GAME, one of the biggest retailers of video game products in the world, is in serious financial trouble. So much so it’s had to enter administration, and part of that deal means the store can’t offer refunds or exchanges on its products.
Activision’s action figure-driven Skylanders: Sypro’s Adventure was a huge holiday hit last year, with parents buying up starter kits in droves. Now, with hundreds of thousands of children demanding additional figures, empty Skylanders displays have become an all-too-frequent frustration for haggard parents.
The issue of pre-owned sales at retail is a thorny one with publishers, with some folks believing it’s a bigger threat to the games industry than piracy. But speaking to MCV, some UK retailers have discussed a solution: they’re happy to share some of the pre-owned revenue with publishers, providing they remove ‘Online Pass’ features from upcoming games.
Somewhere inside the Beltway today, copies of Just Dance 3 for the Wii and The Sims Plus Pets rode in a presidential caravan with the nuclear football. That, gang, is core game cred.
I had high hopes when EA Sports hinted a couple months ago that “figures recognisable to the sports world” would be playable golfers in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13, due in March. That kind of long-hand comment, as opposed to just saying “former sports stars” had me thinking the game might include some kind of celebrity pro-am event.
An employee of Canada’s EB Games (read: GameStop) has let us know that, in one of the company’s shittier moves in recent years, the distinction between “new” and “used” games is apparently going to be all but removed.
Multinational retailer GameStop is facing a lawsuit from its own employees over security checks the company performs on them whenever they go for a break or clock off for the day.
Super Mario 3D Land is now fully available in most specialist retailers in Australia, ahead of its official release date this Thursday — a direct result of Gametraders’ decision to grey import European copies of the game. Yesterday Mark Langford, the Managing Director of Gametraders claimed that decision was made after stores were unable to purchase Limited Editions of the upcoming Nintendo title The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Today, Nintendo sent us a response to those claims.
