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More Bad News For GAME And All UK Video Game Retailers

More Bad News For GAME And All UK Video Game Retailers

It seems the summer slump in blockbuster releases has hit the retail gaming market in the UK hard. Data from the UKIE/GfK Chart-track shows that retailers in the UK made as little as £8.4m from software sales last week, the lowest amount since records began. This is bad news for retail shops such as GAME, who recently went into administration and are struggling with the increasing presence of the online and downloadable market. MCV have given various reasons as to…

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Highest grossing week of UK game sales ever.

Highest grossing week of UK game sales ever.

The latest UK games charts are now in at Chart-Track with Modern Warfare 3 predictably leading the way at Number 1 while Skyrim sits in a happy second place. But perhaps more important for the business is that this was the biggest week ever for game sales in the UK according to Chart Track. It was a week when game sales took more money than the opening weekend takings for the last four Harry Potter films. That is big and shows that despite the economic difficulties, the games industry can still bring in the money.