The Sunday Times is reporting that UK video game retailer GAME has to cough up £180 million to pay creditors or it will face administration. The publication says that GAME has a £21m rent payment due on Sunday, a £12m wage bill due soon afterwards, and that the company owes more than £10m in deferred VAT and £40m to various video game suppliers.
Ohhh sh*t
If somehow nobody has one, they’re selling preowned original DS consoles for £20.
now i would love to buy an original ds for 20 bucks cause i dont have a dsi or 3ds cause no gameboy advance compatibility
I thought it was already GAME OVER?
What is this, a sitcom episode?
I was gonna say, they should have a montage. XD
WTH, it’s game over man!
i see what you did there.
money: getting rid of shit retailers 100% of the time :)
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Sickr put this up when GAME is bankrupted.
agree
Lol makes complete sense ;)
Never liked GAME to be honest. Their s*** was overpriced
GAME over for GAME huh?
Ahhh, Never though I would See the day GAME would go BUST!
Don’t want to see GameStop in UK :(
GAME OVER!!!!
i went to support them after hearing they were in trouble, they sold me pokemon black for £35!!!! i now say they brought it on themselves
10,000 people will lose they’re job! But I’m really sorry to hear you had to pay for a game. You choose to buy it. Staff aren’t choosing to lose their job. Mindless cretin. Get your priorities sorted.
True.
The Situation of job losses here in England is massive…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17364461
Theres already 2.67M Unemployed people in the UK and thats very bad… the population in the UK is about 64M.
It’s just a rip-off the way so many shops are closing down which is not helping, 2 months ago in my city centre I saw 3 Tech shops close down in 1 month. No tech left here.
Screw online and hate Conservative party, they started this job crisis.
I really hated it when people chose Conservative because i knew this was going to happen just like back in 80s when they got chosen.
Oh DEAR GOD NO, where are they going to get there £7 per hour wage now
It’s not easy to get a job in the UK. I worked at both Gamestation and La Senza, whom have both gone under. Those jobs weren’t easy to get, but they paid well.
It’s so hard to get any work in the UK. Seriously. Even McDonalds turns people away.
So stop being a douche, jobs matter.
Really? The guy above posted that 2.6M out of 64M are unemployed, that’s around 4%. That is a pretty good unemployment rating. US has around 9 or 10% and had around 3 or 4% during its best economic years.
Just checked the swedish game site and you can pre order wii u and the price is pretty high.
Game was crap and gamestation turned crap a soon as they got rid of all the retro games
You mean when GAME bought them out?
yea
What games did GAME even make? I really don’t know.
GAME does not make games, they sell games.. They are like ”Gamestop” and etc ..
You mean GAME used to sell games since the store are pretty barren.
GAME is really overpriced,, and well.. I don’t even use it… I don’t really care about them unless they start to care about us.
So true man!
OMG! Finally someone who knows anything!
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It’s sad, I don’t want Game to go. Where am I meant to go now HMV? Which is insanely overpriced compared to Game/Gamestation.
Don’t just shop for it, ARGOS IT!!
Buying game on-line would the cheapest and best options or you could buy your game from the supermarket.
It was nice going in and chatting to some of the staff, but they were overpriced so very quickly Amazon took over my gaming purchases, or ASDA/TESCO if I had to go down that route were also cheaper.
It’s a shame to see them go under. It’s not about ‘where we’ll buy our games’ – it’s about the fact that so many people are losing jobs.
Online retail and the UK government is killing the high street. It’s sad to see it, even though I’ve moved to Hong Kong. It’s like ‘who’s next?’.
In a selfish light, I’m super happy I spent my reward points before I left the UK – I had £90 credit haha.
What does it mean to face administration?
Sounds Like Trouble
While they have had some great deals recently in their pre-owned section their new games are as expensive as ever. Now that most of the really good deals have been snapped up its just the same old tired games at slightly discounted prices.
They seem to be trying their best to get pre-owned versions of the new games. Mass Effect 3 etc. I noticed they had 3 pre-owned copies of this one on the shelves yesterday priced £39.99.
New on amazon is £36.99. hmmmm
Since GAME most likely has no time left…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHiUd0D4zQg
Makes sense. Very sad for Europe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsx2vdn7gpY
^_^d
GAME sucks. Lolololololol
Leave luck to heaven.
NO.
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