News - GAME to enter administration, stays open however

[crossy]

AC on the PC does look much better. I tried playing the PS3 AC games and just could not get myself to like the graphics. PS3 graphics wowsm was caused by using lighting - its either bright or dark. There was no depth to the graphics at all. Definitely get the PC version for AC games. Btw, I 'pirated' the latest AC game when it first got released and finished the sigle-player

You talked me into it (not that I needed a heck of a lot of persuasion) - £7 discount off of the PC version of Revelations it is.
(other alternative would have been to have gone CoD:MW3 on the PC - yawn)

off-topic: also be interesting to see if the PC version has the same bugs as the XBox one - e.g. I've currently got 4 recruits with 10,000+XP but still stuck at level 10. I've also seen some NPC's stuck in walls or roofs (hilarious) and the odd bit of graphics silliness.

[Rob_B]

Well that's it, 277 stores closing, 2100 being made redundant

[BobF64]

Well that's it, 277 stores closing, 2100 being made redundant

That will be all of the Gamestations then, and probably all but the best performing duplicated Game stores.

[aidanjt]

What was the point in buying Gamestation again? Seems like it was a stupid decision to make. Oh, and so much for the second hand game market being such a giant cash cow for retailers.

[crossy]

That will be all of the Gamestations then, and probably all but the best performing duplicated Game stores.

Looking at the ones reachable from where I live and it would appear that they've targetted either ones that possibly wouldn't have had much trade or ones that are in premium locations (e.g. two stores on Sauchiehall St in Glasgow). See http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/store...station/093365

Don't think GAME's going to get much trade from me (apart from perhaps drop-in's at the one @ Glasgow-Fort, which was quite a good store) since my nearest one is now about an hour's round trip.

For me though, the best news was that my local Gamestation has escaped this round of the administrators axe.

[BobF64]

Oh, and so much for the second hand game market being such a giant cash cow for retailers.

It is a cash cow, however, its dependant on the amount paid for the game and how much its being resold for.

I think part of Games problem has been both values were sometimes too high.

I've often seen "pre-owned" games being sold at £5 less than the cost of a new copy, which was still more than say Amazon.

[OilSheikh]

Would like to see a new article now, seeing how they have now closed down ????

[Brewster0101]

Would like to see a new article now, seeing how they have now closed down ????

Have they actually closed ?

[Hicks12]

Yup the stores closed yesterday and the website is down with a notice

[crossy]

Yup the stores closed yesterday and the website is down with a notice

The 277 stores are closed (or at least the one marked for closure near me is door's-shut-lights-out) but the rest of the stores should still be trading. The notice on the two websites appears to be quite optimistic - painting this more as a temporary situation.

We'll see...

(plus I was planning to put in a pre-order for Assassin's Creed 3 to my local Gamestation - but obviously I'll hold off until things settle down a bit)

[Hicks12]

whoops should have been most stores!

[OilSheikh]

HeXus too slow....


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