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The rise of digital games sales is destroying High Street and ruining an entire sector. Or not. According to numbers from GAME’s half-year financial report, digital video games revenues accounted for just four per cent of the total market for the first half of the year. The statistic comes from …

GAME Group has stated that it suffered a dip in its pre-owned margins in the 26 weeks ending July 30th. Our pre-owned offer remains the most competitive and widespread on the high street,” chairman Peter Lewis stated. Margins in pre-owned were down by 250 basis points as a result of …

Following dips in both sales and revenue at leading UK games retailer GAME, the chain has pegged Nintendo’s hardware duo of Wii and DS as one of the main drivers of the dip. Specifically, GAME and Gamestation stores have seen a 40 per cent decline in hardware sales of the …

GAME Group today confirmed that it plans to shave down its store count even further over the next three years. Currently, the firm runs 635 stores across its two brands, GAME and Gamestation – after earlier this year closing 15 stores and 27 concessions. But the firm expects to slim …

GAME has reported an expected year-on-year drop in sales and revenue in its half-year financials. For the 26 weeks ending July 31st, revenue was down 9.6 per cent to 624.6m compared to 690.8m the year previously, with like for like sales down 10 per cent. That’s in line with the …

Long-running UK television soap Coronation Street is to become the first such programme to get its own dedicated social network game. Corrie Nation is to initially run on Facebook and ITV.com, and has been created in conjunction with the television show’s production team. After the November 1st launch, other platforms …

GAME at London’s Westfield Shopping Centre will host a special launch event for Halo: Reach. Two ‘real-life’ Spartans (from the game’s ‘Noble Team’) will be at the event while huge Halo: Reach murals are currently being painted along the side of Westfield’s Eat Street. Six lucky people can also win …

As a further foray into the growing digital space, retailer GAME has officially launched its new GAME Downloader PC software. Upon installation, the program scans a user’s PC to identify all the installed games. These are then recorded and every time a patch or expansion becomes available the user is …

Three members of UK retailer GAME’s senior management team have departed the company, MCV can reveal. Group Online and Digital Operations managing director Alex Croft, HR manager Malcolm Knight and Scandinavia, Czech Republic and emerging markets regional MD Adolf Kristjansson have reached agreement with the board that it is the …

UK retailer GAME is offering both the black and white versions of the latest Nintendo Wii bundle for just 129.98 this bank holiday weekend – that’s 50 less than the normal 179.99 retail price. The SKU includes a console, nunchuck controller, Motion Plus add-on and copies of both Wii Sports …