Posts tagged GAME 
60 GAME Australia stores to close
GAME Australia administrators announced plans to close 60 retail stores at the cost of 264 jobs, GamesIndustry International reported Friday. An additional 17 head office positions will be terminated at the company. In a media release, Kate Warwick of PricewaterhouseCoopers said, "this is a ...
Blizzard offering refunds for AU Diablo 3 pre-orders unserved by GAME
Just because you're far away from Blizzard, Australia, doesn't mean that the publisher doesn't love you. Case in point: after hearing about the issue with Australia's GAME retail chain and how that could affect Diablo 3 pre-orders (it would effectively cancel them without refund), Blizzard took to ...
GAME Australia enters voluntary administration
Retailer GAME's Australian arm has entered voluntary administration (i.e. "bankruptcy"), with stores continuing to operate as normal for the time being. The company wrote on its Facebook page: "We are still trading in all stores and will operate in a business as usual mode while the Administrators ...
EA games return to GAME
Mass Effect 3, along with other EA titles, are now being stocked at UK retailer GAME. This resolves the key moment several months back when EA cut support and the financial troubles of the retailer became very public. As Eurogamer reports, EA's decision with Mass Effect 3 came at the moment when ...
Game Iberia's 291 stores sold to UK buyer's 'sister company'
Game has effectively checked itself before it wrecked itself, first selling its UK operations and now selling its stores in Spain and Portugal, MCV reports. OpCaptia, the same investment company behind the UK deal, established Cherrilux Investments for the Iberian transaction and bought all 290 ...
Investment company buys Game, halting closures, firings, bankruptcy
This has been a quick time coming -- Game, the UK games retailer, slipped into a downward spiral early this year, and since the first public announcement of its money troubles in February, Game has closed almost 300 stores, stopped stocking major titles, cut 40 percent of its workforce and entered ...
Insomniac reveals canceled 1080Pinball, 'the most realistic pinball simulation ever'
Insomniac has posted a timeline entry on its Facebook page detailing a pinball game it worked on, but never released. 1080Pinball was the name attached to the project-in-progress, and one of the featured tables was named Captain Starfire, after the handsome chap above. You can see what looks like ...
277 GAME stores shuttered, 40% of workforce let go, gift cards suspended
The great reckoning of GAME's entry into administration began today, with the company closing 277 GAME and Gamestation stores across the UK and Ireland. MCV reports job losses totaled 2,104 at retail and 15 from the company's HQ, representing 40 percent of the troubled retailer's workforce. The ...
GAME enters administration, delisted from stock exchange
Although it was an expected formality at this point, the once great UK games retailer GAME has filed for administration (i.e. British bankruptcy). "Further to this morning's announcement of the suspension of trading in shares of GAME Group, the board has concluded that its discussions with all ...
GAME weighs final options before point of no return
UK retailer GAME, which had nearly 1,300 stores across Europe and Australia last November, is nearing its final days unless some financial foolery and corporate conjurations work out. MCV lays out four plans it has gathered from sources, which may lead to potential outcomes over the next week for ...
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