Entries in 'second' (73)
Nintendo won’t rule out pre-owned move
With Sony and EA recently unveiling bold new moves to counter what publishers see as the threat posed by the pre-owned market, Nintendo has refused to rule out taking similar ...
Now Sony joins pre-owned offensive
Echoing the controversial measures announced by Ubisoft last month, Sony has revealed that users of SOCOM: US Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3 will need to register their game online before ...
Praise for Nintendo’s Ant & Dec ad
UK trade publication Campaign Magazine has hailed Nintendo’s Ant and Dec TV advertisement as the second most effective in the UK throughout 2009.
Pre-owned penalty for Mass Effect 2
An interesting experiment with Mass Effect 2 will see EA looking to discourage pre-owned sales of the game.
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UK CHARTS: MW2 locks down No.1
Despite seeing an 86 per cent week-on-week decline in sales, Activision’s might Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has succeeded in fending off the advancing forces of both Nintendo and ...
£1.8bn second-hand games in UK
Britons are sitting on a £1.8 billion-worth of unused computer games – the equivalent of one game per person in the UK.
GAME: Pre-owned will keep growing
Pre-owned sales could account for close to a third of GAME’s revenue in 12 months’ time – as the firm looks forward to another year of double-digit growth for its ...
US: Toys R Us backs pre-owned
Having embarked on a low-profile pre-owned video games trial in “a couple” of its North American outlets earlier this year, Toys R Us is to press ahead with plans ...
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US: Amazon ups pre-owned offer
The North American arm of Amazon has increased the momentum behind its controversial trade-in strategy by offering an extra cash incentive to those willing to send their old games to ...
Pre-owned purchases at “all time high”
Whilst the ‘green shoots’ of economic recovery continue to fight their way through to the sunlight, the effects of the global recession are making their presence felt on the shopping ...
US: Pre-owned market worth $2bn
Games market analyst Michael Pachter has stated that the pre-owned games market in North Ameica is worth around $2bn annually, with 100m units sold in stores across the region each ...
US: Wal-Mart enters pre-owned market
North American retail giant Wal-Mart has quietly entered the pre-owned games market over the weekend with the surprise introduction of trade-in vending machines in some of its stores.
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Nintendo: Used games aren’t in the best interests of the consumer
Reggie Fils-Aime, the outspoken president of Nintendo of America, has claimed that the growing trade-in business at games retail is not in the best interests of the consumer – though ...
GAME on why consumers value pre-owned
GAME COO Terry Scicluna has told MCV that the games industry must accept pre-owned games as ‘something customers love’.
Disney reveals Split/Second
Disney has this morning taken the official wraps off the new game developed by its UK studio Black Rock, calling Split/Second the ‘holy grail’ of new IP – and telling ...
GameStop stock falls following Amazon’s pre-owned news
The news that online retail giant Amazon is to enter the pre-owned games market has seen the shares of High Street rival GameStop take a steep fall, dipping 14 per ...
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Amazon introduces trade-ins
Just days after it emerged that the North American arm of Toys R Us is dipping its toes in the pre-owned waters, Amazon.com has announced a new scheme that ...
Toys R Us trialling pre-owned
US retail giant Toys R Us has become the latest High Street retailer to test out the pre-owned game waters with the news that it is trialling a second hand ...
UK games market to overtake Japan in ‘09
With the Japanese market suffering a significant decline in value in 2008 and the UK enjoying record sales, MCV is predicting that the UK games market will by the end ...
Peter Mandelson arrives in Second Life
The UK Labour party has become the latest governmental institution to turn to online social world Second Life in effort to spread its word to a brand new audience – ...
Star Ocean PSP arriving next month
Publisher Square Enix has confirmed that PSP exclusive RPG Star Ocean: Second Evolution will be released in Europe and PAL territories on February 13th.
Second Life sex leads to divorce
28-year-old British woman Amy Taylor has filed to divorce her huband after discovering that he had been sleeping with another woman… on a computer via the virtual world ‘game’ Second ...
New DS predicted for Christmas
Nintendo has a history of refining its hardware offerings, and leading games analyst Michael Pachter has, on the back of the firm’s strong financials, predicted that the platform holder’s ...
