Retailer GAME has announced that it has rolled out its in-store digital games offering to 1,200 stores across the world. The move follows a successful trial of the scheme in the chain’s UK stores. The new territories now in on scheme are Ireland, France, Spain, Scandinavia and Australia. The range …

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EA’s ‘casual’ division EA Play may not, at first glance, be the cutting edge of the company.It looks after family oriented products like The Sims (11-years-old and counting) and Harry Potter (the ninth EA game adaption of that came out last week). But it’s actually at the centre of its …

Total Disc Repair has purchased two of its rivals. The firm – which provides disc repair machines to retailers – has acquired both PerfectPlay and ELM Digitalia UK. Customers of the two companies will now be able to order online with free delivery, get next-day shipping on all orders and …

Japanese sales success Inazuma Eleven will hit UK shelves on August 26th, three years after its original release. It’s an RPG-style football game for DS with over-the-top moves and over 1,000 in-game players to choose from. It originally went on sale in Japan in August 2008 and entered the sales …

The standard SKU of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations will be accompanied by no less than two special editions at launch. Ubisoft has announced it will release a collector’s edition, which will feature an artbook, the game’s soundtrack and a copy of a new animated movie, Assassin’s Creed: Embers. This version will …

The US arm of online retailer Amazon has lifted its temporary block on 3DS sales. And no doubt much to the disappointment of the legions of conspiracy theorists and headline hunters, it transpires that the cause was nothing more sinister than a shipping complication. An internal Amazon.com shipping issue triggered …

Event director Alexa Turness explains how the show is bridging the gap between industry and consumer

The US arm of online retailer Amazon has suspended sales of Nintendo’s new handheld the 3DS. While this item is available from other marketplace sellers on this page, it is not currently offered by Amazon.com because customers have told us there may be something wrong with our inventory of the …

It’s an industry story that just won’t go away. And judging by comments from Take-Two COO Karl Slatoff, the publisher is quite happy for the rumours to persist. While on the one hand saying that Take-Two works well as an independent publisher, in an interview with IndustryGamers Slatoff said that …