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Having kicked off its Black Friday promotion with the now sold out Uncharted 3 for 22.97, GameStop.co.uk has now gone live with an amazing offer for EA’s Battlefield 3. The game is currently available on either PS3 or Xbox 360 for just 22.97. The promotion will run until 8pm tonight, …

The new President of Ireland Michael D Higgins has used his first official public engagement to attack video games. He issued the warning when attending an event at The Ark in Dublin’s Temple Bar – his first presidential appointment since taking office on November 11th. The 70 year old told …

Retail giant Sainsbury’s has been the first supermarket to go aggressive on pricing this year. But it’s not new software the grocer is discounting – the firm has instead slashed up to 25 per cent off new games hardware That means the 160GB PS3 is down to 157.99, 3DS is …

Activision Blizzard parent Vivendi has squashed industry chatter that it is opening a new games business. Recent rumours swirled that the entertainment firm, which last week bought record label EMI, wants to establish a digital games company separate from the Call of Duty and Warcraft publisher it has a 60 …

MCV quizzes UKIE board member and Sega UK MD John Clark on the importance of including digital sales into the weekly charts… You spoke at the London Games Conference this month about the evolution of packaged and digital content. Before LGC we surveyed 1,000 industry experts and three quarters said …

The UK digital sales charts have been a long time coming, but Sega’s John Clark is confident the industry will be satisfied. The managing director for Sega’s UK arm also heads up the publisher’s digital projects, and has been involved with the creation of the digital charts from the beginning.While …

GB Eye has signed the rights to produce official 2D and 3D posters, stickers, badges and temporary tattoos for EA games Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 3. "We’re very pleased to extend the range of gaming merchandise to include not only Dragon Age 3 but also Mass Effect 3,” …

Forget Online Passes – renting is the new weapon for the war on pre-owned. Publishers have backed Blockbuster’s marketing push for its rental business as it ‘takes away from trade-ins’, the entertainment giant has told MCV. Consumers renting a game for 5 for five nights is a better option than …

Call of Duty triggered its customary retail surge, but the games that dared go up against it were also victorious. Last week was the UK games market’s biggest week ever in terms of revenues, bringing in 120.8m.More than 3m games were sold. While Modern Warfare 3 accounted for most, GfK …

It may not top the record-breaking performance of the UK games market last week, but tomorrow is set to be one of the busiest days of the year for games retailers. Eight top-tier games will all be released tomorrow drawing in fans from across a range of genres. The headline …