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Best Buy’s flagship UK store opened its doors last Friday, bringing the US retailer its biggest opening day sales ever. Today is on track to be the biggest ever opening day for a Best Buy store anywhere in the world by volume of sales,” said Best Buy’s CEO of branded …

Best Buy arrives in the UK this Friday with the grand opening of its Thurrock store – and it has been confirmed that the retailer will be selling the black version of Nintendo’s Wii for just 99.99. The price will run from April 30th to May 3rd. Other offers include …

Best Buy is the latest UK retailer to enter the used games market. The firm has a range of pre-owned titles in-store already for all formats, and consumers can trade-in their games against anything in-store, such as a Blu-ray disc or a TV, and vice versa. Pre-owned is an important …

Ahead of the opening of its debut UK store in Thurrock this Friday, Best Buy has said that it is targeting between 60-150 outlets in the country. This is a blank sheet of paper,” chief executive Scott Wheway told The Wall Street Journal. It will be different. It will take …

Best Buy has advanced its launch date, and will officially open on April 30th, instead of the planned date in May. It is thought that the dates have been moved to coincide with the bank holiday weekend of May 1st till the 3rd. After months of intensive training at our …

Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has now officially cemented its position as the second best selling game of all time in the US, NPD has confirmed, with only Nintendo’s Wii Play shifting more copies. The game claimed the exact same record in the UK last month. However, just hours …

Best Buy is looking to buy out rival electronics retail group DSGi, reports suggest. Best Buy’s financial advisors have reportedly compiled a list of potential acquisitions in a bid to gain dominance of the UK market, with the PC World owner topping the list. MCV’s sister site PCR has the …

Having shattered most the game industry’s records upon its release last year, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has also emerged as the overall UK entertainment champ of 2009. The ERA estimates that the game sold 2,926,637 units in the few weeks in enjoyed on the market before the close …

Electronic retailer Best Buy has announced a 24.5 per cent increase in gross profit of $12.2bn for its fiscal year ending February 27. The retailer posted gross revenue for the year at $49.7bn – a ten per cent increase on last year’s figure. Online sales were also up 20 per …

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has added another notable notch to its bedpost with news that it is now the second best selling game ever in the UK video games market. In doing so Activision’s title overtakes the total UK lifetime sales of Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, …