Pre-order used games

Retailer GAME has been in trouble recently with economic issues forcing them to shut down stores across the UK. Not only that, sales are down generally as consumers go digital to get their kicks. Even worse, the proliferation of the app store stops people needing to go into their stores at all to buy games for their devices. With...

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Is retail dead?

Consumers are out spending billions of euro/dollars around the world in outlets that sell video-games, peripherals, consoles and other gaming accoutrements. But I haven’t stepped into a bricks-and-mortar game store in months. I’ve been in one maybe two or three times in 2010. Am I a lone wolf in the digital age, or are...

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Digital measurement of urinary toilet SEGA (Let’s Toys)

That is a direct translation of the title of...

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Shoryuken.ie game night!

shoryuken.ie has gone from a games site in the minnows to moderately less in the minnows. We’re very happy campers here, in camp game-a-lot. So, to celebrate we’ve teamed up with Sony to spend some precious hours playing unreleased PS3 games. GT5 was delayed, but you can still play it. Not got PS+ to get into the KZ3...

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GAME shutting down retail stores

GAME, the retail giant who sell, believe it or not, games, are to shut down a heap of stores. The UK & Ireland company plans to reduce it’s 675 stores to 550 in the next two years due to worse then expected financial results according to MCV. CEO Peter Lewis reckons the chain won’t suffer as a new advertising...

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