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Despite the industry’s insistence of launching high-profile video games in the run-up to the Christmas shopping season, the leaders of retail chains believe that the video game market would benefit if releases were spread more evenly across the calendar year. Simon Fox, the chief executive officer of HMV, told... |
21 May 2012
20:41 GMT |
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GameStop, the biggest specialist retail chain for video games, has announced that it is launching a new initiative designed to prepare its stores for the launch of next-generation consoles from both Microsoft and Sony and that it is working closely with manufacturers in order to make sure they meet the requirements o... |
18 May 2012
18:11 GMT |
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Even as digital revenue becomes more important to video game publishers, physical retailers will continue to play an important role in getting titles in the hands of players, according to one of Electronic Arts’ leaders.
Peter Moore, who is the current chief operations officer at EA, has told the Bank of America Mer... |
11 May 2012
12:11 GMT |
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ifoAppleStore’s Gary Allen has obtained a snipped sent out by Apple’s new SVP of Retail operations to all retail employees.An Apple store enthusiast, Allen makes it his job to find future locations, attend new store grand openings, and remark on store architecture, design, staffing and operations.Apple St... |
8 May 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Nintendo has talked a bit more about its new digital distribution strategy that sees retail 3DS games get downloadable versions in the platform’s eShop, saying that prices for both downloadable and retail games would be the same. Nintendo, as opposed to rivals like Microsoft or Sony, hasn’t embraced the ... |
3 May 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Apple’s recently-hired retail whiz John Browett now has his own page on the company's Executive Profiles section. Sitting right next to CEO Tim Cook, and reporting directly to him in real life, John Browett is officially Apple's senior vice president of retail. Browett has been snagged from Dixons t... |
2 May 2012
03:31 GMT |
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Aiming to make JC Penney America’s favorite store, the recently instated CEO Ron Johnson (who formerly led retail operations at Apple Inc.) has poached an executive from the Cupertino computer giant. JC Penney today announced the appointment of several industry leaders in different roles. The retailer’s ... |
27 April 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Remedy Entertainment has just posted the official details about the Alan Wake Collector’s Edition that will appear for the PC platform at the beginning of next month.
After delighting Xbox 360 owners with its unique story and intense gameplay, Alan Wake is finally making its debut this week onto the PC through... |
14 February 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Apple is considering an expansion of its Apple Store-in-store program with Walmart subsidiary Sam’s Club, which already sells the iPhone, iPad, and iPod players.
People familiar with the situation said Apple was not content with its existing partnerships (with Best Buy and Target) and that it wanted to expand ... |
8 February 2012
05:48 GMT |
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The retail stores Browett handled in his day may not have provided a perfect experience, as many have suggested ever since he was named SVP of Retail at Apple, but the man handles his business well, reports suggest.
Apple, as you may have heard, recently decided to take Browett under their wing and nurture him.
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3 February 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Apple is replacing Ron Johnson with John Browett, former CEO of Tesco.com and Dixons, for the role of senior vice president of Retail. He will be tasked with maintaining and improving Apple’s retail strategy as the company continues to expand globally.
Apple made the news official on its PR site stating that &... |
31 January 2012
02:49 GMT |
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The upcoming Capcom Digital Collection, a retail DVD with some of the company’s most popular downloadable games from the Xbox Live Arcade, is now scheduled to appear at the end of March. Capcom has been pretty successful on the Xbox Live Arcade, with plenty of its downloadable games reaching the hands of milli... |
26 January 2012
03:59 GMT |
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Target has confirmed plans to open Apple centers at 25 of its retail locations this year, a move that is regarded more as a test to see customers’ reactions. Dustee Jenkins, a Target spokeswoman, described the mini-stores as “expanded displays” of Apple products. According to the NY Times, she decl... |
13 January 2012
04:03 GMT |
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UKIE, who is the trade body representing the video game industry in the United Kingdom, has announced that boxed game sales have declined by only 7 percent during 2011, reaching 1,42 billion British Pounds, which is about 2.2 billion dollars. This was better than the UKIE predicted at the beginning of the year. Rev... |
9 January 2012
02:24 GMT |
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Sony has just confirmed that owners of its PlayStation Portable will be able to score some great new deals soon, as three new PSP Dual Packs will be made available next week, both in retail stores across the U.S., but also as digital downloads from the PlayStation Network.While Sony is busy hyping up its upcoming Pla... |
22 December 2011
18:21 GMT |
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The NPD Group, which tracks video game and hardware sales for the United States market, has announced that during the third quarter of 2011 gamers have spent more money on what it calls non-traditional business models than on packages that are sold at retail.The retail market has managed to reach a value of sold good... |
21 December 2011
13:41 GMT |
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The PlayStation Vita handheld is out in Japan, with 26 full launch titles, and that dwarfs all other launches for the week, including the PC launch of Star Wars: The Old Republic, the latest MMO from BioWare and Electronic Arts.PlayStation VitaBlazBlue: Continuum Shift II PlusBrowser Sangokushi Touch BattleProject N.... |
19 December 2011
03:39 GMT |
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Capcom has confirmed that it plans on bundling together eight of its most popular downloadable games on a single disc, in the form of the Capcom Digital Collection for the Xbox 360.While the Japanese company has certainly been releasing quite a lot of triple-A titles, it’s also put out some interesting download... |
19 December 2011
02:39 GMT |
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Publisher GamerFirst has announced that APB Reloaded, the action oriented MMO that was re-launched during last week, has managed to get more than 3 million registered players in less than seven days, mostly because of its use of the free-to-play business model.
The company also revealed that APB Reloaded was the sec... |
16 December 2011
22:31 GMT |
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Developer Flying Wild Hog and publisher Kalypso have confirmed that the recent Hard Reset first person shooter will be arriving to retail stores in the form of an Extended Edition.Hard Reset impressed us with its gritty, old school shooter mechanics, not to mention its sharp graphics that depicted a grey yet still co... |
14 December 2011
03:48 GMT |
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Many industry watchers thought that the ongoing digital revolution will be a tough challenge for physical retailer GameStop but Mike Mauler, who is an executive vice president at the company, says that it plans to expand in the area and make it a focus of development.Speaking at the London Games Conference the execut... |
11 November 2011
09:06 GMT |
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Following the departure of Ron Johnson, Apple has been quick to instate someone new to conduct the company’s retail operations, and that person is Steve Cano, according to an exclusive report.Cano, who is one of the first retail employees Apple ever hired, has been promoted to SVP of Retail, according to Cult o... |
2 November 2011
11:41 GMT |
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'Trusted sources' have the scoop on a new Apple offering this week, and it’s (allegedly) about to change retail as we know it.According to the people with inside information cited by BGR, there will be a new iOS app to download this Thursday.The software will be tailored to the specific needs of Apple... |
2 November 2011
06:42 GMT |
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Apple confirmed in June this year that Ron Johnson, the company’s retail chief, was planning to leave Apple to pursue his dream of becoming the CEO of a large retail chain. The Cupertino computer vendor has now removed Johnson’s profile from the executive bios page.“I have tremendous confidence in J... |
1 November 2011
05:14 GMT |
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The new Chief Operations Officer of video game publisher Electronic Arts has said that his company might soon rival Facebook, Google and Amazon when it comes to the way it delivers its content to customers.Talking to Screenplay Peter Moore has said that, “I think what we have done is redefine what a publisher i... |
19 October 2011
09:51 GMT |
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Sony has just unveiled the retail box design of its upcoming PlayStation Vita handheld console, while describing the core applications that will help users take full advantage of the variety of features that are included in the portable device.The PlayStation Vita will be released on December 17, in its native Japan,... |
4 October 2011
18:01 GMT |
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The entire video game industry seems to be more interested than ever in digital distribution, social experience and streaming but one of the leaders of publisher Electronic Arts has said that he does not foresee the traditional video game retail store disappearing in the near future.Speaking to both investors and ana... |
21 September 2011
16:41 GMT |
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The downloadable content strategy for Red Dead Redemption, which saw a steady of stream of add-ons appear for it, was devised to keep owners from trading in their copies, thus preventing the loss of profit due to used game sales, at least according to its publisher, Take-Two Interactive.Red Dead Redemption was releas... |
16 September 2011
03:55 GMT |
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Like all other sorts of electronics and hardware components, projectors are often tailored for a specific set of tasks and working conditions, and the latest NEC product of this type exhibits this.The PH1000U is the newest projector that NEC has invented and officially launched, not too long a time after the V-Serie... |
8 September 2011
10:57 GMT |
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Sony is quite convinced that its current and future platforms can accommodate both retail and digital versions of its games that should be released at the same time, like on the PC for example, because gamers benefit from having more choices.While digital distribution has become a mainstay of PC gaming, as platforms ... |
8 September 2011
04:25 GMT |
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Video game publisher Microsoft has announced that more than two thirds of the subscriptions for its Xbox Live Gold service are being bought at retail rather than using the online store of the company.
The company cited the statistic in order to show that it has a very close relation with its retail partners and pl... |
5 September 2011
13:41 GMT |
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GameStop, one of the world's biggest video game retailers, has shared its view on the used game business and how, despite the general opinion, such a system actually benefits both developers and publishers.
The pre-owned games debate has been going on for quite some time, with developers and publishers saying... |
23 August 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is confident that the days of regular, retail game distribution are numbered, as customers are losing interest in paying $60 for a boxed game and want them, alongside cheaper titles, to be offered digitally.
Game distribution is currently split between old, brick and mortar stores, like GameStop, a... |
20 July 2011
03:20 GMT |
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A new report coming from a firm called Baird Equity Research says that until 2014 specialist game retail chain GameStop will grow its overall sales to 1.5 billion dollars by using its brick and mortar stores and its new digitally oriented strategy.
Analyst Colin Sebastian says that the executives working at GameSt... |
18 July 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Large North American retailer GameStop has finished integrating its digital distribution business segment into the recently acquired Impulse service.
The digital games distribution market was shaken up a few months ago when large "brick and mortar" retailer GameStop announced that it has purchased the Impulse serv... |
15 July 2011
02:39 GMT |
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PC sales may be on the mend now, but it looks like not all trouble has passed if a certain report is to be believed, in regards to the expectations of the world's prime suppliers of mobile computers.There are many things that can influence the marketing performance of a device or product type, like consumer pre... |
14 July 2011
07:59 GMT |
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Sony hasn't forgotten about PlayStation Portable owners, and has announced the release of three special Dual Packs, which include classic games from the library of the handheld device, being sold both in retail outlets and on the PlayStation Store at a special price.Sony is getting ready to debut a brand new por... |
28 June 2011
15:51 GMT |
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One of the uncontested truths of the video game market is that PC gaming is no longer attractive to retail outlets, which devote much less space for titles on the platform than years ago, which means that the sales have largely shifted to the digital space.Darryl Still, who is the United Kingdom publishing director f... |
23 June 2011
15:21 GMT |
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Acer may have gone through a fairly troublesome first quarter, but it looks like it might have surpassed the greatest hurdles and is getting close to what one may name normal operations, as suggested by its expected notebook sales.The biggest problem that led to Acer abruptly letting go of its CEO back near the end ... |
14 June 2011
08:30 GMT |
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Both the rumors that began to appear during last week and the big information leak that has recently arrived from inside Infinity Ward mentioned that publisher Activision Blizzard was set to launch Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on November 8 this year, and now at least one major source inside a retailer confirms the... |
17 May 2011
05:43 GMT |
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After saying that digital distribution is set to overtake physical one during 2011, EA CEO John Riccitiello now highlights that even so, physical game discs aren't going away anytime soon due to their reliability.
Digital distribution is increasing by leaps and bounds, not only through the advent of online ga... |
17 January 2011
02:45 GMT |
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Runic Games recently announced that it was working on Torchlight II, a follow up to its streamlined role playing game that got good reviews from critics and managed important sales for a game that lacked backing from a strong publisher. And it seems that the success of the first game from Runic Games was in a big par... |
10 August 2010
05:28 GMT |
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Microsoft opened its fourth retail store less than a month ago, and the company has no plans to stop now. In fact, the promise from the software giant is that more and more Microsoft-branded stores will open their doors to consumers moving forward. While on stage at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference (W... |
20 July 2010
08:58 GMT |
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Tesla Motors, the company whose goal is to produce increasingly affordable electric cars to mainstream buyers, has announced the hiring of former Apple and Gap executive George Blankenship as Vice President of Design and Store Development. Bringing thirty years of international retail and real estate experience to Te... |
9 July 2010
06:13 GMT |
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One of the most repeated refrains amongst both players and developers of videogames is that “PC gaming is dying.” But, as it often happens, facts appear to go contrary to perceptions as the PC Gaming Alliance recently released figures that show how, in 2009, the revenue derived from PC-based videogames we... |
12 March 2010
03:29 GMT |
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ifoAppleStore is reporting that Apple has started accepting applications for its “Expert” opening, at some of the company’s retail establishments throughout the US. First reported in October, the Expert position is part of a complete job title among retail staffers. “You’ve gotten a tas... |
21 December 2009
10:12 GMT |
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As the biggest game retailer in the US, GameStop has strongly opposed the idea of downloadable content, as it should have, since it's its natural enemy. Despite the support of the concept from both developers and publishers, GameStop has stood firm in its decision to stay clear of the DLCs. Well, not anymore. It... |
13 November 2009
06:49 GMT |
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Apple has confirmed plans to open its newest retail store yet on Saturday, November 14, at 10:00 a.m. Located at 1981 Broadway, on the corner of West 67th Street (New York Upper West Side), the store lies beneath what Apple calls “a breathtaking all-glass arched roof.” The Apple Store Upper West Side is j... |
13 November 2009
04:17 GMT |
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Apple has opened the first of a series of stores planned for Paris, which includes a location in Montpellier, and one store near the Garnier opera house, which Apple hopes to open by the summer of 2010. The first store is located in the Carrousel du Louvre. Present at the time of the opening was none other than the r... |
6 November 2009
02:50 GMT |
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