Things looking rocky for GAME’s buyout of Gamestation

If you’ve been following mine and Jim’s coverage of the buy-out of the UK’s Gamestation retail chain by its bigger, uglier evil twin GAME, you’ll perhaps understand why I was briefly tempted to write a post for this story consisting only of the word "Woohoo!" followed by a video of a smiling baby panda doing backflips. In the interests of professionalism however, I feel obligated to actually explain the full story. You know, with words, and facts and things.
Around a month after GAME’s acquisition of its only serious UK rival, the Office of Fair Trading announced that it was considering whether or not the deal presented a contravention of its regulations against business monopolies. (The rest of the country responded with "Well duh!"). After investigating, the OFT has revealed that it indeed is unconvinced that GAME’s actions haven’t lessened market competition, and that it will be referring the case […]

Original post by mrdestructoid@gmail.com (Destructoid.com) and software by Elliott Back