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UK retailer GAME faces administration as shares plummet

Written by James Delahunty @ 12 Mar 2012 23:04 User comments (1)

UK retailer GAME faces administration as shares plummet UK video game retailer faces administration.
Shares of GAME took a nosedive on Monday after the firm told shareholders that their investment in the chain could be worthless. "It is uncertain whether any of the solutions currently being explored by the board will be successful or will result in any value being attributed to the shares of the company," the firm stated to investors.

GAME is still in talks with suppliers while sending some customers away to other stores to buy the latest releases, such as Mass Effect 3, and is seeking alternative sources of funding.

Shares in GAME had lost 94 percent of their value during the past year before Monday. It operates from 1270 stores in 9 European markets and Australia, and employs 10,000 staff. In two weeks time, the firm needs to make a large payment. Failure to do so could result in administration.

Recently, GAME has been shutting some of its stores and moving into digital distribution, hoping to avoid the fate of others in the music business in the past decade.

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115.3.2012 17:14

This comes as no suprise!! Game bought out Gamestation at a huge loss and with all thier faffing about boycotting various companies for trivial reasons (forcing customers to order games online then continuing to buy online due to Game's unreliablility) and thier unwritten policies of not employing over 25s in thier shops and not providing any type of expertise in the gaming industry at all on the shop floor along with thier various unreasonable no returns policies and the selling of various banned games (That's Life 1 and 2 for example) and selling games where the staff have used the cd code keys previous to selling to the public and producing non-realistic game charts with World of warcraft dominating thier charts every week, I am not suprised this company has not collapsed long before this.

The only downfall is that many towns (like mine) don't have any other gaming retail outlets (Wouldn't it be nice if Amazon.com or Play.com had high street outlets!!! hmmm very interesting),

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