Today the Federal Government announced it would be accepting submissions for an upcoming Committee focusing on the price of technology and software locally in Australia — including video games. According to Ed Husic, the NSW MP helping drive this Committee, this is good news for consumers, and a real opportunity for those involved to explain themselves.
There is a price disparity for tech products and video games in Australia. This is something we’re all aware of, but now the Federal Government is looking to take action on the issue, putting together a committee to look into these price disparities. Until July 6, the committee will be accepting submissions on the topic.
Recently JB Hi-Fi has decided to bypass local distributors and sell a selected range of imported video games in-store at reduced prices. We spoke to Scott Browning, Marketing Director at JB about the decision, who confirmed that JB Hi-Fi has gone down the parallel imports route, and explained some of the reasons why.
Plenty of major retailers have sold parallel imports in-store: GameTraders did it to get a headstart on local release dates, EB have sold imported games, and troubled retailer GAME has also sold imported games as ‘pre-owned’. Now JB Hi-Fi is getting involved, but its scheme is a little different…
We’ve just had confirmation that GAME Australia has gone into administration.
With just five short days before Blizzard’s diabloical threequel hits store shelves, Amazon declares Diablo III the most preordered PC game in the online retailer’s history, surpassing StarCraft II and World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. Blizzard must hate itself right now.
It’s one of those things you probably never bothered to think about. “GameStop” sounds like something it took three seconds to come up with. But there’s surprisingly a bit more of a story behind the name. Executive Chairman of the company (and also founder and former CEO) Dan DeMatteo has told Reuters that he named the company after an old franchise of…book stores.
