Category Archives: Portugal

GAME’s stores in the Iberian region – that’s Spain and Portugal – have been saved by an OpCapita-backed investment company known as Cherrilux Investments.

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GameStop is interested in buying 291 shops belonging to GAME in the Iberia region, including Spain and Portugal, according to a report in The Indepdent.

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Following the closure of its stores in Northern Ireland earlier this week, Eurogamer Spain‘s reporting that GameStop is set to do the same in Portugal.

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According to a recently-held press conference for the Iberica region – the part in Europe containing Spain and Portugal – Nintendo sold 1.3 million combined units of DS and Wii hardware in the area last year.

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Eurogamer.pt – that’s Portugal – is reporting that God of War 3 will be appearing at E3.

Sony has apparently sent round a press release stating nothing else apart from confirmation of its appearance.

“Relembramos,” says the rather comical Google translation, “that God Of War III goes to be available, for Playstation 3, only in the end of the next year.”

This is much better Sony. More please.

By Mike Bowden

Eurogamer Network’s just announced the launch of its Portuguese site – Eurogamer.pt, obviously – to be published in conjunction with local publisher LusoPlay.

The company also claimed it reached more than 2.1 million unique users with the Eurogamer brand in April 2008.

There are now local language Eurogamer sites in place in the UK, France, Germany and Portugal.

“[Lusoplay's] expertise in the Portuguese gaming market and community, combined with the Eurogamer brand, reach, technology and infrastructure, mean Eurogamer.pt will quickly become the leading video game content site in Portugal,” said Eurogamer MD Rupert Loman.

Press release after the link.

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As you can see here – assuming you can read Portuguese – Eurogamer.pt’s launching on May 19.

The latest European site from Eurogamer Network means the company’s now got content in in four European languages, the others being German, French and, of course, English.

So there we are.