Nice little comment from a Tesco boss on MCV:
“…a retailer looks at key factors like market growth, margin, cost to serve and ease of operation, shrink risk, returns and exit protection, and broader traffic and spend driving properties.
Video games currently scores poorly on every one.”
So. That bodes well. 
Popped in to a few GAME stores today to buy stuff. Even though they’re in dire financial straits, they still have staff questioning whether they’re allowed to sell multiple copies of one title to someone, whilst others are putting multi-buys through the til in multiple transactions to avoid upper management noticing and becoming annoyed at the extra sale/s.
Geez, GAME, maybe if you started selling multiple copies to everyone you wouldn’t all be about to loose your jobs. Still, not that it really matters now, it’s probably too late already. Either way, most of their stock seems to be vanishing fast, and we all know they ain’t getting anything new in… Shame, really. If any managers in their dispatch centre read this, you can come work for me. You always were the best pick/packers I ever had the pleasure of purchasing from 
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Depending on who you believe, Game Group – comprising GAME, GameStation, and until some Point larer today, Gameplay, are in big trouble. And that means you, likely Game customer, are too.
See, their credit rating’s shocking (and you dont even wanna see their share price), and supposedly there’s no cash to pay for anything up front. Which means supplier after supplier is refusing to hand over stock of the latet titles. Which brings me to the point of this post.
Here’s what some suits at Game decided on hearing EA wouldn’t let them sell Mass Effect 3, emphasis mine:
“We know [pre-order customers] will be disappointed regarding Mass Effect in particular, and in recognition of this, we will be contacting our Mass Effect pre-order customers and as a gesture of goodwill we will be offering them £5 of reward card/elite card credit.”
If that’s not clear enough, i’ll spell it out.
You give Game X pounds (in this case £5) to pre order a title.
For whatever reason, Game dont supply the title.
Game keep your £5. End of. I’d love to find the T&Cs for that.
Oh and, because you might complain and cause bad press, out of the goodness of their hearts and supposedly not something theyre legally required to do, they’ll give you £5 credit with them. Credit which we already know isnt in the best of shapes.
Yes, Game customers, you just all became Game creditors.
So thats one reason i’d be staying away from pre orders with them, or anyone for that matter.
Up next, pics of the new office
Quick link to my fav. hacker come manufacturer Bunnie Huang’s latest post on counterfeiting in electronics. The same mostly applies to video game hardware (albeit no one quite trying to pass off any truly counterfeit consoles yet afaik), and also why I’m not a huge fan of re-packaged / re-sealed games.
- A design curtosey 1990′s Geocities and Windows Paint, with
- A tsunami.
- And some oversized penises.
Nope, it gets worse. Much, much worse.
Cheers josh for the heads up. And hi to all iG’s fans in Leeds Grainger Games. Love you really
WHAAAA!!?… Is that an Official N64 controller pad of POWER x 2 ?!!! Ohh yee 
Text copied below, as it’ll fall of eBay eventually, a fate it surely deserves better of. Bear in mind this is for simply 2 N64 controllers.
http://www.popehat.com/2011/09/18/anatomy-of-a-scam-investigation-chapter-five/
/\ How to bring down a business scam. Which got me thinking, how much evidence can I gather up against my new favourite eBay scammer? Let’s see… TBC.
