GAME closing 35 stores by Holiday 2013

GAME made headlines yesterday when they admitting that the UK videogame retailer couldn’t stock “everything”, not selling, among other games, the UbiSoft lineup for the launched PlayStation Vita handheld console. Now, the company has announced that it would be closing 35 stores in the UK by Holiday 2013, and will be closing its online site Gameplay.co.uk.

GameStation.co.uk will honor preorders and all future orders from Gameplay.

”So that all of our customers can enjoy the benefits of the new online platform that we launched last year, Gameplay customers will be served through Gamestation.co.uk from March 1st 2012, including customer support for their purchases. All new orders will be directed through gamestation.co.uk from that date. We’re talking to our customers who access our online community through Gameplay about this today, and look forward to welcoming them to the growing community at gamestation.co.uk,” was the statement issued by a GAME spokesperson.

It remains to be seen whether those 35 stores will be the only stores closed by the videogame retail chain.