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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.
The GameStop short squeeze, starting in January 2021, was a short squeeze occurring on shares of GameStop, [18] [19] primarily triggered by the Reddit forum WallStreetBets. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] This squeeze led to the share price reaching an all-time intraday high of US$483 on January 28, 2021 on the NYSE .
Business Insider described GameStop's investment in Spring Mobile as a failure, with estimates that the company spent $1.5 billion on acquisitions on Spring Mobile and store locations, but only gained $700 million from the sale of Spring Mobile to Prime Communications in 2018, leaving them $800 million in debt.
Game Informer (GI) [a] was an American monthly video game magazine featuring articles, news, strategy, and reviews of video games and game consoles.It debuted in August 1991, when the video game retailer FuncoLand started publishing an in-house newsletter.
A GameStop store in a mall. In September 2019, Gill, under the username "u/DeepFuckingValue", posted on the subreddit r/wallstreetbets a screenshot of a trade consisting of a roughly $53,000 long position in GameStop; [8] Gill's Reddit posts and YouTube videos argued (through both fundamental and technical analysis) that the stock was undervalued. [3]
Impulse was a digital distribution and multiplayer platform. Originally developed by Stardock to succeed Stardock Central, it was purchased by GameStop in March 2011, [2] [3] and was subsequently rebranded as GameStop PC Downloads, with the client being renamed GameStop App. [4]
$20.7 million [4] [5] Dumb Money is a 2023 American biographical comedy-drama film , directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo. It is based on the 2021 book The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich and chronicles the GameStop short squeeze of January 2021.
EB Games (formerly known as Electronics Boutique, EBX, and EB World) was an American computer and video games retailer. First established as an American company in 1977 by James Kim [1] with a single electronics-focused location in the King of Prussia mall near Philadelphia, the company later grew into an international corporation.