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EB Games Australia has opened pre-orders for the PlayStation 4 at $899, which is about £600/€700/¥86,000. Australian prices tend to be quite a bit higher than international price points after currency conversion. For comparison, the 60GB PlayStation 3 originally launched at $999 in Australia, which is now worth about £670/€780/¥96,000, but the PS3 actually retailed at £425/€599/¥59,980 in respective territories. In any case, it’s just an estimate at this stage.

Thanks, adumicic.

GameStop-family retailers across Australia, New Zealand and several European nations will begin selling PlayStation Network games and DLC in-store.

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An EB Games Australia representative said a whopping local price tag for the Wii U added to the retailer’s website in December is a placeholder.

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Employees of GameStop owned EB Games in Canada have stated that the company is to stop differentiating between the price tags on new and used games, making it harder for customers to tell the two apart.

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Major specialist retail chains have responded to isolated street date breaks with a mass release of The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim.

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Australian retailers have been ordered to remove Battlefield 3 from sale after at least two stores broke street date.

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Warner Bros. has unveiled a schmick limited edition of Batman Arkham City, available only through EB Games stores in Australia and New Zealand.

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An Australian retailer has listed the Wii U for pre-order at AUD $598.00, which is about half the price of the moon in real money terms.

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It’s not Australia’s fault that it’s on the other side of the planet to, seemingly, all the cool stuff. Major games shows, conventions and expos never make it Down Under – but all that’s about to change.

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Retailer EB Games has launched a petition in Australia to try and help the fight to legalise an R18 classification in the country.

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As you can see on Gamerchip, EB has sent out an email to subscribers in Australia saying that Fallout 3 will release on October 17.

Bethesda has yet to confirm a PAL date despite saying the game will ship in the US on October 7 at E3.

A Bethesda rep in the UK this morning re-confirmed that the current European release for the anticipated RPG is “fall.”

We’re having a chat with Peter Hines at Games Convention next week, so we’ll try to get something out of him on this then. Anything else you want asked, post it in the comments or on the board.

According to unofficial reports on Geekpulp , New Zealand’s largest independent gaming store, The Gamesman, will soon by bought out by industry retail giant EB Games.

All existing Gamesman stores in the country will be rebranded under the EB Games name in time, says the piece.

By Michael O’Connor

EB Games Australia has outright denied any kind of fight with Microsoft over the corporation’s refusal to take back AU$10 million worth of faulty Xbox 360s, says this.

EB Games Australia and New Zealand merchandising director Shane Stockwell said shortages of the machine had “nothing to do with defective issues whatsoever… We’ve just sold all of our stock.”

So there you go. Glad we got that cleared up.