Rugby World Cup 2011 is now being sold at all major retailers in Australia and New Zealand, before its official release date. Tuff Kat Entertainment, local distributors of the game, have confirmed to MCV that the official release date is still Thursday 25th August. Regardless, EB Games, GAME and JB …

Ubisoft has revealed that upcoming release Driver: San Francisco will receive a full digital release on the PlayStation Network. Though no firm release date for the PSN version was given, Ubisoft Reflections MD Garth Edmonson told a Gamescom panel last week that it would arrive in a few weeks”, suggesting …

The pre-owned games sector is very beneficial to the health of the overall games sector, retailer GameStop has argued. Though they rarely express the opinion publicly, many publisher execs consider pre-owned games as unfairly robbing them of revenue that is instead reserved exclusively for retailers. But GameStop’s executive VP Mike …

Grainger Games is subverting expectations and transforming itself into a serious games brand by hiring retail veterans. MCV speaks to the new-look senior management team to find out what comes next. You have secured some retail veterans from not just Gamestation and HMV, but also Holland & Barrett and Asda. …

UKIE members will get a ten per cent discount on a full price ticket to the London Games Conference. The games trade organisation has signed on as an official partner of the November 10th event which looks at new digital business models for games publishers, retailers and developers. Keynotes at …

Trade group members get ten per cent off LGC tickets; Event set for November 10th

Following its surprise discontinuation last week, HP’s ‘fire sale’ of TouchPad tablets resulted in brisk sales and rapid selling out of stock over the weekend in the United States. Following the announcement of a withdrawal from WebOS powered hardware, HP again cut the price of the TouchPad to an astonishing …

Sales of PS3 hardware have enjoyed a significant spike in the UK following the machine’s price cut. A reliable retail source has told MCV that Sony’s machine saw a sales increase of nearly 65 per cent week-on-week following the decision to cut the RRP of the base model to just …

THQ has announced the Australian and New Zealand retailers for its Saints Row: The Third ‘Maximum Pleasure’ and ‘Smooth Criminal’ editions. JB HiFi will be carrying the ‘Maximum Pleasure Edition’, which will feature the game, a Professor Genki stuntman key-ring, hyper-replica head and a banner pen, and will retail for …

In MCV’s latest rundown of the industry’s hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, Warner is looking for a new sales manager, THQ’s John Aikins heads to Sony and GAME hires a Knight. NEW SALES JOB AT WARNERWarner Bros Interactive Entertainment is hiring a new manager of sales analysis for the …