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Microsoft’s first retail stores will be located in Scottsdale, Arizona and Mission Viejo, California, it has been revealed. The vendor signed leases on the two properties, and plans to open them by the end of Autumn, according to CNET. A spokesperson for the company told the website that the bricks …
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MS assures retail about games-on-demand
With Xbox 360’s full games-on-demand service now just days away, Microsoft’s VP of strategy and business development for Interactive Entertainment Shane Kim has stated that any possibility of digital releases going day and date with retail is a long way off. There are a lot of complex issues to deal …
Read More »RETAIL BIZ: Ashes Cricket 2009
Head over to the RETAIL BIZ Previews section, where you can find our take on the hottest games heading to retail in the next few months. This week, we take a look Codemasters’ Ashes Cricket 2009, a title the publisher hopes will reinvigorate the cricket genre. With the public’s interest …
Read More »APB hits retail in March
The hotly-tipped APB by Scottish developer Realtime Worlds will arrive at retail in March, MCV can reveal. MCV understands that EA Partners is distributing and marketing the PC and Xbox 360 game, which has been branded by some commentators as the natural successor to GTA. However, insiders have scotched industry …
Read More »NPD: Has digital stolen retails missing sales?
The notion that games are recession proof is now well and truly forgotten – but perhaps the rise of both digital downloads and free-to-play online gaming is as big a culprit as global banking greed. NPD figures show that the North American video game market declined by 31 per cent …
Read More »First Tomy titles arrive at retail
Tomy has published its first video game in the UK – the initial step in its quest to steal significant sales share in the DS and Wii market. Lovely Lisa, a DS mini-game collection based on the popular Japanese doll Licca-Chan, has been released through Mastertronic, with a price point …
Read More »Antigrav aims for new retailers
Specialist distributor Antigrav is targeting new and non-traditional retailers in order to drive the company’s growth. The firm’s managing director Robert Orchard told MCV that the recession has prompted it to look beyond the usual games outlets. We have all experienced some very difficult trading conditions recently, and we have …
Read More »UK games retail joins Twitter revolution
Top UK retailers have taken to social networking service Twitter to promote their latest games offers and communicate with customers. High Street and online giants including GAME, Gamestation, HMV, Amazon and Play are already using the service, with many working the social networking website to gather feedback from its customer …
Read More »US: Digital casual games come to retail
Online monetization firm PlaySpan has announced that a new code card range in conjunction with PBS Kids Play called Ultimate Game Card that will be stocked in over 800 of the toy firm’s stores across North America. The cards can be used to pay for online subscriptions to PBSkids.org, a …
Read More »UK retail suffering shoplifting surge
Aside from the headlines troubles caused by the wallet-tightening credit crunch, a darker side of the economic crisis is currently blighting UK retail with news that both theft and fraud are significantly on the up. A new report commissioned by Simplybusiness.co.uk claims that 47 per cent of the UK’s independent …
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