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As was exclusively revealed by MCV yesterday, all remaining Blockbuster stores will close next week. That means the closure of 91 stores and the loss of 808 jobs, with the last doors to be shut on Monday December 16th. All remaining stock will be sold off at a significant discount …
Read More »All remaining Blockbuster stores to close next week
The last of Blockbuster’s UK stores will close next week, MCV can reveal. MCV reported last month that Blockbuster was due for total closure by December 20th and last week administrator Moorfields Corporate Recovery admitted that it had still not received any acceptable offers” and as a result we may …
Read More »Jagex: Retail can sell free games
Shops can help sell free games, says free-to-play specialist Jagex. The firm predicts stores will experiment with selling add-ons for games such as Killer Instinct, a free-to-play launch title on Xbox One. I think there are plenty of opportunities for retail to be involved in F2P,” said Jagex marketing director …
Read More »Zavvi threatens customers with legal action after accidentally sending them PlayStation Vitas
Coordinates set for consumer backlash disaster! Last month Zavvi accidentally supplied some customers who had pre-ordered Vita title Tearaway with the Tearaway hardware bundle that includes a Vita console. At the time it asked customers if they’d be kind enough to return them – a request that the vast majority …
Read More »Man who paid £450 for a photo of an Xbox One is given a real one
Did you read about that lad who paid 450 for a photo of an Xbox One? The story was big news last week after Nottingham Post reported that 19 year-old Peter Clatworthy had paid 450 for a picture of an Xbox One on eBay. He thought he’d paid for an …
Read More »GAME introduces… a tinned Christmas dinner for gamers
Christmas dinner in a tin. That’s apparently what GAME could shortly be selling in its stores. It’s called the Christmas Tinner and consists of nine layers of processed festive food, as demonstrated in the picture below. Apparently the chain has actually trialled this product in its Basingstoke store and is …
Read More »62 more Blockbuster stores to close and rentals suspended as end nears
Administrators Moorfields Corporate Recovery has confirmed that another 62 Blockbuster stores are to close. This means another 427 workers will lose their jobs, although Moorfields has finally admitted – as revealed by MCV last month – that it expects the company to close in the near future. Add this to …
Read More »O2 is now offering Xbox One on contract
Mobile phone network O2 has added the Xbox One to its in-store console line-up. As detailed on the O2 site, Consumers can now pay 99.99 upfront for the machine as long as they sign up to a two-year 52 month contract. For the money they get an Xbox One console, …
Read More »Xbox One and PS4 fetching sky-high prices on eBay
Shoppers are currently paying through the nose to secure Xbox One and PS4 consoles on eBay. PS4 consoles are typically attracting closing bids of 500 and above, while Xbox One is finishing a little higher at around the 530 mark. So Xbox One is generally selling for more than PS4, …
Read More »What caused the publisher pre-owned U-turn?
Publishers do not like second hand game sales. They believe that pre-owned is killing their businesses. It is discouraging gamers from buying new games after a certain period and is money made by retailers that is not being passed to the creators. Yet in recent months the rhetoric has changed. …
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