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Online retailer Amazon is hatching a plan to deliver orders to your home using automated flying drones. No, really! As detailed in the video below, the idea is that orders can be with buyers in around 30 minutes. In fact, the only thing holding the Prime Air initiative back is …
Read More »Read our exclusive Phil Harrison interview on the future of Xbox inside the latest MCV
In this week’s issue of MCV, we talk to Microsoft’s corporate VP Phil Harrison about the launch of the Xbox One and what lies ahead in the next-gen. We also bid farewell to the now previous generation of consoles and take a look at some of the biggest event, scandals …
Read More »HMV ramping down tech, stepping up games, music and film
HMV is reducing the amount of high-end technology it sells, the retailer has told MCV’s sister site PCR. HMV director Steve West revealed that the firm has cut back on selling items such as tablets to make way for products which our customers more readily associate with the HMV brand” …
Read More »PICTURES: PS4 arrives at PlayStation’s pop-up lounge
PS4 has arrived in the UK. Following Xbox One’s arrival last Friday, that means that the next-gen is now officially the current-gen. PS3 and Xbox 360 are SO last-gen. Blaine Smith from Bedford was the first person to pre-order the PS4 from GAME and was the first in line to …
Read More »Game4u’s Black Friday weekend sale is upon us
Game4u has kicked off its Black Friday sale on digital PC games, which will run from today (29th November) to 2nd December. On sale on the first day are nine digital download games from PC and Mac, including Dishonored, Company of Heroes 2, and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary …
Read More »Amazon bringing Sunday deliveries to London this Christmas
Online retailer Amazon is to start offering Sunday deliveries in the UK for the first time this Christmas. The website is teaming up with a number of local courier and delivery firms in a move that further reduces the immediacy advantage currently enjoyed by the High Street. Throughout the Christmas …
Read More »GAME adds 12 new shops for Christmas
UK retailer GAME has opened 12 new stores in the run-up to the Christmas trading period. Game Retail’s stores director Dave Howard confirmed to MCV that the chain has opened four new permanent stores and eight temporary stores, while four stores have been relocated. The firm hopes the new outlets …
Read More »O2 to sell PS4s on contract; 65 stores have launch day stock
Still hunting for a launch day PS4? Then O2 may be your surprising saviour. The mobile network is offering launch day stock of the console at 65 of its UK stores. The cmachine is available as part of a bundle including a Sony Xperia Z1 handset. Also included is a …
Read More »Microsoft strikes Xbox One agreements with Japanese developers
Xbox One has signed on multiple Japanese development studios to make full retail releases for Xbox One. The firm’s corporate vice president Phil Spencer confirmed the new deals to Kotaku, stating that the unannounced titles will be revealed at some point in 2014. Spencer added that they will be full …
Read More »BBC’s Panorama accuses Amazon of poor work conditions
Conditions for workers at Amazon warehouses could cause mental and physical illness" according to an investigation by BBC Panorama. The show secretly filmed the working conditions endured by undercover reporter Adam Littler at the retailer’s Swansea depot. Each shift can involve up to 11 miles of walking with orders expected …
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