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Black Friday was huge for physical games retailers, a wild party that saw unit sales shoot up by 181 per cent week-on-week. The last couple of weeks have inevitably been comparatively slow, although still well up on what came before the sales frenzy. Now, in time for Christmas the market …
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GAME’s Gibbs on its new Belong arena stores and the retailer’s future
Since its escape from financial trouble and subsequent relaunch in 2012, GAME has been putting a lot of effort into evolving its business. This became very apparent when the High Street retailer forked out 20m for eSports and events firm Multiplay. But the launch of its brand new arena stores …
Read More »MCV’s 2016 Annual Retail Survey
MCV has spoken to over 170 indie and big-chain games retailers about the year’s ups and downs. These included GAME, Amazon, The Hut Group, GamesNation, GameSeek, Sholing Video, Discover, The Game Collection, Games Centre, Eclipse Home Entertainment, Barkman Computers, Console Magic, Chips, Playtime Video Games, Shogun Games, Insane Games, Game …
Read More »Xbox, The Last Guardian, Resident Evil 7 and MCV’s annual retail survey headline this week’s issue
For the last issue of 2016, MCV delivers its annual retail survey. We talked to over 170 indie and big-chain games retailers about the year’s ups and downs. From the most anticipated game of 2017 to the launch of VR, all the results and analysis are in this week’s issue. …
Read More »Call of Duty tops charts in difficult month for boxed retail
Shooter Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare took the No.1 spot in the November charts, making Activision Blizzard the No.1 publisher in both units and value for the month. Boxed unit sales were down 26 per cent compared to Black Ops III’s first month, though. And Activision’s shooter was not the …
Read More »Koch Media on its Superindie distribution label and the state of the indie retail sector
Only 4.7 per cent of UK physical sales of games are generated through indie retailers, according to Kantar Worldpanel’s annual survey. Competing with High Street giants such as GAME and online behemoths like Amazon: that’s the daily struggle of indie retailers. Which is why distributor Koch Media decided to launch …
Read More »Longzhu Gaming purchased by Chinese retailer Suning Commerce
The Suning Commerce group has purchased the Korean League of Legends team Longzhu Gaming. Suning Commerce is one of the biggest retailers in China that isn’t owned by the government, giving them the freedom to do what they want. With this freedom they decided to invest in the struggling LCK …
Read More »‘Black Friday is the worst thing to happen to retail’
The Black Friday sales event has had a deeply negative effect on games retail. That’s according to sources speaking to MCV, who say that the period is ‘the worst thing’ to happen to shops. Retailers say that Black Friday is a major factor in the UK software market being down, …
Read More »EA triumphant in massive month for UK games retail
October 2016 was a blockbuster sales period, with revenue from physical games rising 50 per cent year-on-year according to GfK Entertainment. 90.5m was made from boxed software sales for the month, while 2.4m games were sold – an increase of 41 per cent over October 2015. EA once again came …
Read More »Retailers: Third party Switch support impresses, but what about the price?
An interesting design and seemingly extensive third party support has got retail excited about the Nintendo Switch, but big questions remain after the platform holder’s initial reveal. It’s very Nintendo to bring something new and different to the market,” ShopTo’s head of commercial Alison Fraser told MCV. The early third …
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