retail
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Did You Know GameStop Is Named After A Book Store?
4It’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…
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My First PS Vita Game, Courtesy Of Walmart
Just because the PS Vita isn’t out for another 10 days in North America doesn’t mean you can’t start picking up your launch games in advance. This poor little guy looked so out of place in Walmart’s PlayStation section I just had to take him home.
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Wii-Owning President Obama Doesn’t Care If The Xbox Version Is Better
Somewhere inside the Beltway today, copies of Just Dance 3 for the Wii and The Sims Plus Pets rode in a presidential caravan with the nuclear football. That, gang, is core game cred.
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EB Games/GameStop Gets Rid Of Used Games Section
An employee of Canada’s EB Games (read: GameStop) has let us know that, in one of the company’s shittier moves in recent years, the distinction between “new” and “used” games is apparently going to be all but removed.