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Amazon.com has made a 200 million bid to acquire movie rental company LoveFilm. According to Retail Week, this is not the first time Amazon has expressed interest in the rental service, having taken a 42 per cent stake in the business in 2008. The privately owned LoveFilm currently has around …

As anyone who uses games forums will tell you, getting a game on day one still remains hugely important to a large part of the core games userbase – something that clearly hasn’t escaped the attentions of online retailer Amazon. Gamasutra reports that the US arm of Amazon is now …

One of the key personnel behind the creation of Xbox Live has left his position at Microsoft for a new role in retail. According to his blog, Andre Vrignaud has joined the team at Amazon. While he hasn’t revealed his new position, it is hinted that it will be heavily …

Last year Amazon begun selling codes to download titles from Xbox Live via its website. Less than 18 months later, however, the retailer has pulled out of the service. We are no longer selling Xbox Live arcade game codes on Amazon.com,” a statement on the Amazon site reads. You can …

Bethesda has announced the Fallout: New Vegas Collector’s Edition will be available exclusively to GAME and Gamestation when it hit stores this October. Buyers will receive Lucky 7 poker chips, a recreation of the game’s Lucky 38 platinum chip and New Vegas-branded playing cards. A hardcover graphic novel and a …

Though it’s never likely to emerge as a games platform to rival the likes of iPad or the DS, Amazon has released two games that are compatible with its Kindle ereader device. Shuffled Row and Every Word are both available to download for free right now. Both, unsurprisingly, are word …

Leading online book retailer Amazon has said that digital books have been consistently outselling” hardback books throughout the last three months in the US. It says that throughout the period it has been selling 143 e-books for every 100 hardback novels sold in Q2 2010. In the last month alone …

In a surprise move, online retail giant Amazon has begun offering groceries on its website. The move is bizarrely reminiscent of an April Fools’ story posted by MCV earlier in the year where we joked that GAME was breaking into the fruit and veg market in an effort to fight …

Online leader Amazon has once again been named as the biggest etailer in the UK by analyst Experian HitWise. TechRadar reports that Amazon has claimed the top spot every year since the firm started producing the league table. Catalogue specialist Argos claimed second place just ahead of entertainment giant Play.com …

Online retailers with distribution facilities off the UK mainland are safe from the VAT hike. The likes of HMV, Amazon, Play and The Hut run operations from Jersey or Guernsey, which means they’ll remain unaffected by the increase. Digital distributors not based in the UK will also be able to …