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Mac Rumors (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Through job listings and and interview comments, it's clear that Apple has finally taken an active interest in the gaming market. The company has been positioning the iPod touch as a gaming device in their advertisements both on the web and on tele...
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Game Group, the high street computer games retailer, saw its shares fall by almost 20 per cent yesterday after it warned of crashing sales of games consoles. Game said...
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
It may be hard for anyone with a child over five to fathom, but selling computer games is not a licence to print money. Retailers like the UK's Game Group, which...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
The video game Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 stormed on to the shelves last month and sold a staggering 4.7 million copies in America and Britain in just one day. The extraordinary success of the shoot-'em-up may have been a boon for some retailers but it was not enough to avert disappointing results from Game Group, which saw its shares plunge by more than 20 per cent yesterday....
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | yesterday
SALES at the Game Group took a dive despite phenomenal demand for Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
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Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sales Game Group, the video and computer games retailer, plunged by 15.1 per cent on the falling price of consoles and increasing competition from Britain's supermarkets.
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BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Shares in computer games retailer, Game Group, fall sharply after it reports a big decline in sales.
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
GAME Group shares plunged to an 11-month low yesterday, after the retailer admitted it was facing a squeeze by supermarkets in the run up to Christmas.
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Edge Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
Game Group has reported a 10.8 per cent drop in sales for the 44 weeks ended December 5, 2009. The retailer’s UK and Ireland sales were down 14.3 per cent, while its international business saw sales decline by two per cent. “Recent console price cuts from Sony and Microsoft have increased demand, though revenues from increased unit sales of these formats have not offset the...
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GamesIndustry.biz (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
UK-based specialist retailer, The GAME Group, has seen a further 8 per cent fall in the value of its shares today, following big losses yesterday. At the time of writing the company has now lost around 23 per cent of its overall value since the markets opened on Tuesday, following bad news on sales in the 18 weeks up until December 5. The retailer has suffered from a 14 per cent year-on-year...
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paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
Uh-oh. Game Group shares were more than 12 percent down in Tuesday-morning trading after the retailer said sales in the calendar year to December 5 were down 10.8 percent. Many had pegged video games to be a kind of at-home entertainment that would prove strong through the downturn. But sales in the last 18 weeks (the pre-Christmas period on which Game sets out so much)...
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Shares of U.K. video games retailer Game Group dropped around 10% in opening London trade, as the company said comparable 18-week sales dropped 13.9%. Recent console price cuts from Sony and Microsoft have increased demand, though revenue from increased unit sales of these formats have not offset the overall fall in hardware revenues. Since the half year,...
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Business: Market Forces blog | guar (Free subscription) | yesterday
The City really doesn't like Game Group 's trading update, and its shares have fallen around 14% so far. The computer game retailer said total sales had fallen by 10.8% in the 44 weeks to 5 December. And the slide accelerated with the final 18 weeks of that period showing an 11.3% decline. And the blockbuster releases like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and FIFA 2010 - which broke...
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Andy's Cambodia: www.andybrouwer.co (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
My match report for the Cambodia v Thailand game appeared in yesterday's Phnom Penh Post. Click here to read the article online. Thai discipline too much for Cambodia in games' opener Cambodia’s U23s go down 4-0 to Thailand in the SEA Games Group A opener in Vientiane on Friday, with a brace in time added opening an overwhelming gap. Cambodia's hopes of qualifying...
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Business: Market Forces blog | guar (Free subscription) | yesterday
... the high street. Next fell 41p to £20.13 while Marks & Spencer was off 1.6p at 399.5p. Game Group lost 28.2p to 116.4p after the City gave a thumbs down to its latest trading update, which also helped drag down DSG 2.02p to 34.7p and HMV 5.7p to 108.7p. Moving higher was publisher Pearson , up 9p to 863p after a positive update from US peer McGraw-Hill. Citigroup...