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Indie e-tailer Shopto.net has slashed the prices of Resistance 2, Motorostorm 2 and LittleBigPlanet to 19.99. The offer is part of the retailer’s pre-Christmas sale, which also features Mortal Kombat Vs. DC and Fallout 3 for 24.99. Commenting on the sale, Shopto.net’s COO Igor Cipolletta told MCV: Of course we …
Read More »UK retail sales continue to fall
UK retailers continue to suffer as a recent survey reports that overall sales have declined over two consecutive months for the first time in three years. The latest edition of the British Retail Consortium-KPMG retail survey reveals sales in November were down by 0.4 per cent when compared to a …
Read More »UK CHART: Call of Duty marks a month at the top
Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty: World at War has achieved its fourth consecutive week at the top of ELSPA/GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 Chart, fending off advances from a range of new entries. No new entry lands higher than No.22, which goes to the PC version of Rockstar’s Grand Theft …
Read More »US: Take Two encouraged by Black Friday sales
Take Two’s chief executive Strauss Zelnick is satisfied with the company’s performance during Black Friday, but warned that healthy sales at this point do not guarantee success in December. Speaking at the Reuters Media Summit in New York, Zelnick addressed the recent Black Friday sales, stating: I think everyone was …
Read More »Atari Live: Video of Atari’s "retail vision" online now
A video of the keynote presentation from this week’s Atari Live event is now available to view online on the publisher’s official website. The footage focuses on the speech given by Atari’s CEO David Gardner and president Phil Harrison on Atari’s retail vision and the plans for the company’s future. …
Read More »Entain8 brings expansion plans forward to ‘rescue industry’
Entain8, a UK based sales and distribution company included in the Alten8 Media Group, has announced it will be bringing its previous expansion plans forward after the loss of EUK has left several retailers without an avenue of distribution. The company’s CEO Kay Parbat said: In the light of sad …
Read More »Fallout 3 and Sonic half price at GameStation
GameStation’s festive price bonanza will continue tomorrow with further cuts to high-profile titles – this time it’s Fallout 3 and Sonic Unleashed receiving a discount. The High Street retailer is offering Sonic Unleashed, released a mere six days ago, for 20 this week, as well as reducing the price of …
Read More »Valve retail sales on track to surpass 36 million
Valve has published sales figures for the past decade, revealing how much each of its titles have sold at retail. From the original Half-Life to recent release Left 4 Dead, the company claims to be nearing the 36 million mark. The statistics were published in the latest issue of US …
Read More »US: Xbox 360 outsells PS3 by 3-to-1
The Xbox 360 enjoyed a successful Black Friday as it recorded record-breaking sales in the US, outselling rival console PS3 by a ratio of three-to-one. Retailers reported the console’s sales were on track to outperform previous years, estimating a 25 per cent increase in hardware sales when compared to the …
Read More »GTA IV DLC heading to High Street?
A new listing on the website of US games retailer GameStop suggests that Rockstar is to release a boxed retail version of the upcoming Xbox 360 downloadable content pack entitled Lost and Damned. The entry claims the bundle will contain a two-sided poster and Xbox Live Marketplace card that contains …
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