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It costs less to buy games from Tesco than it does via Steam. Retail price wars and general cost depreciation means that, on average, games lose 25 per cent of their value in just one month on the UK High Street. And that just doesn’t happen in the same way …
Read More »GAME and TweetDeck vets join Green Man Gaming
Green Man Gaming has appointed respected industry figures to its senior management team. The new recruits comeas the UK-based digital retailer begins to expand across Europe. The firm has signed former Metaboli and GAME exec Paul Howes as commercial director. Howes has held senior roles at Mindscape and Infogrames before …
Read More »Green Man Gaming partners with Gaikai
Green Man Gaming has teamed up with OnLive rival Gaikai to let its users try before they buy. Customers can now stream and play Gaikai game demos through any of the retailer’s sites, including its flagship UK store and recently launched portals in the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. …
Read More »Green Man Gaming hires new Operations Director
Digital distributor Green Man Gaming has hired Tim Sawyer as operations director. Sawyer most recently worked as group head of ecommerce for Middle East electronics retailer, MeMega. Before this, he was head of ecommerce for ShopDirect Group. As Europe’s fastest growing digital distributor, we needed an experienced person to take …
Read More »Green Man Gaming launches mobile payments
PC game downloader Green Man Gaming has teamed up with GlobalCharge to offer its customers mobile payments. Customers can now update their store credit from their mobile bill or pay as you go credit. Many other distributors already offer mobile payments. The movie payment market is expected to be worth …
Read More »Green Man Gaming goes continental
PC download firm Green Man Gaming is going international with four new European services. The company has partnered with retail specialists Next Level Games for the Czech Republic, teamed up with CD Media for a Greek store and is working with Vivida for a Turkey download site. All three digital …
Read More »Green Man Gaming teams up with The Sun for free game giveaway
Online digital retailer Green Man Gaming is offering free PC games through today’s issue of The Sun. The firm has provided voucher codes to the tabloid, which can be redeemed for three games at greenmangaming.com. The codes are available at The Sun’s website, and the promotion is expected to reach …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Paul Sulyok
Green Man Gaming occupies a unique position at the intersection of possibly the two hottest topics in the games industry – digital distribution and trade-ins. It couldn’t be more zeitgeisty if it dressed itself in a calendar and stripped off a layer every morning to reveal the new date. The …
Read More »Boxed games vet joins Green Man Gaming
Spiros Giamas, founder and CEO of CD Media, has joined the board of ambitious digital retailer Green Man Gaming. CD Media, based in Greece, is one of South Eastern Europe’s biggest distributors of boxed products and Giamas’ alliance with download-only Green Man Gaming is emblematic of an industry coming to …
Read More »Green Man inks CVG deal
Digital retailer Green Man Gaming has partnered with Future’s computerandvideogames.com. Whenever the online website reports on a relevant PC title, users to the site will be given the opportunity to click through and buy or pre-order the game digitally. The new partnership replaces Future’s previous deal with Metaboli and is …
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