Activision has opened special Skylanders concessions in three HMV stores.
Special areas can be found in HMV's Oxford Street, Manchester and Glasgow branches. Each area will feature a variety of Skylanders products (including licensed cards, puzzles, wallets, bags and badges), character art, artificial grass and dedicated games stations.
Click to view this week's top 20 all platform chart from MCV - obviously Black Ops will make an appearance next week so Halo4 enjoys a few days in the limelight before Activision's all conquering beast of a franchise hits the charts (after a full week of sales)
Supermarkets are now the UK's biggest games retailers
Supermarkets have eclipsed specialists to become Britain’s No.1 games retailers.
The likes of Asda, Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s have edged past GAME and Amazon and made more money from games sales than any other retail sector, according to the latest data from Kantar Worldpanel seen by MCV
EA says that FIFA 13 pre-orders have topped 875,000 units two weeks ahead of launch.
The total, which is based on internal sales data, is up 37 per cent year over year in Europe and up 62 per cent in North America, according to the publisher.
Continuing the September profile resurgence for Kinect Sports, an optimised
double-pack of BAFTA-winning bestsellers Kinect Sports and
Season Two is released to retail today under the title of
Kinect Sports Ultimate Collection.
This angers me.. In our household, we have Kinect Sports 1 and Kinect Sports Season 2 .... If we were playing Season 1 and somebody wanted to play one of the minigames on Season 2, we would have to quit the game ... go get the disk ... put it in ... load up the game ...... and now this new pack would allow people to have both games' sports on one game disk.
Kinect Sports are excellent users of DLC to freshen up their games - Season 2 featured no less than FIVE DLC releases, often with entirely new sports - adding Basketball months after release.
DLC also came in the form of 'maps' - like with their Ski game and their Golf game.
Now it seems they are extending the shelf life of the Kinect Sports brand by reaching out to newcomers (not people like our house which already has both games!)
