Play.com was once viewed as a serious competitor to Amazon, and even launched its own video games expo - Play.com Live - at Wembley Stadium in 2008.
But some disappointing results saw Play struggle to attract investment and the company was sold to Japanese retail specialist Rakuten in 2011 for £25m. The website no-longer sold products directly and instead became a marketplace for other retailers to utilise.
But as of today, Play.com doesn’t even exist as that, and anyone that visits that website will be directed to Rakuten.co.uk instead.
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Sam is joined by Kyle and Sterling of the PLAY team to chat about the undead in video games. Can the genre be innovated and is VR the next step? The trio also discuss the COD zombies phenomenon this week on PLAYCast.
As more and more gamers look for convenience and great deals online physical game sales are in decline and with GameStop relying on these sales they are taking a major hit with its current business model, however, they have apparently started to test out a concept in Oklahoma as they envision a future to meet and play.
If they were serious about making a come back they should pay more for trade ins and sell them used games for cheaper .
