I can't say I will miss Game. It has always been a bit bland and overly corporate to me.
To be honest I have never forgiven them for replacing Electronics Boutique, a favourite of my childhood 
Actually EB took over Game, not the other way around. They rebranded themselves as Game in the process.
I used to like EB because it was cheap (something that hasn't continued), but Game was generally a much better shop, and had a bit of character. You'd walk in and there would be loud music blaring out. The Amiga section would be an entire wall of full price titles, then you'd look behind and find the smaller boxes of budget re-releases and accessories. In the middle of the shop, there would be an A1200 on a table with Sensible Soccer or something running. One year there was a Sensible Soccer tournament, an old friend of mine got through to the semi-finals and was a minor celebrity in the local Game for weeks afterwards! There's nothing like that anymore, Game is just overpriced and (as you say) bland. There's no reason to go in, other than to look at game boxes to then buy off Amazon later.
I'm hoping that somebody buys them, and makes them back into a decent shop like they were in the early 90s. Pricing games much closer to online prices would be a big step forward for starters.
