Entries in 'high street' (60)
UK retail sells 3m games last week
UK games retailers took a whopping £73.9m last week from game sales alone.
HMV suffers difficult first half, may sell Live division
Entertainment giant HMV has posted challenging first half results, and admits it may have to sell its Live music division.
Portas Review: The Recommendations In Full
Retail expert and "Queen of Shops" Mary Portas has devised 28 recommendations for the government to rescue struggling High Streets.
Portas Review: We can turn High Street decline around
Celebrity retail expert Mary Portas – also known as the Queen of Shops – has released her Government-commissioned review into the future of the High Street.
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Halo hits the High Street early
Microsoft has teamed up with GAME to allow fans to play Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary weeks before its November 15th release date.
Rovio to open Angry Birds stores in China
The mobile game phenomenon Angry Birds will get its own line of retail stores, developer Rovio has announced.
Blizzard: We rely on retail
PC giant Blizzard insists it needs traditional retail to help turn its games into global hits.
EA top of the league with 1m FIFA sales
Electronic Arts has netted 1m UK sales of FIFA in record time.
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FEATURE: Digital thriving on the High Street
Ask an industry exec what retailers can do to survive in today’s increasingly digital marketplace, and they’ll tell you: ‘Retail needs to evolve.’
Sonic Generations Collector's Edition confirmed
Sega has announced a limited edition Sonic Generations game will come packed with a plethora of Sonic goodies when it arrives later this year.
Battlefield 3 tops 1.25m pre-orders
Around 1.25m consumers have put down pre-orders for EA’s upcoming FPS Battlefield 3, says CFO Eric Brown.
'Stop the price war'
The UK games market must stop slashing prices, or its worth will be eclipsed by other European territories, Konami has warned.
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Games Retail Guide 2011
MCV's annual High Street directory provides an overview of every buying team for each key UK video games retailer, as well as up-to-date store counts, company profiles and contact details.
Retailers praise Vita price
There may be be no word on a release date yet, but games retailers are already excited about PlayStation Vita. Speaking to MCV, online and High Street outlets have praised ...
OPINION: What hope for the High Street?
Retail is in a pretty miserable state at the moment.
Putting aside the ‘challenging’ market for games, and looking at the broader High Street landscape is heart-wrenching.
UK retail braced for summer of woe
The number of specialist games retailers is in free fall as the crisis on the High Street deepens.
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OnLive connects to retail this year
OnLive hopes to be selling its game system in UK stores when the service is launched this autumn – and insists the High Street shouldn’t see cloud gaming as “evil ...
‘Bricks and mortar to lead the way in digital’
Everyone’s talking about Steam, the App Store and Xbox Live, but one European publishing boss is convinced that physical retail will ‘win the war for digital’.
OPINION: PSN breach is bad for digital but good for High Street
For all the headlines in recent years about digital destroying traditional retail, the recent PSN crisis sees us return to reality.
UK retail suffers worst March sales fall
March saw the worst decline in sales since 1996 across the High Street.
High Street retail sales dip 0.4%
UK High Street retail sales stumbled 0.4 per cent in February in terms of value, the British Retail Consortium has announced.
Sony wants to sell PSN games in shops
SCEE President Andrew House wants to sell PSN games on the High Street.
Physical games market ‘will not recover’
The market boom that enveloped the video games market in 2008 will never again be recaptured, analyst Screen Digest has warned.
Halo gives High Street reason to cheer
The blockbuster arrival of the latest Halo put the UK games market back on track.
