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Most Nintendo 3DS games will cost around $39.99, according to GameStop's new pre-order list, but some might also cost as much as $49.99, the same as a title for the Nintendo Wii.
The Nintendo 3DS is set to be one of the most anticipated portable game consoles of the year, so GameStop is already taking in pre-... |
24 January 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Large games retailer GameStop has just revealed that the possibility of extending its used business to downloadable content is possible, but that it won't happen anytime soon.
Seeing as how digital distribution is becoming more and more popular, and with publishers like EA saying that it will overtake the tra... |
11 January 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Nintendo, as the developer and publisher, and The Pokemon Company, as the holder of the intellectual property, have announced that they have teamed up with specialist retail chain GameStop to deliver a special character based offer for those who are fans of the franchise and are interested in the new Pokemon Black an... |
4 January 2011
05:42 GMT |
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Nintendo has just announced that it will be holding a special promotion with GameStop and EB Games, which will offer free Shiny versions of special Pokemon in preparation of the upcoming launch of Pokemon Black and White.
In what will certainly motivate dedicated Pokemon gamers to get out of their houses after the... |
29 December 2010
15:51 GMT |
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Specialist retailer GameStop has said that both recently launched motion tracking systems, the Kinect from Microsoft and the PlayStation Move from Sony, are bringing in a lot of new customers, who might not have been interested in gaming until now, and will continue to sell well despite the fact that stores might tem... |
22 November 2010
13:31 GMT |
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A representative of the specialist retail chain GameStop has said that the launch of the PlayStation Move from Sony and the Kinect from Microsoft is bringing in new customers into the game stores and is creating a new segment of players that are more interested in social and family games than in blockbuster shooters ... |
11 November 2010
03:09 GMT |
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Microsoft's new Kinect peripheral for the Xbox 360 will go on to outsell Sony's new PlayStation move peripheral for its PlayStation 3, at least according to GameStop senio vice president of merchandising and marketing, Bob McKenzie.The upcoming holiday season will be a fierce battle ground for Sony and Micr... |
10 November 2010
17:21 GMT |
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It seems that Call of Duty: Black Ops is enough of a reason to commit armed robbery, as two thieves with semiautomatic weapons held up a local GameStop store and stole 100 copies of Call of Duty: Black Ops.Activision's upcoming shooter, Call of Duty: Black Ops, is set to be one of the best selling games of all t... |
8 November 2010
17:21 GMT |
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The largest American video game retailer, GameStop, has revealed that the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops has already beaten its predecessor, the record-breaking Modern Warfare 2, in terms of pre-orders, setting a new all-time record in the process.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 went on to become the world's mo... |
11 October 2010
02:56 GMT |
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GameStop, one of the biggest sources for video games sales in the United States, has announced that it has entered into an agreement with the military that will see no sales or advertising for the upcoming Medal of Honor take place near army bases because of the sensitive nature of the events depicted in the new firs... |
3 September 2010
06:06 GMT |
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During the Electronic Entertainment Expo in June, Ubisoft announced that the Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood multiplayer beta would take place only on the PlayStation 3. More details about this recently have been made available by the company. Apparently, only North American customers who pre-order the PlayStation... |
6 August 2010
03:34 GMT |
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GameStop, one of the biggest retail chains specializing in the sale of video games, has announced that it is buying Kongregate, a gaming community built around social and indie projects that are playable through an Internet browser. All the titles are free to play and the content is delivered via Flash. The company s... |
29 July 2010
02:57 GMT |
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We know that Kinect, Microsoft’s motion controller, will be launched on November 4 in North America but the company that makes the Xbox 360 is not yet ready to talk about the pricing options for the new peripheral. With the launch date less than 6 months away, retailers are stepping into the void and showing th... |
18 June 2010
03:58 GMT |
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GameStop, the biggest videogame specialist retailer, seems to be ready to replace the paid Edge card linked to its rewards program with a new initiative, called PowerUp Rewards, which, at the time, is tested in Ohio, Missouri and Tennessee.An inside source has indicated that the new program will be launched country w... |
26 May 2010
02:01 GMT |
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Retail giant Walmart has announced that it is launching a new online destination called Gamecenter, which will focus on offering players significant sales promotions and low shipping fees for standard options.The site will have quite a bit of content apart from the actual storefront, hosting video previews for big la... |
25 May 2010
03:40 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is satisfied with its Ten Dollar Project and will introduce the Online Pass, which will charge used game buyers 10 dollars in order to allow them access to the multiplayer features of EA Sports titles. Ubisoft is watching from the margins and doing something similar. But despite all the heat coming do... |
24 May 2010
02:04 GMT |
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Daniel DeMatteo, Gamestop's CEO, has announced record sales after the first fiscal quarter of 2010. The retailer's earnings grew 5.1 percent to a staggering 2.08 million dollars that amounts to a 6.8 percent year to year rise of profits for the company. This first quarter, for example, has brought 75.2 mil... |
21 May 2010
14:21 GMT |
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It seems that Blizzard and GameStop are making the StarCraft II beta a bit more open. All those who are interested in picking up the game and place a preorder with the retail chain will be getting a code that can then be used on Battle.net to grant them access to the beta stage. Those who are interested can choose be... |
22 April 2010
16:51 GMT |
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James Collins, a player in Hayward, California, has filed a lawsuit against retail chain GameStop claiming that the company is “deceptively misleading” all its customers by making it seem like buying a used game will grant access to all the DLC released for the game, when this is not always the case.Colli... |
1 April 2010
16:31 GMT |
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2009 was not a very good year for videogames, with overall sales down and only price cuts making gaming consoles an interesting buying proposition for players. Yet GameStop, the retail chain best known for its used game deals, managed to do well, seeing sales going up by 3.1% to reach 9.08 billion dollars, although o... |
23 March 2010
04:17 GMT |
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Last week, over 22 large online retailers, including GameStop, have been subpoenaed by the New York State Attorney General's office, concerning credit-card information sharing with third-party companies. According to a news release made by the office of Andrew Cuomo, New York's Attorney General, the practic... |
5 February 2010
04:14 GMT |
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It seems that the North American console versions of the upcoming Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will come packaged with an unusual new restriction. Only those players who have preordered the videogame at the GameStop retail chain will be able, for the first month, to engage in the fresh Squad Rush multiplayer game mode.... |
4 February 2010
05:56 GMT |
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The concept of DLC might not go very well with the idea of physical distribution, but that doesn't mean that the giant video-game retailers are backing away from the concept. If anything, GameStop, one of the biggest physical distributors, believes that it has to educate the public regarding the extra bonuses th... |
1 February 2010
03:40 GMT |
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2009 was by no means a good year for videogames. After the industry basically declared itself “recession proof,” it faced a decline over 2008 during most of the months. The fall was steeper when it came to hardware, especially in terms of revenue, mainly after Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo all brought down... |
6 January 2010
13:01 GMT |
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Rockstar Games has announced that it is partnering up with GameStop, one of the biggest retail chains for videogames, in order to offer an exclusive pre-order bonus for those who are interested in getting Red Dead Redemption, the Wild West open world shooter set to arrive in 2010. Rockstar is trying to prove its dedi... |
9 December 2009
16:21 GMT |
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It seems that retail giant Wal Mart is pushing hard for a solid foothold in the videogaming space by cutting prices on a selection of big titles and by offering a special deal on the Nintendo Wii. The deals are part of its regular Christmas promotions, which also target products like holiday food, electronics and toy... |
3 December 2009
13:01 GMT |
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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
04:43 GMT |
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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
12:01 GMT |
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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
05:35 GMT |
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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
14:21 GMT |
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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
05:40 GMT |
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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
02:35 GMT |
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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
17:01 GMT |
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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
05:15 GMT |
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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
04:43 GMT |
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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
02:40 GMT |
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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
03:16 GMT |
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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
11:01 GMT |
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