Andy Coughlin has been announced as the new Retail Sales and Marketing Lead for all retail-sold Microsoft products throughout Australia. Coughlin will be reporting directly to David McLean, Consumer Channels Group Lead at Microsoft Australia, and moves to the role after 10 years experience at Microsoft. His most recent role …

Mega Bloks is celebrating ten years of Halo with a new line of figures. The toy firm will bring Series 3 Micro Action Figures to retailers aswell as new brick-style vehicles and structures from the series by theend of September. The goodies – which range from 1.99 Hero Figure Packs …

The UK boxed games market has recovered from its ten-year low on the back of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Square Enix’s latest blockbuster shot to the top of the charts, and is the first quality triple-A title released in months. The UK games retail market was worth 14.6m this week, …

The High Street can play a major part in selling digital games, and Microsoft has the proof. Two thirds of Xbox Live Gold members paid for their subscriptions via traditional retailers, the platform holder told MCV. It highlights the extent to which retail has played a major role in growing …

The new-look Wii won’t have a trade price drop, but retail is prepared to cut the console to 79.99 or less. A new Wii hardware price and Mario Kart bundle caused a sales uplift in May. Now the platform holder hopes to repeat the trick with a new-look console and …

Two of North America’s leading retailers have reported significant uplifts in sales of PS3 consoles. This is thanks, of course, to the recent Sony PS3 price cut that came into effect in key territories on Tuesday. "In terms of recent trends, clearly, we’ve had two major events recently with the …

We’re told time and time again that retail can play an important part in the digital gaming landscape, but one obstacle has always remained – the iron grip platform holders have over digital console platforms. But international games retailer GameStop could be about to shatter that stalemate thanks to new …

As the saying goes, it’s always darkest before the dawn.And, metaphorically speaking, the High Street and online outlets selling boxed games have faced one long, sleepy night during these last few months. The 3DS price cut has started to rouse the market though – but the immediate PS3 price cut …

Looters kicked the UK games retail market while it was down last week, as the sector posted its worst results in ten years. The boxed games market was worth 9.64m for the week ending August 13th. It is the lowest figure since September 2001.Furthermore, just 526,351 games were sold – …

Challenged retailers would do well to learn from one of the High Street’s success stories, Apple, says the new head of EA Sports. In an interview with MCV, Andrew Wilson – EA Sports former studios head, last week promoted to president of the label – said not enough games retailers …