We’ve just had confirmation that GAME Australia has gone into administration.
Earlier this morning staff members informed Kotaku Australia that GAME wouldn’t be receiving copies of Diablo III due to payment issues with its shipping companies, and many reported issues with GAME’s website.
However, final confirmation came this morning when all GAME stores were sent an email stating GAME had gone into administration. GAME’s Marketing Manager also confirmed this to Kotaku Australia, but declined to give further details.
The UK arm of GAME went into administration in March this year closing 609 of its stores. Back then GAME Managing Director Paul Yardley stated he was looking for a buyer for the Australian division, but could not rule out the possibility of redundancies and store closures.
At the moment we’re not aware of the impact this news will have on stores locally. We will update this story as and when more information comes to light.
Lifehacker has some information on whether or not it’s safe to buy from GAME in its current state.
The hate some show for GAME, and the happiness they take in this news saddens me. I think GAME is pretty good. I have found them to always have better deals than most other stores (especially EB) And the staff at my local store are always very friendly.
I feel very sorry for the employees who may lose their job. Have a little respect people.
I love buying my games at gamestores. Always have and always will. The experience of owning something physical, and the experience of browsing the local store beats digital and online retail everytime, for me.
I don't understand why anyone would be happy at this news. We are all gamers, whether we use retail or not. Why would you want our industry to suffer by losing retail stores like GAME? Or to see hundreds of people lose their jobs?
Hope all ends well and GAME remains.
LOL you out of your Mind the Game i when to was Rude and disrespectful and on to off that the overly Price was to high and i ask if they do Price match and guess what they don't EB might be High sometime and yes something it is cheap but they will always have price match it good that game is going out of business they are a waste of space/air oh and they proof how much an ass they are pushing for pre-order knowing that they are going down the Shitter I have never Bought anything from game before and am so dam happy they it going down they are seriously a waste of space with all that deadly high price i don't care about buying game in Australia anymore i started to import game 2 years ago over the internet . for Example
GAME=$110 for the lastest PS3 game
Online Store/Shopping ect Ebay =$ 49.99 or less
game in Australia is a rip off this is why game store in Australia is not doing as well as they should be
Dont know when you last went to a game store but they have been pretty decent lately, titles have been coming out at 89.95 price points and if they continue to trade, Far Cry 3, Assassins Creed 3 and Halo are all around that price as well.
BTW get your facts straight before you go bagging out a company that for the most part, has been better than EB in many regards
I could barely comprehend your comment but from what little I could understand you were bagging out GAME. GAME is a great store with all their workers sincerely passionate about their jobs and they certainly are not rude, at least not in GAME St Marys
Oh boy, I've always wanted Tiger Woods 06! Bring on the fire sale!
/sarcasm
The writing was on the wall, well on this site back in March the 22nd. Read the comments to the story about Game UK going under.
When is it EB's turn ? Cant wait...they deserve to fall because of their crappy pricing..
As an EB employee, tad offended. Every retail company needs to make money, we do it at the RRP and that's really not that bad, most companies do it. We can easily price match as well. If you don't want to pay too much, wait for a sale, because we practically have one every week.
It's fine if you don't want to buy games from EB, but don't hope for the fact that people will lose jobs.
Thoughts go out to all Game staff, but particularly those at my local store at Eastland in Ringwood. All of them good people who are enthusiastic about their jobs. I wish them the best and hope it turns out okay for them.
the amount of employees on here defending their bullshit rip offs and terrible customer standards is a joke. and i know this as an ex employee who used to be asked to get online and defend their bullshit "procedures" - procedures meaning arrogant lazy store managers who wanted to keep every measley dollar they got their hand on no matter how many customers they lost or laws they broke
Why would they ask a store level employee to go online to defend procedures? Large companies always have a pr manager to deal with these and most modern companies actually have a social media representative. I can smell the bitter through the computer monitor
I still don't know why i didn't get a refund. I THREW MY DISC ON THE GROUND AND SPUN IT ON THE PAVEMENT but they still wanted proof.
This is such a terrible thing to hear. Game has been my store of choice for many years now and the people that work there are so kind & caring. What I really hope is that this issue just blows over (all though it's not likely) and all of the employees put out of jobs can still have a good future.
Didn't think GAME would be lasting much longer cos I usually see 2 - 3 staff at the store just chatting. How can you make enough game sales a day to pay 3 staff a day....
The game near me was waaaaaay to over priced, one of the staff there was so arrogant and stupid.
EB,Game Traders and JB were much much cheaper.
although it's sad that the good employees will be loosnig their jobs, there was a nice girl that was always polite to me.