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Retail headlines

• More Game stores could close if latest Sports Direct bid successful

  British high street fixture Sports Direct has made a bid for Game, the UK’s brick-and-mortar videogames retailer. If it succeeds, it’ll look into closing or consolidating some of Game’s existing stores.

• CD Projekt RED online store opens for business with a cool Geralt Ronin statute

  CD Projekt RED has opened up an online store where you can purchase all sorts of fun things, like this Geralt Ronin statute.

• Sony will no longer sell full-game download codes at retail

  Sony has confirmed that you’ll no longer be able to purchase full-game PSN codes at various retailers.

• Video game spending reached $9.1 billion in the US during third quarter - NPD

  Folks are spending plenty of money on games.

• Black Ops 4, Fortnite, Red Dead Redemption 2, helped push digital spending to $4B over Black Friday

  Folks spent quite a bit of money on digital games and in-game purchases during the Thanksgiving holiday period.

• GameStop Black Friday 2018 deals: get discounts on PS4, Xbox One, tons of games, and more

  GameStop is kicking the Black Friday 2018 savings off early with up to 50% or more off on consoles, games, and accessories.

• Best Buy Black Friday 2018 deals: get discounts on PS4, Switch, Xbox One, and more

  Best Buy is another one of the biggest Black Friday retailers and we’ve gathered up a few highlights for you.

• Toys R Us won't be going away after all - lenders cancel auction, plan to open new stores

  There’s hope yet for Toys R Us.

• Walmart Canada loses its mind, posts store listings for Splinter Cell, Borderlands 3, Rage 2, Gears of War 5, others

  Walmart Canada has just posted a huge update to their website that adds a bunch of as-yet unannounced games to their pre-order listings.

• Destiny: Rise of Iron pre-orders net you the Iron Gjallarwing Sparrow

  Bungie announced a new pre-order bonus during its Destiny: Rise of Iron livestream today.

• The higher price of digital games on Xbox One and PS4 laid bare

  A year since the new-gen consoles released and anyone in mainland Europe and the UK buying games directly from the format holders are being ripped off.

• Bigby and The Wolf Among Us is coming to a store near you

  The Wolf Among Us has long since been released via digital sales, but Telltale has yet to give official word on boxed copies of the game. Retailers such as Best Buy, GameStop, and GameFly have listings for retail copies of the game for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 all priced at […]

• You can now buy games through Twitch, starting with Nuclear Throne

  Vlambeer’s Nuclear Throne has become the first game to be sold via Twitch TV.

• Payday 2 publisher 505 Games promises to restock UK

  It seems that the availability of Overkill’s heist-based shooter Payday 2 at retail has been sorely lacking in the UK since the game launched last week, with copies being hard to find on shelves. 505 Games is scrambling to fix the problem.

• Retail still struggling according to NPD

  Even with Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Halo 4 and Assassin’s Creed III topping sales charts, the NPD’s November report shows double digit declines for the industry.

• Who's buying? UK games retail at all-time low

  MCV reports that games retail sunk to an all-time low last week, according to figures released by UKIE and Chart Track.

• HMV suffers huge profit loss

  Purveyors of UK entertainment merchandise, HMV, announced today that they’ve experienced huge losses over the last year, with video games specifically “underperforming.”

• Oddboxx gets a price drop

  Oddworld Inhabitants’ classic – and spellcheck defying – titles Abe’s Oddysee, Abe’s Exoddus, Munch’s Oddysee and Stranger’s Wrath are now as easy on the wallet as they are on the eye. “Follow me” for more details.

• Heads up: PlayStation Store Spring offers

  A whole raft of offers are detailed on the EU PlayStation blog, check inside for the highlights.