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Online auction giant eBay is to open its first bricks and mortar store in the UK. The one-off five-day experiment will be located just off London’s Oxford Street and will trade between December 1st-5th. Interestingly, the shop itself will have a very limited selection of stock and no tills. Instead, …

Nintendo has opened its own shop at the heart of the UK’s busiest High Street. The Nintendo shop at John Lewis Oxford Street is part of the retailer’s 4m revamp of its Children’s department. It opened this week, stocking games and hardware for DS, Wii and 3DS, with Gem handling …

Warner Bros has teamed up with Harrods to create a special Harry Potter store, coinciding nicely with the launch of LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7. The temporary concession opened earlier this week and will remain until the end of January 2012.It will sell a wide variety of Harry Potter products, …

Where’s the cheapest place to buy Microsoft’s new shooter this morning? MCV rounds up all the deals: HIGH STREET Morrisons: 37.99. Also available for 25 when purchased with a 17.49 Xbox Live Points Card, making the total 42.49. Tesco: 39.90. Also available for 28 when purchased with a 18.99 Xbox …

From Friday you’ll be playing the game, but as of tomorrow you could be living the life of Deus Ex. Well, you could be dressed up as someone from the game, at least. Square Enix has announced that online fashion retailer Musterbrand has today gone live with a range of …

Ireland’s leading entertainment rental and retail chain Xtra-vision is back from the brink with new funding. The retailer’s parent firm Birchall Investments has agreed to provide up to €8m to open new stores, relocate others and fund digital initiatives. Xtra-vision was under examinership between April 29th and July 29th – …

Child of Eden is actually an important game for Kinect. A psychedelic rhythm action shooter may not sound like your typical killer app, but Kinect has lacked any real, quality core gaming experiences thus far. Finally, dedicated Xbox fans have reason to turn on that motion accessory. But the challenge …

Ubisoft is showing retail how it’s done by opening its own High Street outlet. The firm has sublet a store on Dean Street in Soho to support upcoming Kinect game Child of Eden. It will boast two floors, with a ‘chill out area’ and three game trial rooms, as well …

Some 1,700 kids and parents swarmed to London’s Moshi Monsters pop-up shop during its first 24 hours. Mind Candy – the developer behind the hit online virtual pets game – opened the one-off spin-off shop two weeks ago. The firm even had to draft in extra security to cope with …

Anyone seeking a refund on the now-defunct PC MMO title APB should speak to the retailer from whom they purchased the game, the administrator handling the closure of developer Realtime Worlds has stated. The Dundee-based studio went into administration in August following the critical and commercial failure of the game, …