DANGERMAN Posted March 26, 2012 Author Share Posted March 26, 2012 I've seen a list that says they're closing both the Games in Manchester city centre, probably sensible as both were A. shit and B. empty. They're keeping the worlds smallest Gamestation though, which makes sense in terms of overheads, but could really do with being bigger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wholehole Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 As has Kettering in the end Looks like the news came after making them work pretty much the whole day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manicm Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Im surprised the Gamestation in Birmingham has gone, gutted tbh, it used to be an awesome store as someone above said, demo pods and all sorts of magical gems. Out of the 3 stores in brum i would still say Gamestation was the better out of the 3, Games other 2 stores where and are shocking, now we just have the bullring one which you have to fight to get into on a weekend. Online only for me the way forward now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaolin_monkey Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 One of the two stores in Cardiff has closed, which sucks. I was going to nip in there today to get some Streetpass hits. Bah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroed Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Apparently one of Plymouth's GAME stores has closed, leaving a GAME and Gamestation. I've said it before but I love that Gamestation and its staff, I really hope they stay. Here's the list of the stores closed so far: Abergavenny Unit 3 Cibi Walk, Frogmore Street Accrington 29 Broadway Aintree Comet Altrincham 97 George Street Andover 49 High Street Antrim Unit 42, Junction One Outlet Centre Ashford 18 County Square Ashington 12 Station Road, Ashington Ashton Unit 28, The Arcade Athlone Unit 44 Athlone Town Centre Aylesbury Units 36-37, Friars Sq. Shopping Centre Ballymena Unit 15 Fairhill Shopping Centre Banbury 4B Castle Quay Shopping Centre Bangor NI 9 Bloomfield Centre Barking Unit 17 Vicarage Fields Shopping Barnet Unit 10 The Spires Shopping Centre Barnsley 32 Market Street Barnstaple 30 High Street Barrow In Furness Unit 26, Portland Walk Basildon 84 Town Square Basingstoke 3 Mayfair House Bath SU7 St Lawrence Street, Southgate Centre Beckton 19 Gallions Reach, 3 Armada Way Belfast Unit 55 Castle Court Shopping Centre, Belfast Belfast (Conns) Unit 20, Connswater Centre Belfast (Forestside) Unit 12, Forestside Shopping Centre, Upper Galway Birkenhead 35-37 Milton Pavement, Grange Precinct Birmingham Unit 52, The Pallasades Birmingham 138 New Street Birmingham Fort Unit 3a The Fort Shopping Park Bishop Auckland 59 Newgate Street Blackburn Unit 7 Victoria Court, The Mall Blackpool Unit 19, Houndshill Shopping Centre Blanchardstown Unit 112, Blanchardstown Town Centre Bluewater LO42 Lower Thames Walk, Bluewater Bolton 37 Newport Street Bootle Unit 7, 63 Parkside, Strand Shopping Centre Boston 23 Strait Bargate Bournemouth Unit 4, Avenue Centre, Commercial Road Bournemouth 49 Commercial Street Bracknell 39 Princess Square Bradford Unit 2, The Broadway Bradford 4-6 Darley Street Brent Cross Unit B15, Brent Cross Shopping Centre Bridgend 12/14 Adare Street Bridlington Unit 11 The Promenades Brighton 69 Western Road Bristol SU16 Cabots Circus, Broadmead Bromley 68-68A High Street Burnley 68/70 St James Street Burton on Trent 7 Underhill Walk Bury 20 Princess Parade Buxton Unit 13, Spring Gardens Camden 124 Camden High Street Cannock 6 Market Hall Street Canterbury 14 High Street Cardiff 92 Queen Street Chatham 152 High Street Cheltenham 100 High Street Chester 39 Foregate Street Chesterfield 22 Vicar Lane Shopping Centre (10 Vicar Lane) Chiswick 350 High Road Cirencester 26, Cricklade Street Clacton on Sea 20-22 Station Road Colchester 3 Shewell Walk, (Unit 13 The Culver Centre) Coleraine 16 Kingsgate Street Collierswood Unit 9a Tandem Centre, Christchurch Road Congleton 45-47 High Street Cork 6 Mahon Point, Cork Cork 66 Patrick Street, , Cork, Eire, Coventry Unit 22, West Orchards Centre, Smithford Way Cowley 107 Pound Way, Templars Square Shopping Centre Cramlington 4 Dudley Court Crawley Unit 8, County Mall Crawley 10-12 The Martlets Crewe Unit 7, The Market Centre Croydon 98/99 Whitgift Centre Croydon (Purley Way) Comet Cumbernauld Unit 29, Antonine Shopping Centre, Tryst Road Dewsbury 12 Longcauseway Doncaster 43/44 Market Place Dorchester 55 South Street Dublin 2 Dawson Street, Dublin 2, Eire, Dublin Unit 18, Ilac Centre, Dublin 1 Dublin (Dundrum) Unit 10, Level 3, Dundrum Centre, Dublin Dublin (Dundrum) Hamleys Dundrum Dublin (Liffey) Unit 37, Liffey Valley Centre, Clondalkin, Dublin, Dudley 7 Churchill Parade Dudley (Merry Hill) Unit L87, Merry Hill Shopping Centre Dumbarton 77/79 High Street Dundee 40 Murraygate Dunstable 6-8 Nicholas Way, Quadrant Shopping Centre, Dunstable, LU6 1TD Durham Unit SU40, Land Of The Prince Bishops Shopping Centre East Ham 111 High Street North East Kilbride 5 The Olympia, Town Centre Edinburgh 127 Princes Street Edinburgh (Leith) Unit RU4, Ocean Terminal Ellesmere Port 18 Mercers Walk Enfield 37 Church Street Enniskillen Unit 23, Erneside Shopping Centre Evesham Unit 16, Riverside Centre Exeter SU19 Princeshay Falkirk Unit 34, Howgate Centre Fleet 16 Hart Centre Gainsborough Unit 13b, Marshalls Yard, Gainsborough Galashiels Unit 8 Douglas Bridge, Galashiels Galway 5 Eglington Street Glasgow Unit L3/22 , Buchanan Galleries Glasgow Hamleys Glasgow Glasgow 146 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow 83 Sauchiehall Street Glenrothes 42 Unicorn Way Gloucester 16 Kings Walk Grantham 53 High Street Great Yarmouth Unit 10 Market Gates Shopping Centre Gretna Unit 53, Gretna Outlet Village Grimsby 24 Victoria Street West Halesowen 38 Hagley Mall, Cornbow Centre, Halesowen Halifax 12 Woolshops Hanley Unit F, The Potteries, Hanley Hanley 214-215 The Potteries Harlow 8 Broad Walk, Harlow Harrogate 2D Cheltenham Parade Harrow 68-70 St. Anns Road Hartlepool 92 Middleton Grange Shopping Centre Hastings 19 Queens Road Hemel Hempstead Unit 201, The Marlowes Shopping Centre Hemel Hempstead Unit 12, The Marlowes Shopping Centre Hereford 56 Commercial Street High Wycombe 16 Church Street Hounslow Unit 13, The Treaty Centre, High Street Hull Unit G46, Princes Quay Huyton Unit 5 Cavendish Walk, Derby Road, Huyton Hyde 8 The Square, Hyde Ilford 172 - 174 High Road Inverness 6-8 Ingliss Street Jarrow 25 Viking Precinct, Jarrow Kensington 185 High Street Kettering 27 Gold Street Kidderminster 82 Worcester Street Kingston 64-66 Clarence Street Lakeside Unit 282 Lakeside Shopping Centre Lancaster Unit 15, Ashton Walk, St. Nicholas Arcade Leamington Spa 83 Parade Leeds 50-52 Albion Street Leeds 18 Kirkgate Leeds (Birstall) Unit 8b Birstall Shopping Park Leeds (Crossgates) 58 Crossgates Shopping Centre Leeds (Crown Point) Unit 5b Crown Point Retail park Leicester 42 Granby Street Lewisham 68 Lewisham Centre Limmerick Unit 11A, Cruises Street, Limerick, Eire, Lincoln (Valentine) Unit 2a Valentine Retail Park Lisburn 6 Bow Street Lisburn Unit A10, Bow St. Mall Liverpool Unit 43/44 Clayton Square Shopping Centre Liverpool Unit 44, South John Street Llandudno 46 Mostyn Street Llanelli Unit 1, Llanelli Shopping Centre Long Eaton 10 Market Place Lowestoft 43 London Road North Luton 142-144 Andale Centre Luton 39 George Street Macclesfield 25 Mill Street Maidenhead 75 Queens Walk, The Nicholson Centre Maidstone 351 Chequers Centre Manchester Unit L16 Arndale Centre Manchester Unit 59, Arndale Centre Manchester (Trafford) 124 Peel Centre, Trafford Centre Mansfield 38A Westgate Meadowhall Unit 29, High Street, Meadowhall Shopping Centre Meadowhall Unit 52, High Street, Meadowhall Centre Melton Mowbray 14-15 Market Place, Melton Mowbray Merthyr Tydfill 4 Graham Way, Tydfils Shopping Centre Merthyr Tydfill Unit 3 Beacons Place Shopping Centre Metrocentre Unit 112 Lower blue hall, Metro Centre Middlesbrough 108 Linthorpe Road Middleton G14 Middleton Shopping Centre Milton Keynes Unit SU 10, Midsumer Place Monaghan Unit 27 Monaghan Shopping Centre Newark 9 St Marks Place Newbury 63A North Brook Street Newcastle 8 High Friars, Eldon Square Newcastle Fenwicks Concession Newcastle 78 Grainger Street Newport 13 Commercial Street Newport Isle Of Wight 63 High Street Newry Unit 12A, Buttercrane Shopping Centre North Finchley 776 High Road North Shields Comet Northampton 17 Abingdon Street Norwich 17 St Stephens Street Norwich 3-4 Castle Mall Shopping Centre Nottingham Unit 2, 33 Listergate Nuneaton 2A Market Place Oldham Unit 18, The Spindles Shopping Centre Omagh Unit 5, Main Street Development Orpington 79 - 81 The Walnuts, Orpington, BR6 0TW Perth 9 Scott Street Peterlee 21 Yoden Way Plymouth 81/83 New George Street Portadown Unit 6, High Street Mall Portsmouth 7 Meadow Walk, Cascades Shopping Centre Preston 8 Fishergate Centre Preston 172 Friargate Putney Unit 28, Exchange Shopping Centre Ramsgate 30 High Street Reading Unit 17 Oracle Shopping Centre Redcar Unit 8, Regent Centre Rhyl 64 High St Rochdale 54 Market Way Rugby 45-46 Clocktower Centre Runcorn 48 Forest Walk, Halton Lea Shopping Centre Salisbury 11 High Street Scarborough 112B Westborough Scunthorpe 58 High Street Sheffield Unit 22/24, Fargate Sheffield 37/41 The Moor Shrewsbury 3-4 Castle Street Skelmersdale UNIT 27 Upper Mall, The Concourse Shopping Centre Slough N21 Curzon Mall, Queensmere Centre Solihull Comet South Shields 89/91 King Street Southampton Unit SU8, West Quay Centre Southampton 82 Above Bar Street Southport 203 Lord Street Speke Comet St Albans Unit 32, The Maltings Stafford 21 Gaolgate Street Staines 54 High Street Stevenage 64 Queensway Stevenage 54 Queensway Stirling Unit 24, The Thistle Centre Stockport Comet Stockton-on-Tees Unit SU32, Wellington Square Stockton-on-Tees 134B High Street Stratford 88 The Mall Stratford upon Avon 13 Town Square Shopping Centre Sunderland 251 High Street Sunderland 27 Blandford Street Sutton 192 High Street Sutton Coldfield Unit SU7, New Hall Walk, Lower Sutton Parade Swansea 12 Union Street Swindon 9 Havelock Square, Brunel Shopping Centre Swindon 7 Regent Sreet Tallaght Unit 307, The Square Tamworth Unit 18, Ankerside Taunton 47 North Street Telford Unit 6, 159 New Mall, Telford Shopping Centre Telford 32 Sherwood Street, Telford Shopping Centre Torquay 5 Union House Truro Unit 2, 4/6 Pyder Street Uxbridge 13 Market Square Victoria 10 Victoria Place, Buckingham Palace Road Wakefield 17 Kirkgate Walsall 42 Old Square Shopping Centre Walthamstow Unit 11A, Selbourne Centre Wandsworth 61 South Mall, Wandsworth Shopping Centre Warrington 46 The Mall Washington Unit 30 Albany Mall, The Galleries Washington 26 Albany Mall Welwyn Garden City 21 The Howard Centre Wembley 458 High Road West Belfast Unit 4 Park Centre, Donegall Road Weston Super Mare 85 High Street Weymouth Unit 5, Bond Street Centre Wigan 23 Market Place Winchester 106A High Street Windsor 21 King Edward Court Woking 4 Middle Walk Wolverhampton 27 Dudley Street Wood Green 83 High Road Woolwich 112 Powis Street Wrexham 42-43 Hope Street Wythenshawe 18 The Birtles, Wythenshawe Yeovil 13-15 Vicarage Walk, Quedam Shopping Centre York Unit3, 5 Spurriergate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroed Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Apparently if you send your points card into shopto they'll give you £3 credit. Ouch and lolz New customers only. Pretty shitty thing to do, but competition's competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Reflex Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/games/894208-d-day-for-game-as-rbs-rumours-gain-pace UK retailer GAME Group, which also owns the Gamestation chain of stores, is set to officially enter administration today - and it does without having found any buyer for its business. Comet owner OpCapita and retail investor Hilco both apparently gave up their interest in the company over the weekend, with GAME now facing total collapse unless a last minute buyer is found. According to The Telegraph though RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) is interested in making an offer, but won't do so until it enters administration today - at which point it can pick and choose the assets it wants at rock bottom prices. RBS are one of the key lenders that got GAME into its current predicament (banks, don't you just love 'em?) and according to The Telegraph were also the ones that blocked OpCapita's bid over the weekend - apparently so they could keep GAME for themselves. Although they'd actually be leading a consortium of other investors, if RBS are successful it'd technically mean that GAME would become a state-owned business - since taxpayers had to bail out RBS during the financial crisis and still own a majority stake in the bank. Trade paper MCV suggests that American retailer GameStop is also waiting for the company to enter administration over the next few hours, but its primary interested has only ever seemed to be GAME's Spanish chain of stores. '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 told MCV. 'There was contact between the banks and OpCapita late on Friday 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.' Although RSB's exact intentions are not clear, if GameStop or another company make a move for GAME they're likely only to save the best performing locations and certainly not every store in towns with two or three different GAME and Gamestation outlets. On Wednesday the two most likely scenarios were that GAME would go into administration today and either all the Gamestation stores would be closed down immediately, or all or most GAME stores as well. Nothing over the weekend seems to have changed this and thousands of employees across the country still seem to be in the dark as to what is going on. We'll certainly have more updates throughout the day though, as we learn more. The whole RBS blocking the sale is a pretty interesting development I think. I find it pretty amusing that if they do buy the assets of GAME, then a shop on the highstreet becomes owned by the tax payer. I totally wouldn't have seen that one coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Reflex Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/games/894366-irish-game-stores-start-sit-in-protest-list-of-closures-confirmed Yesterday staff from 13 of GAME's Irish stores threatened a sit-in protest over unpaid redundancies, and now several have made good on that threat. Ben Lamb O'Sullivan has been updating his Facebook page from the Monaghan branch, where former staff have been protesting that they were not giving the required 30 days notice before being made redundant. 'Just had an administrator at our door, ain't getting our keys! It's all official now!' says one Facebook update from O'Sullivan. Other staff in Ireland and beyond have also started to complain that administrators PwC intend to pay them only their standard March wages, with nothing extra for their notice period or any redundancy compensation. PwC has now confirmed that 277 GAME and Gamestation stores have been closed in the UK and Ireland, from a total of 610 last week. Around 2,104 people are believed to have been made redundant as a result Getting messy in Ireland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopGunKnacker Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 yeah im redundatron too.. perhaps the cup is half full though, the people that kept their jobs still have that same sword dangling over them, it aint nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manicm Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 The thing is, is it enough to help Game survive, i get the feeling it will be gone very soon. Its a pity Tesco doesn't pick it up would be great to actually have a decent selection in all our stores and clubcard points! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spatular Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 unlucky TopGun, hope the job hunt and stuff goes well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinzon Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Yeah, good luck with that TGK. Look on the bright side, at least you'll be able to put some serious gaming time in now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted March 28, 2012 Author Share Posted March 28, 2012 Good luck TGK, at the very least I hope you managed to nick something to take with you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendo Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Wasn't sure which shop in Chester was closed as there's GAME and Gamestation both on the same street, but it's the GS that's closed. Staff in Game seemed ok, they tried to be polite to the people in there moaning about their reward cards, which is a petty thing considering their jobs are up in the air, but those customers probably don't realise that. Seemed very barren in there. Good luck, TGK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sambob Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 In Bath its the Game thats closed, which is odd as it had only recently relocated to the new shopping bit at the bottom whilst the Gamestation thats stayed open is in the less popular part of town. Given the sort of place Bath is, Id have thought Game would be the better for the mums to go in rather than Gamestation, but im sure there was reasoning to it, sales and ting. The girl in there seemed as inconvenienced to be serving me as she usually does though, so some things dont change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopGunKnacker Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 cheers guys. Staff in Game seemed ok, they tried to be polite to the people in there moaning about their reward cards, which is a petty thing considering their jobs are up in the air, but those customers probably don't realise that. yeah that was tough, i felt really sorry for people with a lot of money on a card but not so much for the staggering amount of people complaining about their 2.50 whilst our jobs were on the line. hard to remain polite, but i managed it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manicm Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 The website is down for maintanence, so it sayes. Not sure when it went off, but it does explain the situation they are in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Reflex Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/games/894627-game-reward-cards-reactivated The use of reward and gifts cards at GAME was suspended when the company went into administration on Monday. As soon as it did hundreds of stores were closed and thousands of jobs were lost.Things are looking increasingly brighter for those stores that remain though, with current rumours suggesting the company could be brought out of administration tomorrow, following the acceptance of a buyout from RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland). Although other sources claim that a counter offer from the owner of Comet is also being considered. That's all still just rumour at the moment, but reactivating reward cards is definitely happening, according to Twitter posts from GAME themselves. 'Reward Card Update 1: Your Reward Cards have now been reactivated by the Administrators for redemption against pre-owned stock,' said the first post. 'Reward Card Update 2: This means that points can be earned on all products AND redeemed against pre-owned items as of now,' added the second. What's also encouraging is that the use of reward cards is also now mentioned on GAME's website. The site still isn't open for business but again this seems a positive sign that it might be returning soon. Looks like you get a second chance of getting rid of those points if you have not already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Reflex Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/games/894590-game-out-of-administration-by-tomorrow-claim-sources UK retailer GAME could be out of administration by tomorrow according to the latest industry rumours, with the bid led by former lender RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) looking the most likely to be accepted. GAME officially went into administration on Monday, at which point 277 GAME and Gamestation stores were immediately closed and around 2,000 people made redundant. There's now seems no way those stores can be saved, but the future of the remaining 333 is looking a lot brighter than earlier in the week. According to 'multiple sources' speaking to website MCV the deal by RBS is very close to being accepted by administrators, rather than alternative offers from US chain GameStop and Comet owners OpCapita. Nothing official has been announced yet though and even if the rumours are true the deal could still fall through. RBS were a former lender to GAME and their refusal to grant more favourable credit insurance precipitated the company's downfall. That in itself isn't controversial, given GAME's shaky financial ground at the time, but insiders have suggested that RBS blocked a bid of OpCapita that would've saved all of GAME's workforce. If that's ever proven true then the political fallout could be considerable. The assumption now is that if RBS's deal goes through it will look to reorganise and rebrand GAME and Gamestation with fewer stores around the country. Publishers are already calling for the chain to diversify and model itself more on Apple stores than the old second-hand obsessed model. Things could be looking up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wholehole Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 That's a good sign. If they do end up re-branding there are a few things i'd like to see from a new GAME: - Way more focus on new games and better deals to compete with the online market. A reward scheme is not enough any more. - Cheaper pre-owned titles, e.g. if a new game is £40, then the pre-owned equivalent should be more in the region of £30 - £32. - Way less focus on the whole sales patter and a less aggressive up-sell when buying. - Bring back the awesome returns policy you had. I used to be much more likely to buy games knowing that if they were shite I could just return them for a refund. 9 times out of 10 i'd just keep hold of it anyway unless it was a real turkey. The system would just need revising and policing a bit better to stop people taking the piss, but it could be done. - Stop worrying so much about stats and shop traffic to sales ratios etc. and just concentrate more on the actual games themselves. and, most importantly: - Organise your damn shelves (especially the pre-owned sections) so the spines face outwards unless every copy behind the front facing boxes are identical. It annoys me no end thumbing through boxes to see what's behind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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