Entertainment and technology store CEX consistently offers the best trade-in value for games, both in cash and store credit, according to consumer rights group Which?.

Using Just Cause 2, Red Dead Redemption and Call of Duty: Black Ops for its investigation, Which? found that CEX offered better or equal value in cash and in-store credit than ASDA, Blockbuster, GAME, Gamestation, HMV and Tesco.

With a growing number of retailers now operating in the used game market, Which? said that Tesco and ASDA offered "competitive" prices, "in most cases outbidding more established game stores such as Gamestation and GAME".

Interestingly, the group also found that new games can lose as much value in percentage terms in just three days as a car would over three years.

"Call of Duty: Black Ops, released just three days prior to our research and originally bought brand new, lost as much as 70% of its original value when presented to stores that buy pre-owned games," Which? said.

Pre-owned software accounted for a quarter of GAME's sales in 2010.

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I'd sooner sell them myself, usually...

GAME's business practices are disgusting; you usually obtain a saving of just £5 for buying pre-owned instead of new, which is pathetic.

A quick check on Amazon is almost universally worth it.

That is a brutal write off. Personally I only buy games that I want to play again and again. Happily the amnesia means that I get to play a new game every week, even if I have played it for months!

I bought Halo Reach at Tesco for the equivalent of £28 (I had to buy 2100 MS points but I needed them anyway) and CEX gave me £30 for it a month down the line.