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Forget the High Street price war, the biggest battle this Q4 will take place online. Asda has relaunched its entertainment site in a bid to win over consumers this Christmas, and says it will compete better on price with market leader Amazon. It follows a string of etailer shake-ups in …

Best Buy’s James Cooke is the latest entertainment expert to join ERA’s Board. The Entertainment Retailers Association named its six Board members at its AGM last week. GAME’s Alex Vines, Play.com’s David Rimmer, Tesco’s Rob Salter and Asda’s Andrew Powell are re-elected, while Cooke and E-Music’s Madeleine Milne are new …

Sonic the Hedgehog has been tearing up gamers screens for 20 years, and MCV has put together a supplement celebrating that very fact. We look back at the key moments in Sonic’s history from 1991 to 2007, and reveal the plans for the upcoming adventure – Sonic Generations. On top …

Virgin Gaming has teamed up with EA for the most lucrative tournament so far. The firms are offering $1.6m to the winner of the Battlefield 3 Worldwide Conquest Tournament, which kicks off from next year. It will culminate in a live grand finale. You can read more about it at …

Asda’s online customers can pre-order the FIFA 12 special edition for 35 later today, MCV can reveal. That’s 25 off the EA game’s RRP. This offer will not be repeated in stores and marks the arrival of the grocer’s in-house entertainment site. The Hut Group has previously handled the retailer’s …

It has been a bleak year for music and films so far, but it’s video games that have suffered the most. Gfk and Official Chart Company data, compiled by the Entertainment Retailers Association, show the value of the UK games software market is down 12.2 per cent year-to-date over the …

Retail giant GAME defied its critics and put on its first, and successful, consumer event last week. GAMEfest attracted some 30,000 visitors to Birmingham NEC, with huge stands and long queues for titles such as F1 2011, Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3.It comes following criticism from major publishers over …

The fact that Deus Ex is No.2 after just two days on sale says as much about the state of UK games retail as it does about the performance of the Square Enix RPG. A lack of new games saw retail sales plunge last month, down 19.5 per cent over …

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, Saints Row 3 and The Darkness 2 will be amongst the blockbuster games on show at this October’s London MCM Expo. It follows news that Warner Bros’ Batman: Arkham City will be the headline sponsor for the anime, movies, comic, sci-fi and video game consumer show. The …

Access – a new on-console PS3 show from Future Publishing – goes live this afternoon. Free to all UK PSN account holders, Access will be available every Wednesday and is hosted by comedian Lucy Porter. The show lets consumers check out the latest titles, industry events and SCE UK’s growing …