[Me. I Am Salman]

There's a CeX down Stratford but I never go to that shop
Oh well HMV I guess.

[Angus]

It's official. My son just phoned to say they have all received a memorandum telling them this is their last week of work

[Me. I Am Salman]

I'm so sorry for ya Angus

[Iceman]

Originally Posted by Angus

It's official. My son just phoned to say they have all received a memorandum telling them this is their last week of work

That sucks.

[Samuel.]

There's no where else to buy games around here :/

[Angus]

Originally Posted by Salman!

I'm so sorry for ya Angus

Thanks - I'm just so sorry for my son, he has two kids and it took him 9 months to find this job when he was made redundant four years ago! Now it's happened again. I don't know what he will do, but he needs to get right out of retail, it has no future.

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Samuel.

There's no where else to buy games around here :/

Buy them online, Shopto's pretty good.

[Novo]

Hardly ever buy games online now, The Market >>

[Brother Leon]

Most GAME workers I encountered are super cool and helpful. It's a shame

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Angus

Thanks - I'm just so sorry for my son, he has two kids and it took him 9 months to find this job when he was made redundant four years ago! Now it's happened again. I don't know what he will do, but he needs to get right out of retail, it has no future.

A booming industry right now is security, my nephew did a 3 week course via Leeds City College (free as he was on JSA) he now has an SIA licence and has just landed a job with securitas.
Im sure there will be a similar scheme in your area

[Novo]

Yeah it's almost certain someone in Game says " do you need any help there? " as soon as you walk through the door

[Niall]

It's sad to see all these people loosing their jobs, but GAME have monopolised this industry for far too long. It'll be nice to see another retailer step up to the mark.

[Patrick]

Originally Posted by King_Anton

Most GAME workers I encountered are super cool and helpful. It's a shame

This.

They're not like those Indie Hipster wankers you see working in places like Apple, Clothes Shops or HMV nowadays.

Well, they are - but they're actually really genuine people, who are obviously hardcore gamers who know what they're talking about.

[Niall]

I have to admit, the people who work in there are pretty cool. I went and bought Left 4 Dead 2 a few weeks back, and had a ten minute convo with the cashier about the game and stuff.

[Mrluvaluva]

GAME's future has been the subject of speculation in today's newspapers.

With the company filing for administration last Wednesday (March 21), it was thought that stores might close this weekend.

The Sunday Times has now reported that the Royal Bank of Scotland, which stalled over takeover talks earlier this week, intends to buy GAME. The bank, leading a consortium, apparently plans to purchase the business once it has gone into administration, allowing it to be restructured.

However, The Express claims that talks to save GAME have collapsed, writing that its closure will be "the biggest retailing failure since Woolworths".

"GAME is likely to go into administration on Monday and the process of selling its assets will begin but this won't be a pre-pack, where a company is bought immediately out of administration," a source said.

"There was contact between the banks and OpCapita late on Friday [March 23] in the hope of reviving some sort of deal. The banks felt that selling GAME out of administration would leave them facing a colossal write-down on what they invested.

"But, in the end, they decided there wasn't enough value in what OpCapita were offering. It wasn't anywhere near 100p in the pound," the insider added.


Digital Spy

[Marc]

No

[King Gizzard]

Game shops are good because they employ people who know what they're talking it about, and most gamers are sound/cool..unlike generic shops where they just give it to any old fool

Can't say I ever go to game shops because of how convenient amazon etc is..but this is only bad news as supermarkets/online websites have less competitors

Hopefully they do a woolworths and keep it as an online business at least to keep the competition up

[arista]

Game Group goes into administration, 6,000 jobs at risk

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...s-at-risk.html

Official Now

[Scarlett.]

GAME

Croydon
Bristol Cabot Circus
Bath Southgate
Milton Keynes Midsummer Place
Coventry West Orchards
Norwich
Bromley
Exeter
Plymouth New George Street
Bournemouth Commercial Road
Birmingham Palisades
York City Centre
Liverpool
Telford - both stores
Manchester Arndale - both stores
Burton-on-Trent
Birmingham Fort
Canterbury
Falkirk
Stevenage
Blackburn
Glasgow Buchanan Galeries
Reading Oracle
Basingstoke
Barrow
Bridlington
Weston Super Mare
Stockton on Tees Wellington Square
Newcastle
Edinburgh Ocean Terminal
Edinburgh Princes Street
Stirling
Portsmouth Cascades
Cardiff Queen Street
Dorchester
Gloucester
Preston St George's Centre
Slough
Glasgow Sauchiehall Street
Isle of Wight
Northampton
Galway
London Victoria
Dublin Dundrum
Sheffield
Lincoln Valentine Retail Park
Essex Lakeside - both stores
Barking
Nottingham Listergate
Edingburgh Cameron Toll
Edinburgh Fort Kinaird
Leeds Albion Street
Monoghan
Gretna
Crawley - both stores
Hemel Hemstead - both stores
Belfast
Newcastle - both stores

GAMESTATION

Birmingham New Street
Sutton
Enfield
Bromley
Llaneli
Sunderland
Norwich
Great Yarmouth
Taunton
Ilford
Cumbernauld
Coventry
Hyde
Bournemouth
Brighton
Liverpool
Shrewsbury
Stafford
Leicester
Skelmersdale
Perth
Halesowen
Walsall
Gainsborough
Harlow
Dumbarton
Cannock
Kettering
Stockton on Tees High Street
Salisbury
Hartlepool
Stevenage
Nuneaton
Cheltenham
High Wycombe
Glasgow Sauchiehall Street
Hastings
Long Eaton
Leamington Spa
Norwich
London East Ham
Lincoln
Rhyl
Mansfield
Hereford
Banbury
Middlesborough
Leeds
Basildon
Congleton
Fife Glenrothes
Newcastle

Also
http://www.shoptonews.net/2012/03/26...orce-affected/

[Lee.]

Oh.. my local Game isn't on that list, which is tremendous news for our shopping centre. We seem to have lost loads of shops recently including Monsoon and Peacocks.

[Scarlett.]

Game has now closed here in Blackpool, Gamestation is still open though

[Samuel.]

Glad my local Gamestation will be around for a bit longer, but surely it won't be long until the rest go too.

[Z]

Surprised that nothing's closing in Aberdeen seeing as there are two Games and a Gamestation in the city centre

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

we have a game and gamestation within like a minute walking distance of eachother and they aren't on that list

[arista]

Originally Posted by Zee

Surprised that nothing's closing in Aberdeen seeing as there are two Games and a Gamestation in the city centre

Updates are Stores Tomorrow
to say closed.




Zee it takes time to sort the mess
any buyer is trying to pick some store only.


And One of those 2 stores will close soon.
Or both.



Are you in Germany?