GAME, River Island, Quiz and extra shops are shutting down – full checklist of affected areas

The ever-evolving British excessive road is saying goodbye to among the most established shops of the previous three a long time.

Store closure sign on shopfront window.

Outlets preserve closing down on British excessive streets (Picture: Getty)

As soon as working round 300 shops throughout the UK excessive road, Recreation has incurred a mighty fall from its heyday. As reported by the Retail Gazette, the video video games retailer has confirmed its three remaining shops – in Dudley, Lancaster and Sutton – will cease buying and selling from April 2026. Recreation shops closing down embody: Merry Hill, Dudley; Nicholas Arcade, Lancaster; and Occasions Sq. Purchasing Centre in Sutton.

This follows its transfer into administration earlier this 12 months, which implies the retailer entered a authorized course of as a result of it will possibly’t pay its money owed. Its on-line enterprise, nevertheless, will proceed to function – and there are greater than 200 concession shops inside the likes of Sports activities Direct and Home of Fraser.

The problem, nevertheless, continues as extra shoppers flip in the direction of digital downloads to play a brand new sport, which could be very completely different from when the shop first opened in 1990.

Maybe because of the reputation in on-line procuring, one other British excessive road retailer is seen much less regularly on the excessive road, too.

Trend retailer River Island closed down 27 shops initially of this 12 months all throughout the UK.

Despite the fact that the primary retailer launched in 1988, and the model grew to become recognisable throughout the UK, its operation is now dwindling down. Website areas misplaced embody Leeds Birstall Park, Surrey Quays in London, and Poole.

Now vogue retailer QUIZ, first based in 1993 in Scotland, is vulnerable to retailer closures because it entered administration in February 2026.

All QUIZ shops vulnerable to closing down:

Aberdeen
Basingstoke
Belfast – Castlecourt
Bracknell
Cardiff
Carlisle
Castleford
Clydebank
Craigavon
Derby
Dunfermline
Eastbourne
Gateshead – metro
Glasgow – Braehead
Glasgow – Buchanan Galleries
Glasgow – Fort
Glasgow – St Enoch
Hanley
Hull
Inverness
Irvine
Leeds – Whiterose
Leicester
Livingston
Manchester – Arndale
Manchester – Trafford Centre
Mansfield
Merryhill
Newry
Newtownabbey
Northampton
Norwich
Porstmouth
Romford
Sheffield – Meadowhall
Stirling
Telford
Thurrock – Lakeside
Warrington
Watford

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Not solely that, Claire’s Equipment – which opened its first UK retailer in 1996 – entered administration and is now looking out for a purchaser. If nobody decides to purchase the enterprise, then 150 of the UK shops might be pressured to shut down.

Even charity store Most cancers Analysis UK is closing down as much as 88 branches by Might 2026.