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It’s not out until May 10th, but some people have already got their hands on upcoming PS4 shooter Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. Videogamer reports that at least one individual obtained a copy of the game from CEX in the UK yesterday. "I went in to CEX… to actually buy …
Read More »Steam to start accepting Bitcoin payments
Support for virtual currency coming soon, with Valve promising it has ‘a system that insulates partners from risk and volatility ‘ in place
Read More »Amazon locks video game purchases behind Prime paywall
Retailer Amazon has decided that it will only sell certain games to members of Amazon Prime. As reported by Videogamer, a handful of titles have been spotted so far that carry the banner ‘exclusively for Prime members’. The info pop-up confirms that: This item, sold by Amazon, is currently reserved …
Read More »‘No Sale Promise’ campaign wants players to stop waiting for price cuts
‘By deliberately not participating in the ‘culture of sales’, at least for a while, you risk losing out on revenue and visibility that those sales could have generated’
Read More »Ready At Dawn and Frozenbyte among first studios signed to new GameStop label
US retailer previously announced it would publish Insomniac’s Song of the Deep
Read More »GameStop talks digital pre-owned ‘barriers’, says new consoles ‘imminent’
Retail’s hope of integrating the digital games market into its pre-owned model looks less likely than ever. There have been various effort and legal attempts to enforce the allowed trade-in and resale of digital games over the years, but GameSpot reports that GameStop COO Tony Bartel has said at the …
Read More »The Division and Far Cry Primal rescue March for retail
Ubisoft was the hero on the High Street last month, with The Division and Far Cry Primal topping the UK charts. The Division was by far and away the biggest seller of the month, shifting almost half a million physical copies during the period. 1.72m boxed games were sold during …
Read More »Roll7: ‘A boxed release is a no-brainer’
Director Simon Bennett explains why devs should consider bringing their games to retail
Read More »HTC acknowledges ‘multiple issues’ with Vive deliveries
Tech company HTC has for the first acknowledged the issues that have been plaguing HTC Vive customers. Complaints about the ordering process and delayed deliveries have been doing the rounds for days, with reports that all non-Paypal orders were facing problems. HTC has denied credit card issues, however, and insisted …
Read More »Oculus Rift and HTC Vive struggle with order problems
Both players in the upcoming clash of the VR titans have been plagued by pre-release supply problems. Oculus has told some customers that there will be a delay in the shipment of their device due to an "unexpected component shortage”. It’s offering free orders to those affected as an apology. …
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