Tag Archives: video games

The critical and commercial star of April was unquestionably Portal 2 by Valve and published by EA. But perhaps the real success story came from 505 Games. The publisher’s Zumba Fitness rose from No.9 in the previous month’s charts to No.2 in April, largely driven by the Wii SKU. The game …

Last week UK retail sold the lowest number of games in almost five years. 573,506 games were sold through UK shops last week, a week-on-week drop of 19 per cent and the lowest sales figure since June 2006. The UK games market value also dropped last week, 22 per cent …

Good news at last – more money was made from games software in April 2011 than the same period last year. According to UKIE/GfK Chart-Track data, retailers made almost 70m from game sales last month, a modest increase of 1.8 per cent compared to April 2010. It’s the first time …

It may have been dubbed a disappointing UK debut in many regards, but US tech retailer Best Buy has vowed to fight on with its aspirations in the UK market. There have been high expectations, but customers absolutely love the in-store experience we provide," the retailer’s head of home theatre …

A host of independent retailers have told MCV they want to sell downloadable games. Retailers such as ShopTo, MyMemory and Barkman Computers are eyeing up moves to digital, although how they go about launching in this space is not clear. We’re looking at getting involved in the digital games market …

Call of Duty, Bulletstorm, Grand Theft Auto – these are the familiar names of killer games sewing their evil seeds in the minds of children across the nation. But little did we know that a far more dangerous threat has been lurking on our kids’ shelves for years in the …

forget 3D TVs or iPads, Best Buy is using video games to attract customers into its UK shops. The firm, which now operates six outlets in the country, has moved its games departments to the front of many of its stores in order to encourage consumers to come in and start …

It may have been one of the hottest Easters on record, but UK games retailers enjoyed a red hot weekend of sales last week. Some 22.4 million was made over the course of the Easter week, marking an increase of 43 per cent over the 15.8m generated a week before. …

Yet another online games trading portal is to attempt an assault on the UK market. Gametrade24.co.uk comes from the creators of Polish swapping site Gametrade.pl. That site enjoys around 60k registered users and gets 200k unique hits a month and 10m page views. In total the service has swapped over …

Exclusive deals for Collector’s Editions may irk some of the gaming public, but the strategy has reaped big rewards for retailer GAME in the last year. "Last year we offered customers 39 exclusive versions of titles, and on average they delivered a market share around a third higher than when …