A MAJOR UK gaming retailer is to vanish from the high street this month as it prepares to shut its remaining remaining stores.
GAME is about to close its last three branches in simply days after collapsing into administration earlier this yr.
It introduced plans in February to shut all its standalone high street stores.
There at the moment are simply three GAME stores left open in Dudley, Sutton, and Lancaster, which can cease buying and selling from April.
However, the model will proceed to promote consoles, video games and equipment on-line and in concessions inside bigger retailers like Sports Direct.
An actual date for when the remaining standalone retailers will shut has not been confirmed, though it’s believed it will probably be in the coming days.
GAME, which had 300 stores round the UK at its peak, was based in 1990 by Peter Wickins and Neil Taylor.
The firm introduced it had appointed an administrator again in January.
It was the second time it has fallen into administration, after first collapsing into 2012.
In 2020, house owners Frasers Group introduced plans to shut 40 GAME stores throughout the UK, together with retailers in Mansfield, Leicester, and Glasgow Fort.
Frasers Group, which purchased Game again in 2019, was contacted for remark.
