There seems to be a lot of the ones in big shopping centres too, where to the layman like me, you would have thought business would be better than the smaller locations.
Take Lakeside for example, both closed according to the list above. Interesting to close both rather than say to themselves we'll keep one, then shut the other, you'd think most of the customers from the other store would go down to the other store...
If they are making a loss you can't expect the administrator to keep them open, that defys logic. A loss is a loss. Big shops would have more overheads.
Bigger store = bigger rent/overheads... Glad to hear my local (Rushmere, Craigavon) has survived
Well I see some Games closed but some of the Game Station on the high street areas closed.
Maybe they will be rebranded Game by a new owner? I know the rents are higher but if the company is to be viable under a new owner they need prime units.
If shopping malls were not as greedy then more stores would last. I'm sure Peacocks wanted to keep some stores or reopen some but it was depending on lower rents.
I usually walk in there and just end up walking out again and complain to myself about the prices.:D
Unless theres any further announcements it looks like Gamestation could be staying at Ramsgate too.
They used to be until Game got greedy and bought Gamestation.
I'm surprised somebody like Comet has not came in and bought the profitable Game shops and somebody else for the Game Station brand. Even 50 independent Game Station shops would be better under new ownership than Game.
From a business point of view looks like Game will last. For customer service and experience most would prefer Game Station to stick around.
Concerning Norwich stores there are 2, one in St Stephens and the other near Castle Mall shopping Centre.
I feel sorry for the staff. I went into the store near the Mall on Saturday and the look on the managements faces said it all, and the store although clean had the look of it not lasting much longer.
The one opposite castle mall gave me some shit about the Kinect not working on a old system. It will seem weird not being their anymore. Maybe they could rebring back argos to this store.
game houndshill shopping center blackpool has closed,gamestation around the corner not sure on that one. sorry to hear that more people today have lost there job. all the best to you all and good luck.:(
game houndshill shopping center blackpool has closed,gamestation around the corner not sure on that one. sorry to hear that more people today have lost there job. all the best to you all and good luck.:(
If they all go it leaves no independent computer game stores on the high street.
From reading that list it looks like all 3 Game stores in Glasgow City Centre have all been closed & they have closed 1 Gamestation store.So in the Glasgow City Centre area that just leaves the Gamestation store in Union Street & the Game store in the St Enoch Centre still trading unless they end up on the list.There's also the Game store in Silverburn.
Odd how they shut GAME down in Southgate Bath, and kept Gamestation in Westgate street open, as the GAME store is in a new store, and is on the main drag.
The list includes both GAME and Gamestation closures
thanks
im in falkirk
looks like my game store is closing, but gamestation isnt on list so maybe that will remain open
which tbh.. is kinda strange ...the game store is in the shopping centre and is way busier than the gamestation out on high street , guess the rent is cheaper out of the shopping centre
Southend's Game & Gamestation have surrived so far...
I can see them closing one keeping the other, always seemed a bit odd having two close together when they are owned by the same company, will have to wait and see what the futurte holds for them.
This is the list I was sent, (not confirmed though) GAME
Barking
Barrow
Basingstoke
Bath Southgate
Belfast
Birkenhead
Birmingham Fort
Birmingham Palisades
Blackburn
Bournemouth Commercial Road
Bradford x2
Bridlington
Bromley
Bristol Cabot Circus
Burton-on-Trent
Canterbury
Cardiff Queen Street
Coventry West Orchards
Croydon
Crawley - both stores
Dewsbury
Dorchester
Dublin Dundram
Edinburgh Ocean Terminal
Edinburgh Princes Street
Edingburgh Cameron Toll
Edinburgh Fort Kinaird
Exeter
Falkirk
Galway
Glasgow Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow Buchanan Galeries
Gloucester
Gretna
Hanley (Stoke-on-Trent)
Hemel Hemstead - both stores
Isle of Wight
Leeds Albion Street
Lincoln Valentine
Liverpool
London Victoria
Manchester Arndale x2
Milton Keynes Midsummer Place
Monoghan
Newcastle x2
Northampton
Norwich
Nottingham Listergate
Plymouth New George Street
Portsmouth Cascades
Preston St George's Centre
Reading Oracle
Sheffield
Sittingbourne
Slough
Stevenage
Stirling
Stockton on Tees Wellington Square
Telford - both stores
Thrurock Lakeside x2
Weston Super Mare
York
GAMESTATION
Banbury
Basildon
Birmingham New Street
Bournemouth
Bradford
Brighton
Bromley
Cannock
Cheltenham
Congleton
Coventry
Cumbernauld
Dumbarton
Enfield
Fife Glenrothes
Gainsborough
Glasgow Sauchiehall Street
Great Yarmouth
Halesowen
Hartlepool
Harlow
Hastings
Hereford
High Wycombe
Hyde
Ilford
Kettering
Leamington
Leeds
Leicester
Lincoln
Liverpool
Llaneli Mansfield
London East Ham
Long Eaton
Middlesborough
Newcastle
Norwich
Nuneaton
Perth
Ramsgate
Rhyl
Salisbury
Shrewsbury
Skelmersdale
Stafford
Stevenage
Stockton on Tees High Street
Sutton
Sunderland
Taunton
Wakefield
Walsall
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Bigger store = bigger rent/overheads... Glad to hear my local (Rushmere, Craigavon) has survived
If they are making a loss you can't expect the administrator to keep them open, that defys logic. A loss is a loss. Big shops would have more overheads.
Well I see some Games closed but some of the Game Station on the high street areas closed.
Maybe they will be rebranded Game by a new owner? I know the rents are higher but if the company is to be viable under a new owner they need prime units.
If shopping malls were not as greedy then more stores would last. I'm sure Peacocks wanted to keep some stores or reopen some but it was depending on lower rents.
Not unless they come to Thanet as at the moment Game at Westwood Cross is still here.
They used to be until Game got greedy and bought Gamestation.
I was hoping it was still open... That's good :-)
Unless theres any further announcements it looks like Gamestation could be staying at Ramsgate too.
Oh bugger, I prefered going there than Game.
Oh well there's always Harbour Street for trade-ins.
If Game does go then we've still got Smyths, HMV at a push, then Tesco and Asda.
I'm surprised somebody like Comet has not came in and bought the profitable Game shops and somebody else for the Game Station brand. Even 50 independent Game Station shops would be better under new ownership than Game.
From a business point of view looks like Game will last. For customer service and experience most would prefer Game Station to stick around.
The one opposite castle mall gave me some shit about the Kinect not working on a old system. It will seem weird not being their anymore. Maybe they could rebring back argos to this store.
Sorry to say that it's now closed
I'm over in Margate myself and I preferred going to Ramsgate gamestation.
Margate GS went two years ago so we've all lost out here...
If they all go it leaves no independent computer game stores on the high street.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/store-closures-begin-at-game-and-gamestation/093365
The list includes both GAME and Gamestation closures
thanks
im in falkirk
looks like my game store is closing, but gamestation isnt on list so maybe that will remain open
which tbh.. is kinda strange ...the game store is in the shopping centre and is way busier than the gamestation out on high street , guess the rent is cheaper out of the shopping centre
Northern Ireland only remaining stores:
Donegall Arcade
Abbey Centre
Newtownards
Craigavon
Londonderry
I can see them closing one keeping the other, always seemed a bit odd having two close together when they are owned by the same company, will have to wait and see what the futurte holds for them.
This is the list I was sent, (not confirmed though)
GAME
Barking
Barrow
Basingstoke
Bath Southgate
Belfast
Birkenhead
Birmingham Fort
Birmingham Palisades
Blackburn
Bournemouth Commercial Road
Bradford x2
Bridlington
Bromley
Bristol Cabot Circus
Burton-on-Trent
Canterbury
Cardiff Queen Street
Coventry West Orchards
Croydon
Crawley - both stores
Dewsbury
Dorchester
Dublin Dundram
Edinburgh Ocean Terminal
Edinburgh Princes Street
Edingburgh Cameron Toll
Edinburgh Fort Kinaird
Exeter
Falkirk
Galway
Glasgow Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow Buchanan Galeries
Gloucester
Gretna
Hanley (Stoke-on-Trent)
Hemel Hemstead - both stores
Isle of Wight
Leeds Albion Street
Lincoln Valentine
Liverpool
London Victoria
Manchester Arndale x2
Milton Keynes Midsummer Place
Monoghan
Newcastle x2
Northampton
Norwich
Nottingham Listergate
Plymouth New George Street
Portsmouth Cascades
Preston St George's Centre
Reading Oracle
Sheffield
Sittingbourne
Slough
Stevenage
Stirling
Stockton on Tees Wellington Square
Telford - both stores
Thrurock Lakeside x2
Weston Super Mare
York
GAMESTATION
Banbury
Basildon
Birmingham New Street
Bournemouth
Bradford
Brighton
Bromley
Cannock
Cheltenham
Congleton
Coventry
Cumbernauld
Dumbarton
Enfield
Fife Glenrothes
Gainsborough
Glasgow Sauchiehall Street
Great Yarmouth
Halesowen
Hartlepool
Harlow
Hastings
Hereford
High Wycombe
Hyde
Ilford
Kettering
Leamington
Leeds
Leicester
Lincoln
Liverpool
Llaneli Mansfield
London East Ham
Long Eaton
Middlesborough
Newcastle
Norwich
Nuneaton
Perth
Ramsgate
Rhyl
Salisbury
Shrewsbury
Skelmersdale
Stafford
Stevenage
Stockton on Tees High Street
Sutton
Sunderland
Taunton
Wakefield
Walsall