It has emerged, today, that one of the leading game retailers in the UK, GAME, has had it’s credit insurance with a number of agencies withdrawn. This follows a series of store closures in recent years and well document instability in high-street game sales generally. The immediate impact of this is that when the next [...]
Tags: Game Stores, Game UK, Rax, retail, Richard Burley, UK
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On the one hand, games gross more than films, and have done for a few years, but on the other hand developers & publishing houses cry foul at everything from second hand game sales to piracy and the cost of providing online play. These factors combine with the ever increasing availability of pure digital content, [...]
Tags: money, MP3, Music, PC, physical media, Playstation 3, Playstation Network, PSN, Rax, rentals, retail, Richard Burley, The Future of Game Ownership, virtual console, Wii, Wii VC, xbla, XBox 360, Xbox Live Arcade
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