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As the biggest game retailer in the US, GameStop has strongly opposed the idea of downloadable content, as it should have, since it's its natural enemy. Despite the support of the concept from both developers and publishers, GameStop has stood firm in its decision to stay clear of the DLCs. Well, not anymore. It... |
13 November 2009
06:49 GMT |
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The fact that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 copies were out on the street before the official November 10 release date is neither a surprise, nor is it news. Just yesterday, we saw the title being pirated and redistributed, with one game snatcher even arrested for the crime. But, to see that Modern Warfare 2 is bein... |
10 November 2009
05:59 GMT |
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Modern Warfare 2 arrives on November 10 and GameStop is one of the companies set to benefit a lot from the launch. The brick and mortar retailer, which has been threatened by the development of digital distribution services, needs this king of big releases to get people in the store and to consolidate its position in... |
5 November 2009
05:10 GMT |
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The first news reports that ever came to light about Super Street Fighter 4 were those according to which the game would be a standalone product, and not downloadable content or some addon. The second thing that Capcom promised was that the title wouldn't be priced as a full game. The first solid lead in these p... |
19 October 2009
04:56 GMT |
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Just a few days ago we looked at the lawsuit Gamefly is currently fighting against the United States Postal Service regarding preferential sorting treatment. Apparently, some post offices have special mail slots for Netflix and Blockbuster, which would reduce the chances that a product will be damaged during transit,... |
19 October 2009
03:44 GMT |
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It seems that the used videogames market is beginning to be more and more attractive to big retailer chains that are not necessarily specialized in titles for the current gaming consoles.After Amazon began accepting used games and re-selling them and after chains like Toys'R'Us and Best Buy entered the mark... |
12 October 2009
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After almost a year since the original launch of the game in Japan for the PlayStation 3, Way of the Samurai 3 will be coming to America. The publishers of the US version of the game, UFO and Agetec, are putting together something special for those who will preorder the title. Along with GameStop, the eager ones will... |
5 October 2009
04:39 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 has received several other controllers along the years, besides the standard black and white models. Now, it looks like a brand-new set of clothes will come for the device. Appearing only in the GameStop schedule, Microsoft seems to be preparing a red and black controller for the Xbox, expected to become... |
23 September 2009
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GameStop has attracted many gamers’ antipathy. Some don't like it because it makes so much money on used games and because of the way it pushes blockbuster games to customers.Most big videogame publishers do not like it because it makes huge profits from used games sales, even though the industry benefits ... |
28 August 2009
12:51 GMT |
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A while ago, a couple of big retailers, Best Buy among them, and even Internet-based Amazon announced that they planned to enter the used game business dominated by the videogame-oriented GameStop.Now, Best Buy seems to be ready to make a big move, with some stores running a promotion that promises players new games ... |
11 August 2009
03:56 GMT |
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Assassin's Creed 2 is one of the big releases of this fall not pushed back into 2010 and Ubisoft seems to be ready to respect the original release date of November 17. The latest proof is its having released, via the Twitter feed for the game, details related to a Limited Edition version of the videogame, which ... |
5 August 2009
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It's hard to dispute the domination of GameStop when it comes to videogames retailing in the United States. For both new titles and used games, retail chain stores are the place to go to and even as gamers are complaining about the level of service of the employees and the prices offered for used games, GameStop... |
3 August 2009
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For quite some time, videogame industry figures have said that Steam and other digital distribution platforms were set to eat up market share from traditional retailers and that a trade war was brewing between the two camps.It appears that rather than hurting sales of boxed copies of videogames, digital delivery is a... |
6 July 2009
16:11 GMT |
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The gaming industry is constantly evolving, especially in the sales business, where large retail and online stores make shifts in their strategy from time to time. One of the most infamous practices is GameStop's policy on used games and how it allows players to exchange titles for store credits, which can be u... |
30 June 2009
11:11 GMT |
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Ubisoft, which is developing and planning to publish Assassin's Creed 2, has announced having entered into an exclusive agreement with GameStop for a special pre-order offer related to the upcoming title.Those gamers who place a pre-order with the retail chain will get a new in game area, which aims to faithfull... |
24 June 2009
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GameStop has been making news lately but mostly for all the wrong reasons. Earlier in the year, it released Stardock and Big Huge Games' Demigod before the official date, leading to extended piracy of the title and to problems from those engaging in multiplayer.On Friday, the retailer also broke the street date ... |
23 June 2009
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It seems that those who love Fallout 3 and can't wait for the next bit of downloadable content for it, called Point Lookout, can now get it at GameStop, even if the official release date is only next week.The retail chain has been selling a disk containing both the upcoming DLC and the already released Broken St... |
19 June 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Madden NFL 10 is set to be one of the biggest videogame releases of the year and the publisher needs to make sure that all interested players have a chance to see what the game is all about before committing their money to a purchase.This can only be done through a demo of the game, and EA Sports has announced that i... |
18 June 2009
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Apparently, in Florida, stores are now required to get the prints of all those who are interested in picking up a used videogame. Such a measure sends the idea that gamers are criminals and buying and selling DVDs is basically the same as getting a gun. The measure seems to be coming from the legislature of the state... |
3 June 2009
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You can count on GameStop to break news stories related to videogaming by simply publishing a price listing on its website. This time, the fact that came under scrutiny is the price that the big retail chain has attached to the new Tony Hawk game, called Ride. Apparently, the title, which is being sold together with ... |
28 May 2009
03:47 GMT |
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It's nice to know that although the videogames industry is geared towards secrecy, concerning release dates, title information, new developments, future consoles, there are times when secrets slip out via the most mundane documents and events. For example, David W. Carlson, one of the executives working for Game... |
27 May 2009
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Price cuts have been the central point for a lot of rumors, especially since the economic recession has had a big say in just how much money people can spend on items these days, making them a relatively mandatory solution for keeping sales up. The gaming industry is now filled with voices that call for both the Pla... |
26 May 2009
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Wal-Mart has announced that it has begun lending space in its stores to a third-party company, called E-Play, which runs automated kiosks for the purpose of implementing 77 “Video Game Buyback” stations. Only 2% of the stores that Wal-Mart operates in the United States will get a kiosk as part of a pilot ... |
20 May 2009
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Prototype is one of this summer's most anticipated titles, promising to deliver a massive open-world game in which gamers will play as Alex Mercer, a normal everyday man who, due to an unfortunate turn of events, now has mutant superpowers and must escape an Army-filled New York by using his powers against them ... |
7 May 2009
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Hello and welcome to another edition of A Gamer's Week, your roundup of the most important things that happened in the industry these past few days. It's been a pretty busy week as the NPD sales charts arrived at the end of it, but don't think that before Friday things weren't already pretty hecti... |
18 April 2009
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This week was set to witness the release of Demigod, quite an interesting title created by Gas Powered Games and published by Stardock. The game has both a retail version and a digital distribution version. It focuses on multiplayer, with the network infrastructure and the match making services crucial for a good exp... |
18 April 2009
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After a long period in beta, Gas Powered Games' Demigod was released this week. Unfortunately, the game is now experiencing quite a few issues. Some players are reporting that they cannot connect to the multiplayer servers while others are saying that the matchmaking is not working properly, pairing up new playe... |
16 April 2009
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Game distribution is a big business, with major retail chains holding the key to titles reaching the average gamer. Even though digital distribution has caught on, with services like Steam or Direct2Drive being very popular, this doesn't worry companies like GameStop or Target. Now, the CEO of GameStop, Dan DeM... |
16 April 2009
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GameStop has broken the street date for Demigod, a game published by Stardock and created by Gas Powered Games. This means that the title was set to be simultaneously released via Impulse and in stores, but players were able to get it earlier in brick-and-mortar stores. It's a highly unusual move from GameStop a... |
15 April 2009
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If GameStop numbers are any indication, then the Nintendo DSi, which is set to arrive shortly in North America, will be one big seller, possibly on a scale not seen since the release of the Nintendo Wii.Bob McKenzie, who is the vice president for marketing at GameStop, has talked to Venture Beat and told it that &ldq... |
24 March 2009
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Let's do a little recap: GameStop has been reporting very good financial results, in part as a consequence of the used games business that it sustains and being the only big retailer on the market; Toys R Us begins a test run in New York stores, trading in videogames for in game credit; Best Buy is also reported... |
10 March 2009
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People know that some big shift is about to happen when more than one big company seems to be heading down the same road. We've talked a few days ago about the limited trial run that Toys R Us, the biggest retailer of kids material in the United States, is making in New York in relation to allowing customers to ... |
6 March 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Has anyone noticed how much we have been talking about used games lately? Our favorite story related to the subject is the news that there's a fresh charity, named quite simply Donate Games, which aims to get used games from players and sell them in order to get the money needed to support patients suffering fro... |
4 March 2009
04:22 GMT |
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One of the biggest debates raging at the moment in the gaming world is that regarding the importance of sales of used games. A big chain store like GameStop and many gamers insist that there's nothing wrong with selling a game that you have grown tired of playing. After all, it means that someone else can enjoy ... |
25 February 2009
03:35 GMT |
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Take Two has lashed out again at the concept of a second hand market, saying that it has a negative impact on the sales of new titles. GameStop, the biggest brick and mortar chain of shops which buys and then re-sells videogames, has been singled out by the publisher. Doug Creutz, who is an analyst of the videogame m... |
3 February 2009
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Industry analysts are saying that for GameStop, the used games sales revenue will reach 23% of the overall value of the business, up to a value of 2 million dollars. In the previous year, the percent value was similar, at 22.4%, but the value was of only 1.6 million dollars.The used game market accounted for 42% of t... |
23 January 2009
03:38 GMT |
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Spore might be getting a new expansion in March next year. Listings from both Gamestop and Amazon regarding pre-orders reveal that a videogame called Spore: Galactic Adventures will arrive on March 17, costing 29.99 dollars. Pre-order listings have been known to be wrong at times, listing bad release dates or prices ... |
29 December 2008
05:34 GMT |
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The game distribution business is a very profitable one, as a lot of customers are buying games because they offer the best form of entertainment at a reasonable price, which is why a lot of gaming companies, like Microsoft or Blizzard, are claiming that they will keep this industry safe from the effects of the finan... |
5 December 2008
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One of the main reasons given for the wave of downloadable content which is assaulting the videogaming industry is that publishers are trying to make sure that gamers hang on to their releases and do not re-sell them to specialized retailers like GameStop. There are some voices saying that there's a regular &ldq... |
2 December 2008
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The game industry is definitely changing as the times move forward. One of the biggest changes in terms of game distribution is the appearance of online stores, owned by game publishers, like Valve, or console producers, like Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo, which offer players the very easy opportunity of downloading th... |
27 November 2008
02:19 GMT |
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So, are you thinking about waiting for a few months to see how the Wii Speak service shapes up, and then going into a GameStop to pick up a used headset in order to chat with your friends on your Nintendo Wii? Well, think again, because it seems that Nintendo is keen on making sure that it sells one headset to each o... |
14 November 2008
04:07 GMT |
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Call of Duty: World At War will certainly be a very interesting game. Set to be the first CoD title developed by other studio than the creators of the first four titles, Infinity Ward, the Treyarch developed shooter will have its action placed, yet again, in the Second World War. The studio is trying to get the hype ... |
27 October 2008
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Fable II is really going to be an innovative title which will give players a wide variety of choices, each and every one of them having an impact on the character of the gamers. Peter Molyneux, the lead creative designer behind the game, already expressed the fact that the title would leave a big impression on every ... |
21 October 2008
03:08 GMT |
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GameStop is one of the biggest gaming related chains of stores out there. They really have some interesting services but the most talked about is the buy-back one. Essentially, you can come with an old game you own and, in exchange, the store will buy it from you. Although many have argued that the money offered by ... |
2 October 2008
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On the one hand, we are pushing for bigger and bigger disks like the Blu-ray, designed to contain the ever increased gaming content developers pack into today's titles, on the other hand, companies say that digital distribution, aka pushing content through the Internet, will quickly become more important than th... |
22 August 2008
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When does something become "official"? Usually, when the company in charge of the product talks to the public and the press and confirms what people have been talking about for some time. Well, when it comes to Microsoft, things don't generally work this way. The software giant tends to play upon rumors, first i... |
11 July 2008
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There's proof that the 20 GB version of the Xbox 360 console might be ready to depart from stores, being replaced by a 60 GB version of the gaming device. Apparently, an e-mail addressed by Microsoft to GameStop and BlockBuster was leaked; it details the way the new console will be introduced.Here is what the e-... |
10 July 2008
03:51 GMT |
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The MI6 game marketing conference is known for the way it presents relevant issues to the game industry from a clear business perspective. This year, the focus is on the way the used game is becoming somewhat of an important business element for the videogame industry. According to a report of the consultancy and res... |
9 April 2008
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GameStop, one of the biggest distributors of games hardware and software, has released, together with its financial results for the first quarter of 2008, a few predictions regarding the future of the console war, especially regarding the way prices will behave in the next few months.Company Chief Operating Officer D... |
19 March 2008
10:03 GMT |
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The Wii has again started to play hard-to-get with customers, so Nintendo and GameStop's management implemented this rain check program for people who buy an out-of-stock Wii after December 20th, 2007. Basically, you'll receive a "rain check" certificate, guaranteeing you'll have a Wii on your hands be... |
17 December 2007
06:56 GMT |
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