Tag Archives: GAME

MCV Jobs Weekly: Warner’s sales vacancy, Aikins joins Sony

In MCV’s latest rundown of the industry’s hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, Warner is looking for a new sales manager, THQ’s John Aikins heads to Sony and GAME hires a Knight. NEW SALES JOB AT WARNERWarner Bros Interactive Entertainment is hiring a new manager of sales analysis for the …

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GAME declassifies exclusive Modern Warfare 3 Intel Pack

Any consumers who pre-order the hotly anticipated Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 from GAME will receive an exclusive Classified Intel Pack. GAME will be handing over these special packs along with 360, PS3 and PC copies of the game when it is released on November 8th. Modern Warfare 3 …

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Brand Map: Gran Turismo

This week we’re going to look at Gran Turismo using the GameVision Brand Map you can buy direct from MCV Reports. We ask European gamers about their time spent with 200 different titles twice a year and compile the data they give us into a report we call a Brand …

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GAME reveals new PS3 pricing

GAMESCOM: Retailer GAME has revealed its new pricing strategy for the PS3 following Sony’s decision to slash the price of the console. The standalone price for the 160GB model will be 199.99. The 320GB machine will retail for 249.99. These prices can be cut to 179.99 and 229.99 respectively when …

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GAME’s Knight takes trading director role

GAME has promoted Charlotte Knight into the role of trading director. She’s worked at GAME for 12 years, most recently as head of category management. She joined in 1999 as buying assistant and worked her way up the ranks of the commercial team. I’m delighted to appoint Charlotte as our …

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Digital deal unites GAME and Sony

GAME will be selling PlayStation Network games in-store across all its 620 UK stores by mid-September. This morning the pair announced a partnership to start selling digital content at bricks and mortar – at first a range of over 50 games will be sold via 42 stores, gradually rolling out …

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Riots cost retail £80m

Mayhem caused by the UK riots has cost the High Street 80m in lost sales alone. The Centre of Retail Research on behalf of Kelkoo estimate the total bill faced by retailers and insurers will come to 141m. It follows rioting and looting in London, Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester. HMV, …

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EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis 2 skips Kinect

Publisher EA has announced that it will be releasing EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis 2 on Xbox 360 and PS3 next year. It’s the only game to feature the licenses of all four tennis Grand Slams – Roland Garros, The US Open, the Australian Open and Wimbledon. It’s also the …

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New PS3 features blocked from non-subscribers

Sony has for the first time blocked non PlayStation Plus users from accessing some features found in the latest PS3 firmware update. The update offers both automated Trophy syncing – currently Trophies have to be synced manually – and the ability to automatically have game saves transferred to the cloud. …

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Skyrim pre-order offers announced

Pre-order incentives for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim have been detailed for Australian and New Zealand stores. EB Games is carrying a Skyrim Steelbook, a 100 page Skyrim debossed notebook, premium physical map and 4 collectible art cards for AUD$108 or NZD$128. JB HiFi has a combo strategy guide and …

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