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Read More »Online retail calls time on Christmas
As predicted by MCV, UK online retailers are telling customers to buy their games today or they won’t get them in time for Christmas. GAME has pushed forward its last order date to today (Friday, December 17th). Consumers must order before 8pm tonight to guarantee delivery before Christmas. This affects …
Read More »Amazon outage ‘not a result of hack’
Amazon has stated that the outage that it suffered on Satudrady was a result of hardware failure and not online ‘hacktivism’ as has been claimed. An spokesman for the online retailer told Reuters that: The brief interruption to our European retail sites earlier today was due to hardware failure in …
Read More »Games dominate Kindle listings
Amazon’s own-branded monochrome e-reader Kindle is proving a surprisingly popular games machine. Kotaku spotted that according to the retailers Kindle charts, which show the best selling titles of the last 90 days, eight of the top 12 best sellers for the device were games. Games also managed to oust books …
Read More »Amazon UK enters pre-owned market
Amazon.co.uk has rolled out a trade-in service that allows users to mail in games in exchange for credit. The move comes following a similar pre-owned offering on the US Amazon website. Consumers can currently trade-in Fallout: New Vegas on PS3 for 16.50, Medal of Honor on Xbox 360 for 21, …
Read More »Wii Speak discontinued?
UPDATE: Nintendo has issued the following statement to MCV: "We’re still supplying Wii Speak and it’s still very much available should retail want to order it." The product is still listed as ‘discontinued’ on both the US and UK Amazon websites. ORIGINAL STORY: Wii Speak – which allows gamers to …
Read More »Amazon brings Black Friday to UK
The UK arm of retailer Amazon has announced that it will be bringing one of America’s biggest shopping holidays to Amazon.co.uk. Black Friday is the name given to the day after Thanksgiving, as is traditionally seen as the beginning of the Christmas spending period in the US. This year it …
Read More »Kindle gets first indie game
Kindle, the famous ‘digital ink’ e-reader, is now hosting its first indie-developed game, in what owner Amazon is hoping will ignite interest in device as a games platform. Weighing at 343.4kB, the black-and-white strategy title Triple Town has been built by indie outfit Spry Fox – a studio co-founded by …
Read More »In Pictures: The first indie game on Kindle
Triple Town, developed by startup Spry Fox, launches on Amazonâ??s e-reader
Read More »Kinect sells out at Amazon, Play
Following news yesterday that GAME has already sold out of its initial Kinect stock allocation and cannot guarantee day one delivery for new pre-orders, two other major UK retailers have stopped taking pre-orders for the device. Amazon.co.uk is asking interested customers to sign up for email notifications regarding availability. An …
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