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A GameStop store in 2014. GameStop, an American chain of brick-and-mortar video game stores, had struggled in the years leading up to the short squeeze due to competition from digital distribution services, as well as the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which reduced the number of people who shopped in-person.
Furthermore, 53% of major studios expect difficulties in handling their technical debt. 88% of developers questioned said they are looking into integrating new tools into their workflows due to the steep rise in game production expenses and complexity. [50]
GameStop announced plans on September 10, 2019, to close between 180 and 200 underperforming stores by the end of the fiscal year. [137] GameStop has been affected by a shift in consumer purchasing habits of games, as makers have made it easier to purchase titles online for download, often through consoles, requiring no physical disc. [138]
The small guys won, at least for a while, driving shares of GameStop up more than 1,000% in 2021, and other meme stocks as well. The struggling movie theater chain AMC jumped 2,300% in the same year. But some meme stocks including GameStop and AMC have been climbing higher again, and rapidly.
GameStop's first quarter came in worse than Wall Street had hoped, with revenue of $1.24 billion coming in short of analysts expectations for $1.34 billion. Shares of GameStop fell nearly 20% at ...
GameStop’s cash grab came right before the company reported preliminary financial results this morning, where it disclosed that first-quarter sales were down almost 20% year over year and it has ...
America’s largest party supplier filed for bankruptcy in 2023, hurt by big-box retailer competition, rising costs during the pandemic — and a helium shortage. People shop in a Party City store ...
Until it drew the interest of Redditors on a discussion board called r/WallStreetBets, GameStop was dying a slow death along with brick-and-mortar shopping malls, where the largest video game and ...