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The company revealed in an interim management statement that titles such as Fifa 10 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 both broke sales records during their first week of release.
However, it also noted that transactions of hardware continued to be low and posted a 13.9 per cent fall in like-for-like sales over the course of the period.
As a result, its shares were down in the morning session of stock market trading, dropping 13.6 per cent to 124.90p at 10:16 GMT.
Despite the fall, chairman Peter Lewis was upbeat, stating that Game has increased its market share over the course of the 12-month period so far.
He also predicted a busy remaining eight weeks for Game, as these "historically represent around 25 per cent of [the company's] annual turnover".
Posted by Greg Secker
