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Head over to our RETAIL BIZ previews section to read our impressions of the biggest upcoming releases. This week, we take a look at Atari’s The Chronicles Of Riddick: Assault On Dark Athena – as well as all the other major titles hitting retail on Friday. To check them out, …
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DSi Ware is for ‘unique ideas overlooked at retail’
As Develop predicted last week, Nintendo has detailed its strategy for DSi Ware games at its GDC keynote, with Nintendo of America’s Bill Trinen saying "DSi Ware offers digital distribution for unique ideas that would get overlooked on retail stores". He added: "It also offers developers to chance to deliver …
Read More »RETAIL BIZ: News round-up
This week in Retail Biz, Granger Games has opened the first of four new stores as GAME wins best specialist at the Oracle Retail Week Awards.Elsewhere, the DSi has hit two million units sold in Japan, February’s NPD data was released for all to see, and the new Woolworths expects …
Read More »Sony Online boss reaches out to retail
SOE boss John Smedley has outlined his company’s plan to target children and families – and retailers – with its new MMO Free Realms at the GamesBeat conference today. Smedley told attendees at the the event, organised by VentureBeat, that Sony Online Entertainment – which is now a division of …
Read More »RETAIL BIZ: The official UK games charts
The official ELSPA/GfK-ChartTrack charts are in – but it’s not all about the All Formats list. By visiting MCV’s official single format charts each week, you can keep fully up-to-date with what’s going on at UK tills. Resident Evil 5 continues to dominate both PS3 and Xbox 360’s lists this …
Read More »GAME wins Retail Week award
Leading UK High Street games specialist GAME has been crowned The Speciality Retailer of the Year winner at last night’s Oracle Retail Week Awards 2009. It beat off competition in the category from the likes of Pets at Home, Ann Summers, La Senza, HMV and Majestic Wine. The gaming industry …
Read More »Microsoft: PS3 is haemorrhaging at retail
Following another bumper month at North American retail, Xbox 360 product manager Aaron Greenberg has stated that the Xbox 360 continues to exceed the company’s internal expectations – and that PS3 is consistently failing to meets Sony’s. [The 53 per cent year-on-year rise] exceeds even the high end of what …
Read More »Retail reports BAFTA boom
Retail giants Play.com and GAME have benefited from a sales surge following last week’s BAFTA video game awards. Play.com smashed its target for new customers for the week, with a 14 per cent increase in new customers over the firm’s target figures. Meanwhile, GAME Group’s COO Terry Scicluna told MCV …
Read More »UK retail stunned by Wii price hike
UK retailers have told MCV they are ‘surprised’ by news that Nintendo has raised the trade cost of the Wii, and are currently evaluating a new street price. Nintendo Wii’s trade price is set to increase by around 16.50 (approximately 19 including VAT) due to the ‘continuing depreciation of the …
Read More »Retail losing out on Lost and the Damned
Electronic Entertainment Design and Research analyst Jesse Divnich has stated that the firm believes that online sales of GTA IV expansion The Lost and the Damned have bettered retail sales by a ratio of six-to-one. Though Rockstar has not yet released firm sales figures for The Lost and The Damned, …
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