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Black Myth: Wukong is your Ultimate Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards 2024

It's an astonishing console debut for Game Science

www.gamesradar.com

 

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Inside the fall of GAME: "no games, no accessories - instead we received 136 Zendaya action figures"

It's been a year of change for UK high street stalwart GAME, with impacts felt by the chain's loyal customers and long-…

www.eurogamer.net

An interesting piece on the fall of GAME in the UK, it has some insights from staff about some of the recent cock ups with certain pre-orders.

Probably the most indicative quote from the article from a staff member:

I gave up on GAME the moment they were bought up by sports direct dot com and my local store was shut down and turned into a tiny spec in the local sports direct store only to disappear and return in an even worse state (and their emails have said the same as it's just 99% crap and 1% games now).