Gamertell

What? Video game sales are down? That hasn’t stopped Texas-based GameStop from posting big profits. The Dallas Morning News reports that the retailer pulled in $1.83 billion for the quarter ending October 31, 2009. That was an 8.3% increase over the same period in 2008. Those are impressive numbers in… Continue Reading »

The Black Friday ad for Gamestop has been leaked and it has some pretty nice deals. For example you could buy a 120GB PS3 Slim with LittleBigPlanet GOTY Edition and God of War Collection for $299. If the Xbox 360 is more your flavor Gamestop is selling a Xbox 360… Continue Reading »

A week after GameStop’s corporate office authorized some of its stores to break street date on Modern Warfare 2, three New Jersey stores have done the same with Assassin’s Creed II and Left 4 Dead II. The much-anticipated sequels went on sale there November 14, 2009. The actual street date… Continue Reading »

With the recent trend of video game companies offering complements and add-ons for games, digital downloads are becoming an increasingly lucrative market. As with other entertainment properties, more and more video game companies are shifting parts of their businesses to creating and delivering this form of content. The ability to… Continue Reading »

Street date, schmeet date. It should probably not come as a surprise that some retailers decided to break the November 10, 2009, street date on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The events that transpired afterward are definitely worth noting, though. GameStop contacted COD publisher Activision regarding retailers breaking the… Continue Reading »

Square Enix has just announced the preorder offers for Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers, which seems appropriate since the game will be out December 26, 2009. Like most companies, there isn’t going to be one set preorder deal. Depending on where you order your copy of the game,… Continue Reading »

Preorder items quite often determine where someone will actually pick up a certain game. When it comes to the forthcoming Wii on-rails shooter Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles, players have a choice. They can go with the ever-so cool, but slightly impractical, zombie face t-shirt preorder that is only available at… Continue Reading »

One of the downsides of using a mail rental service for games, movies, etc. is the number of middlepeople involved. Between the shipping facility, the post office and the mail carrier there are a number of places a game can get damaged, lost or outright stolen. That’s what former Postal… Continue Reading »

In a move drawing a lot of industry attention, GameStop director Leonard Riggio has sold 2.3 million shares of the company’s stock. He earned $60.2 million from the sale and reduced his ownership in the game retail company from 6.9 percent to 5.5 percent. The timing seems odd as the… Continue Reading »

Gamers that have been trading in games to GameStop, Blockbuster and similar stores will be pleasantly surprised at some of the deals Toys ‘R’ Us is offering in its rookie year of game trading. A $60 game purchase commonly garners between $20 and 25 in trade credit if one were… Continue Reading »