GameStop has started rolling out a TV ad this week informing us of their latest ploy to get you to spend cash at their stores. And I like what the ad has to say (for once). From now until March 14th you’ll get an extra 50% on every trade-in you bring to their store. Use [Continue]
Retailers Walmart and Best Buy launched pilot programs last year to test game kiosks in some of their stores. Walmart tested the kiosks in almost eighty of their stores while Best Buy tip toed into the market with only two. Both retailers were trying to find a cost effective way to take a bite out [Continue]
GameStop started the preorder bonus voting today for Rockstar Games’ upcoming title Red Dead Redemption. The voting will reveal which bonus outfit will be unlocked for those who preorder the game. Each outfit comes with a character skill boost in their area of expertise to help you along the way. Hit the jump to find [Continue]
Microsoft and Turn 10 have announced that Forza Motorsport 3 will be making it’s way to North American store shelves on October 27. And to sweeten the deal for hardcore fans they’ve teamed up with GameStop (who else) and revealed the details of the Limited Collector’s Edition of the game. The Limited Collector’s Edition [Continue]
The recent news that Best Buy is tossing it’s hat into the used game market hasn’t phased the game retailer Gamestop a bit.During a shareholders meeting on Tueday they explained why the Best Buy and Wal Mart kiosks won’t take away their business anytime soon. “GameStop understands that trading in used games and consoles is [Continue]
The last time GameStop chimed in about digital distribution they told us that they didn’t think digital distribution would be a major factor in the gaming market until 2020. Now that’s changed with GameStop saying they have “conducted the most thorough study to date” on the matter. According to their new findings only 25% [Continue]
GameStop released their sales figres for Q1 of 2009 and there were some surprising figures buried in all of the numbers. A telling sign of the tough financial times people are facing was GameStop’s used game sales, which jumped by a whopping 31.9%. A clear indicator that gamers are still willing to pay for games, they [Continue]
How many Gamestop stores are there worldwide you ask? Well, nosey reader I’ll tell you. There are 6,200 around the globe. Sound like a lot? That’s because it is. And Gamestop likes it that way. Gamasutra did the math, and in a recent report they found that Gamestop controls around 21% of the game market in [Continue]
