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GAME has announced its marketing campaign for the Christmas period. Dubbed ‘The Epic Season of Gaming’, GAME hopes to target both gamers and gift buyers. The campaign started on November 4th and will run until December 22nd. The retailer will be running 20 and 30 second TV spots throughout this …
Read More »IN PICTURES: GAME’s midnight Call of Duty: Ghosts launch
Call of Duty: Ghosts arrived in the UK last night, and games turned out in force to get their hands on a copy at midnight. Over 300 GAME stores opened their doors for fans – one of which was GAME Stratford where Infinity Ward’s senior community manager Tina Palacios was …
Read More »Head to GAME Stratford for your official Call of Duty: Ghosts launch event
The official UK launch event for Call of Duty: Ghosts will take place at GAME’s Stratford store at Westfield tonight. The event begins at 6:00pm although there will be raffles drawn at 6:30pm, 7:30pm and 8:30pm, the winners of which will get a free ticket and transport to the official …
Read More »GAME offers chance to pay for Xbox One and PS4 early, jump the queue on launch night
Consumers are being offered the chance to jump straight to the front of the queue when buying either Xbox One or PS4. Its new Get Gaming Quicker scheme allows shoppers to head into their local GAME and sort their next-gen order ahead of the official launch date. At that time …
Read More »Who needs sleep? Trio of midnight launches on the way for GAME staff
Spare a thought for the hard-working staff of UK retailer GAME who face a very busy eight days. A huge number of stores will be opening their doors tonight at around 11:45pm to welcome the arrival of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag on current gen machines at midnight. Special event …
Read More »£250 Titanfall Collector’s Edition is GAME exclusive
GAME has been named as the exclusive stockist of the Titanfall Collector’s Edition in the UK. The SKU, which comes in at a not insignificant 249.99, includes an 18-inch ‘hand crafted’ LED-lit Titan figure. Also in the box is a ‘full-size’ hard cover 190-page art book and a schematics poster. …
Read More »Zelda music box isn’t a Link Between Worlds pre-order bonus after all
The collectible Zelda music box revealed by Nintendo earlier this week will not be a pre-order bonus after all. Nintendo had suggested that the trinket would be offered to those who pre-order 3DS title The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. However, it will actually be for those who …
Read More »Turn your iPhone 5C case into a game on Connect 4
Although it’s obviously not Connect 4 because that’s trademarked. Perhaps Apple’s bizarre decision to cut loads of holes into its new range of iPhone 5C cases wasn’t so weird after all? A new app called Flipcase uses Apple’s accessory to turn an iPhone 5C (or indeed any iPhone you can …
Read More »Get hands-on with Xbox One from October 14th in GAME’s lock-ins
Consumers across the country will have the chance to try Xbox One at their local GAME store starting next week. Kicking off with its Dundee event on October 14th, over 60 lock-ins are planned running until November 20th ahead of the Xbox One’s global release on November 22nd. Attendees will …
Read More »Grand Theft Auto V becomes second Western game to grab 40/40 from Famitsu
Esteemed Japanese weekly games magazine Famitsu has awarded Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V an esteemed 40/40 review rating. GTA V becomes the 22nd game to receive top marks from the mag, Polygon reports, and only the second one that was developed outside of Japan – the first being Bethesda’s The …
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