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Best Buy UK will sell pre-owned games
Best Buy is the latest UK retailer to enter the used games market.
Best Buy planning up to 150 UK stores
Ahead of the opening of its debut UK store in Thurrock this Friday, Best Buy has said that it is targeting between 60-150 outlets in the country.
Best Buy brings UK debut forward
Best Buy has advanced its launch date, and will officially open on April 30th, instead of the planned date in May.
NPD: New high for Final Fantasy
First it was Modern Warfare 2 echoing its UK achievements in the US market, and now Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XIII is getting in on the act.
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NPD: Modern Warfare breaks new record
Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has now officially cemented its position as the second best selling game of all time in the US, NPD has confirmed, with only Nintendo’s ...
Best Buy preparing DSGi swoop?
Best Buy is looking to buy out rival electronics retail group DSGi, reports suggest.
MW2 is 2009’s entertainment champ
Having shattered most the game industry’s records upon its release last year, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has also emerged as the overall UK entertainment champ of 2009.
Best Buy posts 24.5% profit rise
Electronic retailer Best Buy has announced a 24.5 per cent increase in gross profit of $12.2bn for its fiscal year ending February 27.
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MW2 becomes UK’s second best seller
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has added another notable notch to its bedpost with news that it is now the second best selling game ever in the UK video ...
US: DS breaks Feb records too
Hot on the heels of news that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 enjoyed its best ever February in the US last month, Nintendo has announced that its twin-screened portable has managed the ...
US: 360 enjoys biggest ever Feb
Despite having reached what traditionally would have been regarded as retirement age in console years, Xbox 360 has just enjoyed its best ever February in the US.
Best Buy to open fourth store in Aintree
Retail giant Best Buy has announced plans to open its fourth outlet in the UK in Aintree, near Liverpool.
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XBLA revenues hit $100m in ‘09
An annual report from Forecasting and Analysing Digital Entertainment (FADE) claims that Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade download service generated revenues in excess of $100m in 2009 – a new record ...
Best of music genre “yet to come”
The creators of market rivals Guitar Hero and Rock Band have insisted that the future is bright for the music games genre, with the rising prominence of user-created content driving ...
Pocket God sells 2m on iPhone
Popular 59p app Pocket God has now sold over 2m copies on the Apple App store, becoming the first paid app ever to reach the milestone.
US: Wii Play tops all-time list
Nintendo’s Wii Play, a collection of minigames that comes bundled with the stand-alone Wii Remote, has been named as the best selling non-PC game of all time in the US, ...
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DJ Hero best new IP of ‘09
Though commentators would have you believe that the music game genre is in a savage state of decline, new numbers from NPD Group claim that DJ Hero was in revenue ...
NPD: MW2 claims 2009 crown
Much like its dominance in the hardware sector, Nintendo has also emerged as the big victor in 2009’s American software charts according to the latest data from NPD – though ...
Best Buy opens UK website
Best Buy has launched a UK website ahead of its move in to the British market, scheduled for this spring.
US: Record month for PSN
SCEA’s communicatiosn director Patrick Seybold has stated that in December Sony’s PlayStation Network enjoyed its “single highest revenue month” in North America.
Record Xmas for HMV
HMV group has reported a 14.6 per cent year-on-year increase in its UK and Ireland stores for the five weeks ending January 2nd 2010. For the ten weeks ending on ...
MW2 tops 2009 UK chart
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been named as the best selling game of 2009 in the UK – despite not hitting the market until mid-November.
MW2 aiming for all-time UK record
As Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 spends its ninth week at the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 this week, it has been revealed that the ...
US: MW2 tops 2009 best-sellers list
Sales tracker NPD has released its 2009 software sales chart for North America and, unsurprisingly, it’s Activision Blizzard’s world-conquering Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 that tops the pile.
JAPAN: NSMB smashes Wii record
Just this morning MCV reported that New Super Mario Bros Wii had shifted an impressive 422k units in Nintendo’s homeland of Japan in its first 24 hours on the shelves ...
