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Star Wars VII: The Game looks unlikely to be gracing release schedules in late 2015. EA has said that a condition of its Star Wars licensing agreement with Disney was that it was not required to make what it describes as movie games”. We’ve done movie games over the years …
Read More »GAME has more Xbox One stock available tomorrow
200 launch day Xbox One units will be made available to GAME customers tomorrow. The consoles will be made available from midday tomorrow (Thursday November 21st) at GAME’s Xbox-themed Boxpark store in Shoreditch. All stock will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Those who get their hands on an …
Read More »EA lays claim to 33% of PS4’s game sales
One in three PS4 games sold so far in the US has been made by EA. That’s the claim of COO Peter Moore whose company had four boxed titles ready for PS4’s day one – FIFA 14, Need for Speed Rivals, Battlefield 4 and Madden 25. There were a total …
Read More »What did you miss from the London Games Conference?
Last night’s London Games Conference was another jam-packed event filled with incredible insight on how to discover, sell and even make games. We had the social giants Twitter, Twitch, Facebook and Google on stage, plus some incredible insight and lessons from the likes of Michael Pachter, CCP’s David Reid and …
Read More »LGC: GAME recruits 4,500 people for Christmas
GAME boss Martyn Gibbs said the firm has hired 4,500 temporary staff for the peak Christmas period. He revealed the number live on stage at London Games Conference 2013. He said that customer support is one of the most important roles retailers can play in today’s games industry, and it …
Read More »LGC: 2m people buy digital content from GAME
GAME CEO Martyn Gibbs has revealed the role he believes the specialist retailer can have in a digital world. On stage at London Games Conference 2014, the retail veteran said that 2m individual people have bought digital content from the High Street chain. He told attendees that video games is …
Read More »Xbox One game downloads will fill up the hard drive pretty quick
The additional graphical flourish that will accompany next-gen games will result in another fundamental change – filesizes are set to explode. That doesn’t really matter when you’re talking about games on a Blu-ray. After all, it matters not whether your disc is carrying 5MB or 50GB of data. But if …
Read More »GAME selling ‘Epic Adventure’ gaming holiday
For 5,500 consumers can now buy an altogether different video gaming collectible from UK retail GAME. The chain has teamed up with STA Travel to offer ‘The Epic Gaming Adventure’, a four-week holiday visiting 13 different cities all of which are historically significant to the history of video games. Described …
Read More »Doctor Who 50th Anniversary title materialises
November is a busy month for the Doctor, but the Time Lord will still be putting in an appearance in the video games market. The BBC has announcedvia Twitterthat a new Doctor Who title will be released for iOS and Android "soon" – no doubt in time for the series’ …
Read More »VIDEO: Here’s GAME’s 2013 UK Christmas TV ad
This is the GAME Christmas TV ad that UK folk are going to be seeing on their sets this year. It revolves around the idea of a mum being asked for a Christmas present from her son. However, everything he says is completely indecipherable to her. She then wonders into …
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