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UK-based online and digital retailer Green Man Gaming is sponsoring the MCV Awards 2013. The firm sells a range of downloadable PC games that can be traded in against future purposes, as well as a selection of boxed Xbox 360 and PS3 games. Green Man has signed up as Event …

Hang on – this isn’t how it’s supposed to work, is it? In an age where many are happy to predict the death of the High Street, digital games retailer Green Man Gaming is going the other direction, having announced its expansion into the boxed games market. The strategy is …

Green Man Gaming has merged with global gaming community Playfire. Playfire was founded in 2007 and has more than 1m gamers on its service. The network lets members track their gaming habits and compare with their friends. The total number of games registered on Playfire is 80.9m, with the Playfire …

Digital retailers will be forced to provide the facility for customers to re-sell their digital purchases, the boss of digital trade-in specialist Green Man Gaming believes. A ruling from the European Court of Justice yesterday said that consumers should be free to resell licensed software, whether it was purchased physically …

The man in charge of online marketing at PlayStation Europe has been named Green Man Gaming’s new marketing director. Darren Cairns worked at SCEE for six years, leading the publisher’s digital strategy for PlayStation and played a ‘instrumental’ role in the launch of PlayStation Network. He has over 15 years …

Renowned pre-owned games guru Martin Baxter has joined Green Man Gaming as head of trading. Baxter joins following four years at HMV, most recently as category manager for games. He introduced its RePlay pre-owned range. Previously he has held senior roles at Choices and Gamestation. At GMG he will work …

It costs less to buy games from Tesco than it does via Steam. Retail price wars and general cost depreciation means that, on average, games lose 25 per cent of their value in just one month on the UK High Street. And that just doesn’t happen in the same way …

Green Man Gaming has appointed respected industry figures to its senior management team. The new recruits comeas the UK-based digital retailer begins to expand across Europe. The firm has signed former Metaboli and GAME exec Paul Howes as commercial director. Howes has held senior roles at Mindscape and Infogrames before …

Green Man Gaming has teamed up with OnLive rival Gaikai to let its users try before they buy. Customers can now stream and play Gaikai game demos through any of the retailer’s sites, including its flagship UK store and recently launched portals in the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. …

Digital distributor Green Man Gaming has hired Tim Sawyer as operations director. Sawyer most recently worked as group head of ecommerce for Middle East electronics retailer, MeMega. Before this, he was head of ecommerce for ShopDirect Group. As Europe’s fastest growing digital distributor, we needed an experienced person to take …