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Amazon has revealed that it’s opening a processing plant in Staffordshire, creating up to 900 new jobs. The new centre will start operating from September and will deal with customers from the UK and across the world. The latest move is just one of several which seem to show the …

MCV’s annual High Street directory provides an overview of every buying team for each key UK video games retailer, as well as up-to-date store counts, company profiles and contact details. Game and Gamestation The UK’s leading specialist games retailer has had a tough year, with sales falling by 9.8 per …

Bitdrop warns indies away from Amazon's Android platform

Retailer Amazon has gone live with its pre-order pricing for Sony’s PlayStation Vita. It concurs with the prices put out by GAME earlier in the week – that being a 279.99 RRP for the premium 3G model and 229.99 for the wi-fi only device. To put that into some sort …

Amazon UK and Argos have stayed at last year’s number one and two spots respectively, while Tesco has knocked Play.com off the number three spot, moving it down one place to number four. Experian said that one of the fast moving sectors were department stores and John Lewis was one …

Consumers have reacted positively to Amazon UK’s trade-in offer, the company has told MCV. In January this year, retail experts criticised Amazon’s game trade-in plans. ShopTo’s former marketing manager Phil Driver told MCV the long process of trading in online would be ‘intolerable’ for consumers compared to store trade-ins. However, …

PopCap will host its first two Android games exclusively on the Amazon App Store for 14 days, the company has said. The deal will see the release of PopCap title Chuzzle on Amazon’s mobile store until May 30th. Later in the month, the Android edition of Plants vs Zombies will …

Retailer bags two Android games for 14 days; Begins controversial 'first-day-free' offer

Game body asks developers to read the small print carefully

IGDA says the retailer has too much control over app prices