Dominant video game retailer GameStop has purchased two companies as it continues to try to establish itself as a place where gamers will go to play and download games online. The company has picked up online game streaming firm Spawn Labs and has separately purchased game download site Impulse from…

Video game retailer GameStop is partnering with News Corp.‘s IGN in its latest attempt to expand its website beyond e-commerce. Under a two-year agreement the two companies reached earlier this week, IGN will license content from its network of sites to GameStop. GameStop had already been running some ads on…

Retail chain GameStop is acquiring Kongregate, the San Francisco, CA-based game community, as the company looks for ways to expand its online presence. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close next week, were not disclosed.

This time last year, GameStop was riding high on holiday sales that were up 22 percent year-over-year. Not so for the start of 2010. The game retailer said 2009 holiday sales reached $2.86 billion—meaning no growth vs. 2008. And while it said new stores showed strong performance, same-store sales slumped…

Gamestop, the offline games retail giant, is finally moving into digital in a much bigger way: just last week it announced the launch of an online casual games store, and now, it has appointed Chris Petrovic, former VP of digital at Playboy (NYSE: PLA), as its new GM of digital…

Retailers like *Best Buy* and *Amazon* know that GameStop is raking in roughly $2 billion a year from used games sales, which is why they want in on the market. Now new stats from Wedbush Morgan quantify how many units that actually breaks down to: 100 million games, or a…

News that *Best Buy* planned on getting into the $2 billion used video game business leaked a few months ago, but details on how the retailer’s program would work—and whether it really stood a chance of competing with GameStop’s—weren’t clear. CMO Barry Judge revealed today that Best Buy is going…

GameStop has been the only major player in the used video game business for at least five years—but that all changed in 2009. In Q1 alone, *Best Buy*, *Amazon* and Toys R Us have staked their claim to a piece of what has become a billion-dollar industry, and now *Wal-mart*…

Consumers spent nearly $9 billion on new and used games, consoles and accessories at GameStop last year, so, when CEO Dan DeMatteo talks potential best-sellers (and flops, for that matter), people listen. DeMatteo and GameStop COO Paul Raines gave CNBC.com the rundown on what games and consoles will be hot—or…

GameStop brought in about $2 billion in revenue from used-game sales last year, but those numbers will be far lower this year if *Amazon*, *Best Buy* and Toys R Us have their way. Last week, the three retailers staked claims to their own slices of the market by launching used-games…