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Games industry trade body UKIE has unsurprisingly welcomed the news that GAME has been saved from administration by retail turnaround specialist OpCapita. Baker Acquisitions’ purchase of UKIE member, Game’s UK assets is a very positive move for the UK games industry,” UKIE CEO Dr Jo Twist stated. Not having a …
Read More »Three Nippon Ichi PS3 RPGs headed West
Cult RPG developer Nippon Ichi has announced plans to bring three Japanese RPGs to the Western PS3 market. The first, called The Witch and the Hundred Kings, is internally developed and will receive a full-blooded retail release. This will be joined by the Compile Heart developed MugenSouls. Also on the …
Read More »Vegas shooting range invites gamers to try real Call of Duty weapons
You buy all the games, you subscribe to Elite, you have a COD branded baseball cap and you question the sexuality of underage boys online. But what next? Surely there’s another way you can prove your devotion to all things Call of Duty? Yes! There is. You can pay Machine …
Read More »And today’s next-gen console rumour is…
Face it – this won’t stop until we finally see the machines at either E3 this June or E3 2013. Today’s report comes from VG247, which claims to have word on the Next Xbox’s specs from an assortment of anonymous sources. Firstly, the site takes great delight in stressing that …
Read More »MS investigating Xbox credit card security risk
A report from Philadelphia’s Drexel University has claimed that users’ credit card details can be obtained from ‘wiped’ Xbox 360 hard drives. This is supposedly achieved with what are described as basic hacking tools”. Researchers were able to access files and folders on a 360 HDD that had been through …
Read More »Zipper Interactive closes doors
Unit 13, MAG and SOCOM dev Zipper Interactive has been closed, Sony has confirmed. The first party studio was acquired by Sony in 2006 and at the time of closing was home to approximately 80 employees. Sony Computer Entertainment can confirm the closure of Zipper Interactive, a Seattle-based internal game …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Three weeks at the top for FIFA Street
EA’s FIFA Street has claimed No.1 in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 for the third week on the trot. It does so despite a week-on-week fall of sales of 44 per cent. As well as climbing No.2 with Mass Effect 3, EA also claims third place in …
Read More »David Hamid becomes new GAME exec chairman
The former joint COO of Dixons, David Hamid, will become GAME’s new executive chairman, MCV understands. Hamid’s former employers include MFI (chairman), Halfords (CEO), Nationwide Auto Centres (chairman) and Russian retailer Mvideo (deputy chairman). He is also an operating partner of OpCapita’s. OpCapita’s Henry Jackson will also be involved in …
Read More »OFFICIAL: GAME UK exits administration
Retailer GAME has announced its exit from administration following a successful bid by Comet owners OpCapita. Private investment firm OpCapita has secured a sale of GAME’s UK assets to Baker Acquisitions Limited. Under the terms of the deal Baker has bought the UK arm of GAME Group out of administration …
Read More »GAME is saved as deal is agreed
A deal has been agreed that has tonight seen GAME exit administration, MCV believes. Former front-runner turned write-off OpCapita has in a surprise development emerged as the victor, with its re-jigged offer for the trimmed-down GAME offsetting the doubts that saw its original approach shunned by lenders. OpCapita has reportedly …
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