Main UK retailer closes all shops in April – full listing

The retailer fell into administration this yr.

Closing down sale sign on a store

Main UK retailer closes all shops in April – full listing (Picture: Getty)

GAME, the long-lasting console and online game store, will shut its final three standalone excessive avenue shops from April. Having fallen into administration this yr, The Sport Enterprise confirmed that the excessive avenue retailer will start to close its three remaining shops in Dudley, Lancaster and Sutton inside months.

Regardless of the closure of its bodily retailers, GAME’s web site will proceed to commerce as regular, as will its concession stands in Sports activities Direct and Home of Fraser, which at the moment quantity round 200. Nick Arran, who has served as managing director for practically 9 years, will even depart the corporate alongside these closures.

The hunt is on

GAME was launched in 1990 promoting video video games and consoles on the excessive avenue (Picture: Getty)

Chatting with GamesIndustry.biz in 2023, he insisted the chain could be the “final man standing promoting bodily video video games” and it remained dedicated to its core goal.

Nonetheless, he acknowledged the challenges dealing with the sector, including: “We have to be reasonable. We’ve got a enterprise to run and the expectation is this may decline. So we have to fill that hole.”

GAME has been winding down for years, having confronted mounting competitors from on-line marketplaces, a transfer to digital gaming and a altering retail panorama.

The retailer was based in 1990 by Peter Wickins and Neil Taylor, earlier than increasing throughout Europe and to Australia over the next twenty years.

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It was acquired by Frasers Group in 2019 in a £52million deal, following the enterprise’s struggles all through the latter a part of that decade.