Game Crazy, a now-defunct minor player in the US games retail space, operated for around a decade, kicking off in 1999 and winding down in 2010. Those involved with the chain, a subsidiary of Movie Gallery, will tell you it’s because increased competition squeezed it out of the market.
Game Crazy went belly-up earlier this year, removing one more retail alternative to GameStop from American shopping centres. The sell-off of its remaining stock is on hold while two liquidators battle over who’s bidding the most for it.
Bizarre Creations’ combat-racer Blur is coming May 25, and your choice of preorder locations determines which ride you’ll get early access to in online multiplayer, because everyone loves retailer-exclusive preorder bonuses, right?
When it quietly went online for pre-launch testing early last year, Glyde was a reseller marketplace built with a mid-western, middle-aged book or music lover in mind. Then the gamers found it and practically took over.
As part of parent company Movie Gallery, Inc’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganisation, video game retailer Game Crazy stores are dropping like flies, with only 250 stores remaining open in the US once the smoke clears.
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Speaking to IGN, Game Crazy’s director of used games, Mark Mondhaschen, said the company did a study for “a very large vendor” and found that credit from trade-ins covered 20 percent of their sales over four weeks.