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Best Buy’s UK online store goes live tomorrow at www.bestbuy.co.uk. The site will sell all products available in stores, with free delivery offered. However, the games section is managed by online specialist, The Hut Group. Users will be able to post their own video reviews, there will be a forum …
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Gaming heads to garden centres with Bright Red
Consumers can now buy their games while topping up for fuel, picking up the morning paper and even buying a shrubbery, under a new initiative by Bright Red Entertainment. The distributor has launched its new pallet concept Game Depot into non-traditional retail, such as petrol stations, garden centres and newsagents. …
Read More »“What’s the long term impact on Dundee?”
Games Investor Consulting director Rick Gibson on the RTW aftermath
Read More »OPINION: US ratings row a puerile, tedious waste
Moral panics are nothing new, but taking them to the Supreme Court in 2010 is madness
Read More »EA paid $17m for Chillingo
Electronic Arts paid $17 million to buy the social game publisher Chillingo, the group has confirmed in financial statements. EA acquired Chillingo last month as the social group was riding high on the sales of App Store blockbuster Cut The Rope, which last week passed 2 million downloads. Electronic Arts …
Read More »HMV selling Black Ops for £7.99
With the industry waiting to see whether next week’s Call of Duty: Black Ops will spark off another round of supermarket price wars, HMV has become the first retailer to break cover and announce its headline-grabbing deal for the game. MCV understands that the chain will be selling either the …
Read More »EA could pay up to $30m for Chillingo
Seventeen million already paid, another $12m on offer
Read More »OPINION: Kinecting with the market
We’re here for you, the reader. Any publication or website is. Without readers we die, and if at any time we forget that we’re here to serve you then that’s when the proverbial muck hits the fan. But the relationship between a publication, and more specifically a writer, and its …
Read More »Gran Turismo 5 is ready
Worried that Gran Turismo 5 was not going to make it to retail in time for Christmas? Worry not, for the game is being pressed onto discs and put into boxes right now. Speaking to Jalopnik, Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi confirmed that the discs are being stamped as we …
Read More »Landmark court showdown for US game industry
Schwarzenegger vs. Entertainment Merchants Association to decide sector content control in the States
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