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Xbox 360 price drop from Friday in Ireland

Microsoft have revealed an expected Xbox 360 price drop for Europe today, in Ireland the entry-level console will have an estimated retail price €199.99 from this Friday, March 14.

Xbox 360: Low impact on GameStop chart

- Nintendo DS appears the most on retail's chart
- Follows Xbox low ranking on Chart-Track game chart

Microsoft's Xbox 360 console only appears once across two weeks of top-10 charts from retailer GameStop Ireland.

Star follows Sun's lead on games in prisons

- More sensationalism on games consoles in Irish prisons two years later

The Irish Daily Star has followed the Irish edition of the Sun to sensationally link PlayStation access in Irish prisons to an individual criminal on their cover page.

Xbox 360 HD player with free films

- Free films offer open in Ireland until end of January

Buyers of the of the Xbox 360 HD-DVD player in Ireland will be offered the chance to redeem five free films for the add-on.

The Xbox 360 player (pictured right with the games console) retails at around €170, while the offer runs until January 31, 2008.

GameStop expands with news shops in Finglas, Gorey, Castlebar, and Limerick

Games retailer GameStop is continuing to expand on its Irish locations with new stores recently opened in Finglas, Gorey, and Castlebar, while Limerick is to get a third store.

GameStop Ireland will have 50 shops under its control by the end of the month, including two in the UK.

The retailer has massively expanded since the US games giant bought up and re-branded independent Irish retailer GamesWorld in 2003. In the last two years alone, it has nearly doubled the number of locations in the Republic and the North.

Its parent company runs 5,000 stores across Europe, the US, and South America.