showing up retailers in the UK who failed to do the same. New game sales were up 9.9 per cent year-on-year for the nine weeks ending December 31st, with the …

Games retailers say the rescue plan laid out by TV retail expert Mary Portas to revive UK High Streets doesn’t go far enough”. Last month, the Queen of Shops published her Government-commissioned review into the decline of the High Street. The Portas Review explored the reasons behind falling sales and …

The marketing push for PS Vita will get the device into gamers’ hands next week – and it’s part of the firm’s biggest campaign yet. An experiential tour starts on January 12th in Manchester, with the Vita Rooms visiting Glasgow and London during January and February afterwards. It’s just one …

HMV’s retail sales dropped 8.2 per cent over Christmas. It is obviously still a challenging time for the entertainment specialist, but the results are better than they were when the Group last updated the City in December. The results are for the five weeks ending December 31st, 2011. HMV’s improved …