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Games distributor profiles

MCV takes a closer look at some of the leading video game suppliers, with an update on what each company has achieved over the past year. Koch Media Established: 1994Key goods: Games, DVDs, softwareStaff: 350Based: Basingstoke, HampshireKey territories: UK, Benelux, Nordic, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, North AmericaContact: …

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Final Fantasy XIII-2 on top in dreary February

The UK games retail market suffered yet another poor month in February, with unit sales down 29 per cent compared with the same period last year. According to GfK Chart-Track, 2,314,424 games were sold last month, generating 55m for stores. In value, that’s almost 25 per cent down compared with …

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New iPad prices – Carphone Warehouse reveals cheapest trade-in deals

The New Apple iPad will be released in the UK on March 16th and already consumers are in a scramble to find where they can get their hands on the device and how much it will cost. The standard pricing is as follows. For the Wi-Fi machine prices start at …

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Lollipop Chainsaw dated worldwide

Crazy Warner Bros action romp Lollipop Chainsaw will be released in the UK on June 15th, it has been confirmed. It will launch in North America on June 12th and in Japan on June 14th. Lollipop Chainsaw is the latest title from cult Japanese developer Grasshopper Manufacture, whose previous credits …

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Don’t be too quick to write off GAME

Upon walking into a Hertfordshire Gamestation store this lunchtime, you’d be hard pressed to tell anything was afoot. Perhaps the emptiness was a surprise, though to be fair even Sainsbury’s was virtually deserted at one o’clock in the afternoon. Talk of barren shelves and suicidal staff is clearly unfounded. The …

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GAME claims nearly 50% of Vita launch sales

Industry sources have told MCV that very nearly 50 per cent of all Vita hardware sold in the UK on launch week was purchased in a GAME or Gamestation store. That, of course, is despite the fact that the chains were not carrying Ubisoft’s Vita launch line-up of Rayman Origins, …

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Bigpoint to open UK office

Online social games expert Bigpoint is to open an office in the UK, creating between five and ten jobs in the process. It will be doing the same in Paris, too, as the company looks to radically expand its Western European operations. The new teams will be chiefly tasked with …

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Choices UK enters administration

There’s more bad news on the High Street today with conformation that Choices UK owner The Webb Group has been entered into administration. Francis Graham Newton and Paul James Bates of BDO LLP were appointed as joint administrators last Friday. The Group was the home of nine brands – Choices …

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UK CHARTS: No.1 debut for SSX

EA’s SSX series has made a triumphant return after five years in the wilderness to claim No.1 in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. It’s the sixth game in the series date yet the first to debut at the top spot. It enjoyed around twice the sales of …

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