GameStop is about to launch a trade in and sales test program for retro games in Birmingham and New York City. Later this year gamers will be able to trade in their NES, Super NES, Sega Genesis, PlayStation, N64, and Sega Dreamcast systems at roughly 250 locations, retro games will be purchased only through the company’s website and the web in store system they have.

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Perpetrators of online abuse will now face tougher sentencing thanks to new legislation passed in the UK. Justice Secretary Chris Grayling made the statement

“This is a law to combat cruelty, and marks our determination to take a stand against a baying cyber-mob We must send out a clear message: if you troll you risk being behind bars for two years.”

The major changes include

 “with the intention of causing distress or anxiety,” or, “which convey an indecent or grossly offensive message or are themselves of an indecent or grossly offensive nature.”

Anyone if found guilty of the above will now face a maximum sentence of two years, instead of six months.

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2K Australia has closed it’s doors. 2K Games cites the reasons for the closure of the Canberra subsidiary 2K Australia was stating that the costs of operating a game studio in Australia was too high. 2K was Australia’s only AAA developer. 2K Australia worked on titles such as Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, and most notably the Bioshock Series.

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