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Talk in the industry is all about the fallout, and some in the games market believe that there’s still a lot of bad news to come from the demise of Woolworths. But with the retailer still in the throws of what may well be its demise, the thoughts of the …
Read More »Nintendo clarifies EUK debt
As Woolworths’ closing down sale gets underway today, leading platform holder Nintendo has spoken exclusively to MCV regarding claims in UK newspaper The Sun about the amount of debt owed to platform holders by the Woolworths-owned EUK. The tabloid yesterday claimed that EUK is expected to go into liquidation within …
Read More »Xbox 360 tops teens Xmas most wanted
A poll conducted amongst residents of teenage virtual world favourite Habbo has shown that games consoles are the most sought after present for teens this Christmas – and the Xbox 360 leads the crowd. Of the 4,540 UK teens polled, 39 per cent wanted Santa to bring a PC or …
Read More »Law firm surprised by Which? bullying accusations
UK consumer rights magazine Which? has complained to the solicitor’s watchdog about London law firm Davenport Lyons following what it calls the mailing of ‘bullying’ letters to ‘hundreds of innocent consumers’. Davenport Lyons is one of the chief players in recent moves to crack down on illegal internet filesharing. Along …
Read More »Daily Mail’s Scrabble DS ‘outrage’
Another gaming outrage is on the cards from the UK press, and this time it’s The Daily Mail which has reacted badly to the presence of a range of offensive words and slang in Nintendo DS title Scrabble Interactive 2007 Edition. 36 year old Tonya Carrington contacted the paper after …
Read More »WOOLIES UPDATE: Closing down sale begins tomorrow
The Joint Administrators to Woolworths have today announced that a store closing sale will begin in stores on Thursday December 11th. The Administrators continue to actively seek buyers for the Woolworths assets and negotiations with a number of interested parties are ongoing. Neville Kahn, reorganisation services partner at Deloitte, commented: …
Read More »Early December High Street stats positive
The latest UK High Street statistics from Synovate Retail Performance show that the number of non-food shopping trips made between November 30th and December 6th climbed by 10.1 per cent compared to the week before – though the number is still 4.1 per cent down on the same week in …
Read More »Woolworths to close down within days?
Woolworths could be facing its last few days on UK High Street with reports that administrator Deloitte has failed to find a buyer for the struggling retailer. RetailWeek speculates that the chain’s entire workforce, which totals around 30,000, are facing redundancy. Details of the national closing down sale are expected …
Read More »JAPAN: Blu-ray hardware outsells DVD for the first time
Stats from Gfk Retail and Technology Japan have revealed that in the first week of November Blu-ray disc recording hardware outsold DVD recorders for the first time. In the same period last year Blu-ray disc recorders accounted for just ten per cent of the market, but falling prices in recent …
Read More »Spielberg: No synergy between storytelling and gaming
Acclaimed American film director Steven Spielberg has spoken at length about his seemingly deep interest in video games, but also criticised the way in which gaming still draws a huge dividing line between narrative and gameplay. I play a lot of action games,” Spielberg told Yahoo!. There have been a …
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