Microsoft is to launch its own chain of Microsoft stores to take on Apple on the high street. All the details after the jump!
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Christoph Hartmann, global president of 2K Games, has criticised UK games retailers for slashing games prices too early and warns that they may be making the same mistakes as the music business. While Hartmann has praised the country’s retailers for creating a good buzz around key launches, he believes that games sellers are too quick to relegate month-old titles to the bargain bin instead of giving them a chance to prove themselves over time.
When we first got our hands on Home, we weren’t terribly impressed. There’s bags of potential in the service, sure, but at the moment it needs a major injection of soul content to be anything more than a brief conversation piece. We also said it would be a cold day in hell before we paid real money for virtual apparel, but it turns out that some people are more than willing to lay down the cost of a bag of salt and vinegar for non-existent T-Shirts, and Sony is reporting significant revenue from its first week of virtual sales.