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27/09/2005 “GAME” – Interim Results announcement for the six months ended 31 July 2005
Accelerated store opening programme in Continental Europe with over 295 own and franchise stores and 410 stores in the UK expected to be trading for the key Christmas season.
26/08/2005 250 GAME stores will open at midnight for Sony’s new Playstation Portable
GAME, Europe’s largest video games retailer, will open 250 stores in the UK at midnight on 1st September to launch the new Sony Playstation Portable (PSP).
09/08/2005 Joint venture with The GAME Group plc
Highbury House Communications plc is pleased to announce that Highbury Entertainment (the principal publishing division of Highbury) has entered into a joint venture with The GAME Group plc to publish the official GAME magazine. The first issue from Highbury is expected to go on sale in September this year.
26/07/2005 GAME Group plc acquires French video game retailer to further its European expansion
The Board of the GAME Group plc announces that it has today signed an unconditional agreement to acquire the French video game retailer Addon for €6.2m.
06/07/2005 Annual general meeting: trading update to 2 July 2005
Peter Lewis, the Chairman of GAME, Europe’s leading retailer of video games, has made the following statement in advance of the Annual General Meeting at 10.00am today.
11/05/2005 Horse lovers unite behind surprise new computer game heroine
A new breed of “rural heroine” is taking the computer games market by storm.
19/04/2005 THE GAME GROUP PLC - Audited preliminary results for the year ended 31 January 2005
THE GAME GROUP PLC, Europe’s largest specialist retailer of computer and video games software, today announces preliminary results for the year ended 31 January 2005.
08/04/2005 GAME re-designs Property team
Europe’s leading video games retailer GAME has strengthened its Property team to enable the Group to manage and develop the European store portfolio more effectively.
09/03/2005 150 GAME stores open at midnight to launch NINTENDO DS
Europe’s largest video games retailer GAME will open 150 stores in the UK and Ireland at midnight on Thursday (10 March into Friday 11 March), to launch the latest ‘must have’ video games console – the Nintendo DS (Dual Screen).
08/03/2005 GAME supports Basingstoke youth incentive scheme
Big prizes are on offer to local kids who sign up to Sentinel's new youth incentive scheme, 'Get with...' which rewards kids for good behaviour on their neighbourhood.
01/03/2005 Expansion continues at GAME
2005 sees the start of another store opening programme at GAME, Europe’s largest specialist video games retailer.
28/01/2005 GAME appoints Eoin O'Brien
GAME, the leading video games retailer, is pleased to announce the appointment of Eoin O’Brien as Regional Manager in Ireland.
11/01/2005 Christmas 2004 Trading Statement
The GAME Group plc (‘GAME’) is today providing an update on its trading performance over the Christmas period and for the 49 weeks to 8 January 2005.

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