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UK Game Market Soars 17%
Edge Online - Interactive Entertainment Today — Videogames became the UK’s fastest growing entertainment retail sector of 2008, according to trade group Entertainment Retailers Association. ERA claims that the games market posted unit sales of 82.8 million in 2008, a 17 percent rise from the previous year. And, according to a report from Reuters, the growth of the industry was driven by the ongoing popularity of the Wii. read more

Game Sales Up 17% In The UK [Retail]
Kotaku — ... that total entertainment sales - which combine the sales of DVDs, music and games - were up 4% from the same time last year. DVDs were up 1.9%, album sales were down 3.2%, while games, well, games were dragging everyone else's average up, sales 17% higher than in 2007 with a combined 82.8 million titles sold across the UK in 2008. The leap has been mostly attributed to the Wii, though it'd be interesting to see how the PS3 contributed, since Blu-Ray sales were up 358 % from 2007. Wii boosts UK games sales, music resilient [Reuters]