British retail chain GAME, a spot the place you’ve got most likely purchased a minimum of one title over time should you reside on Disappointment Island, has denied a report that it’ll cease promoting bodily video games in-store.
The report in query, Gfinity eSportsacknowledged that the transfer would make it so that folks would solely have the choice of buying bodily video games or {hardware} that they’ve already pre-ordered, or that they’ve bought on-line by the GAME web site and have chosen to have them shipped to a close-by retailer.
Frasers Group, the present proprietor of GAME, has denied the contents of the report in an announcement to Jugo Mobile, saying: “This report is categorically false. GAME continues to assist the bodily video games market, providing a variety of bodily video games, {hardware}, software program , equipment and digital present playing cards, in shops and on-line.”
Earlier this yr, GAME ended its bodily sport buying and selling service, that means you’ll be able to not purchase or commerce your used copies of titles, and it is since announced that each the usual GAME rewards scheme and its Elite membership stage will finish on July 31, and any remaining rewards factors remaining in accounts after the cut-off date will change into unusable. Subsequently, you will want to spend your factors earlier than then or threat shedding them for nothing.
In April, eurogamer additionally reported that GAME was reducing an unspecified variety of jobs, and workers mentioned they’d been instructed to anticipate redundancies as the corporate moved most non-management staff onto zero-hours contracts.
Frasers Group, based by Mike Ashley, acquired GAME in 2019, in a deal price £52 million.
