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Virgin has put paid to any suggestion it will return to High Street retail, after Sir Richard Branson ‘inherited’ seven Zavvi stores this week. MCV can reveal that Branson still holds the leases on Zavvi’s flagship Tottenham Court Road store, the chain’s biggest store in Birmingham and five other retail …
Read More »FIFA 09 surges past 2m UK sales
EA is celebrating a dual Christmas triumph – after FIFA 09 took the official Christmas No.1 spot in the All Formats chart and sailed past two million UK sales. The title returned to the top of the GFK-ChartTrack/ELSPA All Formats Top 40 this week, following a post-Christmas sales jump – …
Read More »Woolworths closure was unnecessary
Woolworths’ largest shareholder Ardeshir Naghshineh has called the demise of the retailer unnecessary”, and talked of his frustration over the collapse. Naghshineh has also talked of the terrible shame” of 30,000 people losing their jobs – as administrator Deloitte profits from the retailer’s downfall. He told Sky: "It seems a …
Read More »Budget’s PC boost
We ask: * Garry Williams, Business Development Director, Mastertronic; * Simon Reynolds, European Games Director, Avanquest Software; * Craig Johnson, Managing Director, Focus Multimedia;* Paul Andrews, Chief Executive, Entain8.Industry pundits have been predicting the death of the PC market for years, but it seems that budget is playing a key …
Read More »Asda Direct reassures customers as supplier collapses
Asda has stressed to MCV sister site PC Retail that it is ‘confident’ that customers of its Asda Direct operation will not be affected by the collapse of one of its key electricals suppliers, Miller Brothers. "We are confident our customers will not lose out," a spokesman for the supermarket …
Read More »‘50% off’ sale begins at Zavvi this Friday
Zavvi will cut prices of all items in store by up to 50 per cent from Friday, January 9th. According to the firm’s administrator Ernst & young, the further reductions will come off prices that have already been discounted. Unlike Woolworths’ end-of-life sale, which left many shoppers annoyed at the …
Read More »22 Zavvi stores shut down
Zavvi administrator Ernst & Young has closed 22 of the retailer’s UK stores – leading to the redundancy of 178 employees. That brings the total of Zavvi employees now without a job to 241, after 69 staff lost their jobs at the retailer’s London HQ last week. The Joint Administrators …
Read More »Bioshock can do a Star Wars, says 2K boss
Global President of 2K Christoph Hartmann has told MCV that Bioshock has the potential to emulate the Star Wars series – and that the publisher might even create five sequels to the 2007 smash hit. However, Hartman was careful to promise fans that 2K won’t cash in” on the title. …
Read More »EA announces new football game
EA Sports has announced a new football title for DS, due for release in March. Football Academy is a collection of mini-games and challenges that improves football knowledge. The game offers a way to learn football strategy, positioning and technique. Players build their knowledge by completing tasks and take their …
Read More »1UP snapped up by new owner
Video games website 1UP has been acquired by UGO Entertainment – a unit of the giant Hearst Corporation. UGO also picked up associated properties including GameVideos.com, MyCheats.com and GameTab.com. The deal is structured as an asset purchase between UGO Entertainment and the Ziff Davis Games Group. Since we started UGO …
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