Entries in 'retailers' (45)
‘Days are numbered for specialist indies’
Indie chain Game Player has closed its doors, and MD Gary Noakes says that the days of specialist retailers are all but over.
Halo: Reach – price roundup
Halo: Reach is shaping up to be one of the releases of the year having ignited a price war between the country’s biggest retailers.
Zavvi launches iPhone app
Zavvi.com customers can now purchase goods more easily from the online retailer courtesy of its new iPhone app.
Nintendo warns R4 sellers
In response to MCV’s news yesterday that many companies are continuing to sell R4DS and other DS piracy devices despite the recent court ruling that illegalised the activity, ...
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Retail forced to swallow VAT hike
UK games retailers will see their margins slashed in 2011 as they are forced to swallow the cost of a VAT rise.
Best Buy commits to pre-owned
Big box retail specialist Best Buy is to take the commitment it has shown to pre-owned games in the UK and roll-out a second hand games offer to all of ...
E3 2010: Kotick eyes $3bn pre-owned market
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has told investors that the publisher wants a slice of the $3bn pre-owned games.
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Who are the UK's Top 20 indies?
Independent retailers, the Davids of Britain’s games industry, continue to surprise in their ongoing battle with corporate Goliaths of national chains.
Is this the end of specialist games retail?
It’s official: supermarkets are the fastest growing games retailers in the UK.
According to TNS data published by ERA this week, supermarkets took up 17.7 per cent of revenue earned ...
MS eyes toy market success for Natal
Microsoft is targeting the global toy press in its efforts to spread the word about Natal ahead of its global launch later this year.
Call of Duty inspires new retailers
modern warfare 2 has enticed yet more retailers into games, with petrol vendor BP the latest non-traditional chain to start selling triple-A product.
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Online retail braced for postal ‘nightmare’
Games retail has drawn up contingency plans ahead of strike action by Royal Mail staff, MCV can reveal.
‘I’d be mad to ignore retail’ says Jacobson
Sports Interactive studio head Miles Jacobson has insisted he is fully committed to retail partnerships – after announcing that the Steam edition of FM10 will come with exclusive bonus content.
Nintendo price protects Wii stock
Following this morning’s news of a drop in the trade price of Wii in the UK – which was broken exclusively by MCV – Nintendo has reassured retailers that it ...
ERA: ‘Don’t get greedy with DLC’
Publishers have been urged not sell too much bonus content at a premium to consumers.
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Retail anxious about PSPgo
The UK High Street has expressed reservations over Sony’s PSPgo, but the platform holder has moved to reassure retailers that they still matter to its handheld business.
UK retail suffering shoplifting surge
Aside from the headlines troubles caused by the wallet-tightening credit crunch, a darker side of the economic crisis is currently blighting UK retail with news that both theft and fraud ...
RTT: Indie retailers can survive recession
Market analysts have today insisted that the global recession will not lead to the end of the current High Street model as we know it, and that the future of ...
