High street retail chain with 240 UK sites to shut major shopping centre store as closing down sale launched

A MAJOR video game retail chain is closing one of its popular stores in coming months.

GAME, inside Trafford Centre, is set to close down in June.

With 240 sites across the UK, the British retailer is known to sell PlayStation, XBox, and Nintendo , as well as board games and PCs.

Signs have been put up around the store warning shoppers of the closure and ‘all stock must go', the Manchester Evening News reports.

A Trafford Centre spokesperson said: “We’re always working hard to bring new and exciting brands to Trafford Centre, offering our visitors the best possible experience”.

“We're currently in discussion with a number of retailers and will be in a position to announce which brand will be going in the former GAME store in due course”.

The mall has received various transformations in recent months, including a new multi-million pound food court labelled the ‘Eastern Gardens', as well as a revamped area known as ‘China Town'.

Trafford Centre director, Simon Layton, told the Manchester Evening News: “We wanted to retain that magic with some of the new brands we're now bringing into the centre”, describing its ‘grandeur' and ‘opulance' as ‘very unique'.

Shoppers, however, won't need to go far to continue going to GAME as another store has opened across the bridge inside a new Sport Direct which opened in the Trafford Palazzo.

The new Sports Direct store spreads 30,000 sq ft over two floors, with areas for sports, men, women and kids, and GAME taking a small section of that space.

It includes top sports and leisure brands like Nike, Adidas, Puma, Under Armour, New Balance, ASICS, Sketchers and Jordans.

Frasers Group PLC, which owns GAME, will also integrate another one of its brands USC into the store.

Other well-known Frasers Group brands include Slazenger, Everlast, Evans Cycles, Jack Wills and USA Pro.

This scaling down of the GAME store in Manchester follows the closure of another GAME in , which had a major closing down sale last month.

Another is also closing down around the UK in the middle of the year.