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The special SKU for Tecmo Koei’s Ninja Gaiden 3 has been confirmed for the UK, although pricing is still to be announced. In the US it will be priced at $99.99 and sold exclusively through GameStop and EB Games, reports CVG. The Collector’s Edition will include a Ninja Gaiden 3 …

PR manager Neil Ashurst has departed GAME Group this week after three and a half years at the firm. He will be joining PR agency Romley Davies, where he will head up the company’s newly-signed Blockbuster account. He will support the rental chain’s growing games offering, as well as its …

Sony’s new handheld has maintained a steady level of sales in its fourth week on the market, but Nintendo has widened the gap. Vita sold 42,915 units in the week ending January 8th, a slight improvements on the 42,468 units from the previous week. Sony claims 500,000 units have been …

Singing sensation Adele sold over 1m more copies of her latest album than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. The FPS loses its crown as the UK’s biggest entertainment property in terms of units sold, although it remains No.1 in value. Call of Duty topped the same list in both …

The UK’s largest retailer, Tesco, has reported a 2.3 per cent like-for-like drop in sales in the UK for the seven weeks ending January 7th. It’s the chain’s worst UK performance in two decades. The numbers are in contrast to Tesco’s best ever international performance, with total group sales climbing …

Microsoft has announced that more than 66 million Xbox 360 consoles have been sold worldwide to date. The format holder revealed the console’s latest sales milestone during this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It also announced that there are now more than 40 million Xbox Live members around …

Publishers can get a bigger slice of pre-owned game sales at retail – if they’re willing to reach a compromise with stores. Several games retailers have told MCV they’d be happy to share revenues from used game sales if publishers scrapped Online Pass codes or gave them a better deal …

I wrote this story this morning. And I took no pleasure in writing it. Let’s be clear about something though – the likelihood is that GAME and Gamestation will be fine. It needs to change, lean down a bit. But I’m sure it will survive. The scare this morning is …

It might not feel like it on the High Street right now, but the British Retail Consortium has said UK retail enjoyed a dazzling” December. It reports that like-for-like sales for the month were up 2.1 per cent year-on-year, with total sales climbing 4.1 per cent. Of course, the snow …

In excess of 6.5m PlayStation consoles were sold worldwide in the period between November 18th to December 31st, Sony has estimated. Of those sales the new PlayStation Vita contributed half a million units following its Japanese launch on December 17th. Sony added that over 70 Vita games are currently in …