Category Archives: Retail

Five executives are leaving GAME as part of the firm’s restructuring process, with the vacancies are to occur over the next five weeks.

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A listing for a Midnight Purple 3DS has been posted on the Sam’s Club website. While the Walmart-owned company doesn’t show a screenshot of the system, it has it listed for $168.58. There isn’t a release date listed, and the site says in order to purchase this item, you will need to visit your local Club for availability and purchasing. A similar listing also showed itself earlier this week via EB games, according to a Games FAQ user. The unit is said to be launching alongside Mario Tennis in May. We’ll send Nintendo a mail. Thanks, Joystiq. [image]

Nintendo is in talks with retailers to give Heroes of Ruin a wider release.

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Media Create has released its weekly retail chart and Fire Emblem Awakening on 3DS debuted with 242,600 units sold. 3DS maintained its hardware lead with 84,760 units moved, which is 20,992 units more than last week. Full chart is below.

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The Xbox 360 4GB Celebration Pack, which was released in the US as the Xbox 360 Special Edition 4GB Kinect Family Bundle in February, will be released in the UK starting May 25. Amazon UK lists the bundle for £249.99 and it includes a white Kinect, special edition Union Jack skins, 3 months of Gold membership, a wireless controller, a 4GB console, Kinect Adventures and Kinect Sports.

Nintendo has launched a new Kid Icarus: Uprising promotion with Argos which will net consumers free pack of 24 AR cards when they purchase the game from the retailer between now and May 31. HMV isn’t left out of the deal, as various stores across the UK will be hosting a contest in which those who bring their 3DS by the store can win a limited edition Kid Icarus poster. Store locations and times to stop by can be found over MCV.

Chart-Track director Dorian Bloch has handed MCV a list of the top ten games on single platforms, in terms of revenue and unit sales. The list also makes note of controller sales, which you can view through the link. As far as units sales were concerned, Mario Kart Wii came in the clear winner with 3.65 million units moved, followed by Brain Training with 3.64 million units moved. In terms of revenue, Wii Fit made £110 million, while Mario Kart Wii came in second with £97 million. Get the games chart below.

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Defying industry trends, a new online retailer is planning to return ten percent of all used game sales to publishers.

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Sony has confirmed a listing by Amazon France which outed a Resistance trilogy collection coming to PlayStation 3. The firm has told Eurogamer more details on the pack will be announced at a later date.

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GameStop has announced an expansion of its in-store PC selection, 1,500 of which are downloadable and now available at 4,400 US stores. To celebrate the launch, it is currently offering up to 75% off select titles such as: Modern Warfare 3, Civilization V, Age of Empires III, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Magicka Collection. For a list of what’s on sale, head on over to the retailer’s site..

EEDAR’s Jesse Divnich doesn’t agree with other analysts who are calling on Sony to drop the price of PS3. According to Divnich, PS3 doesn’t need a price drop in order to stay competitive as “sales have been consistent and in-line,” for a platform which continues to grow its install base. Divnich also said consumers shouldn’t read anything into the console’s price-cut at GameStop, as it’s just a temporary sale. “There could be many elements at play, but I highly doubt this is any indication of weakness for the PlayStation 3,” he said. Thanks, GI International. [image]

Activision was the big winner at last nights MCV Awards 2012, picking up four awards including the Grand Prix prize, two for Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure and for Best Marketing Team. Bethesda, EA and Ubisoft also took home two, the latter winning Best PR Team. Well deserved congrats to them and all the winners. Get the winners below the break, via – who else – MCV.

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Microsoft has released its financial report for Q3 which showed a 16% revenue decline for the Entertainment & Devices Division, in which the Xbox 360 division falls under. Revenue for the division came in ta $1.62 billion, with the decline blamed on “a soft gaming console market.”

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Media Create has released its weekly retail chart and for the second week in a row, Nacmo’s 2nd Super Robot Wars Z Saisei Volume topped the software chart. On the hardware side, 3DS stayed on top while Vita sales fell another 681 units over last week.

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WPRI.com has confirmed US sales of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning have surpassed 410,000 units sales during its two months on the market, 80,000 of which were sold in March. The Rhode Island news station was provided the figures by NPD which said it was “an impressive figure for just two months, no matter how you slice it,” particularly for “a new IP.” Units sales will obviously be much higher once digital and copies sold outside the US are taken into consideration. Via Joystiq.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 may have set a new record for the biggest entertainment launch in history, but a decline in ongoing sales has caused the title to be overtaken in life-to-date sales for the same period by series’ predecessor Call of Duty: Black Ops.

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“The incentives for driving me out of my seat and into a shop is becoming increasingly limited. I don’t go to retail to buy a film. I don’t go to retail to buy music. I don’t go to buy books any more. And I’m certainly not that interested in buying games in shops, myself. If you look at everything that’s exciting, from the resurgence of PC to iPad and iPhones, it’s hard to see where retail fits into that.” – Peter Molyneux to Develop via MCV.

GAME is once again stocking EA titles on its website, including Mass Effect 3.

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GAME is to once again stock titles from EA beginning next week, VG247 has learnt.

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NPD has said Mass Effect 3 sales for March were 1.3 million units across all platforms, the firm told Joystiq. While it wouldn’t break any figures down for the site, Aaron Greenberg tweeted that Xbox 360 sales were 943,000 units for the period, out-selling the PS3 version four-to-one. Since NPD doesn’t take digital sales into account just yet, it’s worth noting digital sales across PC and PSN would make the core figure higher if included. NPD said in its March industry report sales for Mass Effect 3 were twice that of Mass Effect 2 during its debut.

NPD also told Joystiq Binary Domain moved 20,000 units during March.