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Trading in the shares of the Woolworths Group has been suspended on the London Stock Exchange. The company said trading would resume once it had announced whether it would be selling its BBC show distribution service and its chain of retail stores. In a statement, the firm’s Board also confirmed …
Read More »Woolworths denies plan to shut down site
Woolworths has rubbished reports that it is planning to shut down its retail website. Retail Week reported earlier today that the chain was to stop selling toys online – and that it was eventually planning to take down the site altogether. However, a spokesperson told MCV: Reports that we are …
Read More »Atari releases TV ad campaign for Whats Cooking?
Atari is backing DS release What’s Cooking? with Jamie Oliver with a TV ad campaign, set to hit TV screens in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Creative agency Rushmore put the 20” ad together, which will go on air to promote the title and hammer home the message that …
Read More »Gran Turismo 5 is still on track
Kazunori Yamauchi, head of Polyphony Digital, has confirmed that Gran Turismo 5 and Gran Turismo PSP are both being developed, despite little being heard of the titles since they were first revealed. Speaking to IGN, Yamauchi said: There’s no real plans that we can discuss just now, but production is …
Read More »Stocks and scares
This time last year we began to understand that US sub-prime mortgages had infected the entire financial system, bringing on an acute case of credit crunch. Markets have fallen ever since, as relief at the unprecedented global government assistance that’s been doled out at what’s left of the banking industry …
Read More »PS3 takes 51% of all Tomb Raider: Underworld sales
Fifty-one per cent of all sales of Eidos’ Tomb Raider: Anniversary were on PlayStation 3, GFK-ChartTrack has confirmed. The title entered this week’s GFK-ChartTrack/ELSPA All Formats Top 40 at No.9, outselling the launch of last year’s original Tomb Raider remake (Tomb Raider: Anniversary) by 6,700 units. The new Tomb Raider …
Read More »PES 2009 half-price at GameStation
Gamestation has announced that for one week only Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 will be added to their ‘Half Price Hero’ campaign. The 360 and PS3 versions are on sale for 19.99, whilst the PS2 version is cut to just 12.49. The PC version drops to 14.99. To read the full …
Read More »New rescue deal could save Woolies from administration
The company looking to snap up Woolworths for 1 seems to have revised its deal following emergency talks over the weekend. According to The Daily Mail, Hilco still wishes to buy Woolies’ 840 High Street stores for a nominal 1. However, the company is thought to have tabled a last-ditch …
Read More »360 global sales surpass original Xbox
Microsoft has told MCV that the Xbox 360 has now topped its predecessor’s installed base around the globe. The company previously noted that it expected to achieve the feat at the end of this month – but it has now confirmed to MCV that 360 has already overtaken the original …
Read More »Is the Government on PEGI’s side?
Is the industry’s hunch that Government is on its side jumping the gun? We’ll have to wait and see (and according to the DCMS we won’t have to wait long). But it’s not like ELSPA’s positive attitude is without merit. Unless it was just a spectacular coincidence that, when speaking …
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