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11.13.2009 9:00 am

GameStop proposes selling DLCs

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Ever wonder what the brick-and-mortar game retailers will do when downloads start to dominate sales?

You can guess what’ll happen in the long run, but GameStop intends to try delaying the inevitable by selling downloadable content directly through its stores, the…

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11.09.2009 6:23 pm

Midnight madness tonight for ‘Modern Warfare 2′

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Tonight at midnight, GameStop stores across metro St. Louis will be open for early sales of “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2,” the highly anticipated modern tale of an anti-terrorist task force battling ultra-nationalist baddies.

With that, the chain is sponsoring a…

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09.30.2009 10:13 am

GameStop sponsors ‘Halo 3: ODST’ tournament

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

As if “Halo 3: ODST” didn’t have enough hype attached to it, now comes more courtesy of GameStop.

The game retailer launches a three-round national “ODST” tournament starting Friday at 2,200 stores nationwide, with $5,000 in prize money destined for the winner’s…

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08.20.2009 10:18 pm

GameStop hosts ‘Batman: Arkham Asylum’ early release events

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Retailer GameStop plans to tear the wrapper off the new “Batman: Arkham Asylum” game a few minutes early.

The chain announced it will sponsor launch events in most of its stores nationwide starting at midnight Monday. “Arkham Asylum” officially debuts Tuesday for PlayStation…

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08.13.2009 9:52 am

‘Marvel vs. Capcom 2′ migrates to PlayStation Network

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

If you’re a “Marvel vs. Capcom 2″ fan who has waited patiently for the durable fighting title to show up for PlayStation 3, you can let your patience run out. Then pick it back up and hurry to the PlayStation Network…

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07.26.2009 8:00 am

Free games for Wii available today at GameStop

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sure the economy’s bad and kills your motivation for buying video games. That’s why you’ve got through today only to visit the nearest GameStop and pick up a free Wii game with purchase of a Wii console.

The titles available through this…

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07.06.2009 11:49 pm

GameStop sponsoring “Fight Night Round 4″ tournament

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Put up yer dukes — GameStop is challenging you to a fight.

The video game retail chain announced today it plans to have a “Fight Night Round 4″ in-store boxing tournament starting this weekend at 2,100 of its locations around the country.

Contestants…

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06.11.2009 10:34 pm

Video game sales figures will continue to fall

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Any question whether video gaming is surviving the recession can be answered by a visit to your local game store.

There, at a glance, you’ll see used titles outnumbering new ones two to one, as consumers start to prefer pinching pennies…

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04.08.2009 10:47 am

Mystery of the amazing magazine circulation increase is solved

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A few days ago, Game Guy posted an item on what appeared to be a jaw-slackening surge in circulation last year for Game Informer, the popular gaming magazine published and distributed by GameStop Corp.

Our interest was piqued when the media monitor…

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04.02.2009 11:20 am

Game Informer selling like hot coffee. Or is it?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

You’ve seen Game Informer magazine, right? The one stacked high by the register at every GameStop?

Reports online have that magazine ranked among the top 12 U.S. consumer magazines in terms of circulation this year, just above such titles as TV Guide and…

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