You buy games at GameStop. You buy games hardware at GameStop. You may sometimes even buy a magazine or action figure. Very soon, though, you’ll be able to add something a little unexpected to the list: mobile phone plans
Video game rental service GameFly takes one hell of a shot at video game retailer GameStop in this new commercial.
As much as this sounds like a Red Dead Redemption marketing stunt, it’s a real thing.
I was on the fence about posting this because, I mean, “Black Ops 2 coming out in November”? Stop the presses, that’s like “Call of Duty is coming out this year”-type news. But the game does seem to have a clever codename, unless the codename is actually its title.
Many, many rumours continue to fly around the internet concerning the future of Microsoft and Sony’s game consoles. One of the most contentious and repeated assertions about the next iterations of both the PlayStation and the Xbox is that neither will easily support used, rented or secondhand games.
It’s one of those things you probably never bothered to think about. “GameStop” sounds like something it took three seconds to come up with. But there’s surprisingly a bit more of a story behind the name. Executive Chairman of the company (and also founder and former CEO) Dan DeMatteo has told Reuters that he named the company after an old franchise of…book stores.
