GAMEfest 2011 Offers UK Consumers Opportunity to Get Hands-On With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
The UK’s ultimate celebration of gaming, held at the Birmingham NEC on 16-18th September, will give fans a sneak peek nearly two months ahead of its worldwide release date on 8th November.
LONDON – 11 August, 2011 - GAME, the UK’s leading game retailer, today announces that GAMEfest 2011 will offer fans the first UK hands-on preview of the most hotly anticipated game of the year, Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3.
The UK’s ultimate celebration of gaming, held at the Birmingham NEC on 16-18th September, will give fans a sneak peek nearly two months ahead of its worldwide release date on 8th November.
Anna-Marie Mason, marketing director at GAME said: “We are delighted that GAMEfest attendees can be the first consumers in the UK to have the opportunity to get hands-on with Modern Warfare 3® before it releases to the world. We know that our customers love to be first to play and with this year’s sneak peek of the newest instalment of Call of Duty®, GAMEfest once again proves it is absolutely the place to be.”
Tickets are available at www.game.co.uk/gamefest. To buy tickets, would-be attendees need to own a GAME reward card. If they do not currently own one, they can go to www.game.co.uk or to any GAME store to sign up and then go to the website to buy the tickets.
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About GAME:
GAME is part of GAME Group plc, Europe's leading retailer of pc and video games, video game consoles and related accessories. We operate from over 1,000 GAME stores, concessions and franchises in the UK, Eire, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Portugal, France and Australia. Together with our on-line and multi channel shopping services, our aim is to be the destination of choice for every consumer.
Call of Duty, Modern Warfare and Activision are registered trademarks of Activision Publishing, Inc. All other trademarks and trade names are the properties of their respective owners.
The UK’s ultimate celebration of gaming, held at the Birmingham NEC on 16-18th September, will give fans a sneak peek nearly two months ahead of its worldwide release date on 8th November.
Anna-Marie Mason, marketing director at GAME said: “We are delighted that GAMEfest attendees can be the first consumers in the UK to have the opportunity to get hands-on with Modern Warfare 3® before it releases to the world. We know that our customers love to be first to play and with this year’s sneak peek of the newest instalment of Call of Duty®, GAMEfest once again proves it is absolutely the place to be.”
Tickets are available at www.game.co.uk/gamefest. To buy tickets, would-be attendees need to own a GAME reward card. If they do not currently own one, they can go to www.game.co.uk or to any GAME store to sign up and then go to the website to buy the tickets.
-ENDS-
About GAME:
GAME is part of GAME Group plc, Europe's leading retailer of pc and video games, video game consoles and related accessories. We operate from over 1,000 GAME stores, concessions and franchises in the UK, Eire, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Portugal, France and Australia. Together with our on-line and multi channel shopping services, our aim is to be the destination of choice for every consumer.
Call of Duty, Modern Warfare and Activision are registered trademarks of Activision Publishing, Inc. All other trademarks and trade names are the properties of their respective owners.