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EB Games bids goodbye

The signs have come down at many of the few remaining EB Games stores last week. Those stores have been rebranded as GameStop stores, the company that purchased EB Games in 2005. Gamers everywhere should prepare to bid a final farewell to EB Games, as the store we know and love appears to be in it's final days.

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Phantom_Lee6796d ago

is it only in US? or all NA?

InMyOpinion6796d ago

EB Games is worldwide, that means outside the US as well. We have them in Sweden too.

23478ueyur_9382236795d ago

In Canada, we have only EB Games and no GameStops. Is GameStop finally taking over here?

poet2156795d ago

EB had a great return policy. You could purchase a brand new game, & return it within 7 days for a full refund. Funco Land always had some crazy prices going on. Me personally, I was always partial to Software Etc & EB. I guess since they had lots of PC stuff available, those stores seemed to be more upscale than other stores.

Azures6796d ago

w/e the only thing different up to now has been the name, the stores became the same thing years ago.

ReBurn6796d ago

Electronics Boutique. I bought my SNES from an Electronics Boutique.

Whoooop6796d ago (Edited 6796d ago )

I remember a video game store called Electronic Boutique. I don't know what relation that store had with this one or if that's what it stands for...

EDIT: haha damn, you f@kers are quick.

jack who6796d ago

so when the law sue gona start coming?when they the only place you can buy games?they all ready 96%..

DeFFeR6796d ago

the "law sue" isn't coming at all. GameStop and EB make up a nice chunk, but nothing close to 96%. Best Buy, Circuit City, Wal-Mart, SamsClub, BJ's, COSTCO, Target, K-Mart, CompUSA, ComputerCitY, Babbages, Toys R Us, KB Toys, Sears, Blockbuster, GameCrazy, Amazon.com all have a nice share of the market. And those are just stores around where I live, there are probably plenty more.

And i'm also pretty sure that I'm forgetting a couple.

WilliamRLBaker6796d ago (Edited 6796d ago )

Babbages owned by gamestop
and the rest you mention sucked compared to gamestop and EBgames when it came to selling used or rare games.

Infact Bestbuy,Target,Wal-mart, Circuit city,Sams Club BJs, Costco, k-mart,Compusa,Computer City,Toys R Us, KB toys, Sears, Blockbuster, Gamecrazy all have nearly no used games section, or have no used game section at all, Sams club has a crap for game section with usually only 20 titles across all systems *My local sams club and I mean 20 titles as in thats all they carry*

When it comes to a game specific store where all they sell is video games, video game accessries...ect Gamestop now owns something like 95% of the market.

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44% of games industry professionals have considered leaving the industry as a result of redundancies

New report from Skillsearch found that 22% of those surveyed had been laid off within the past 12 months.

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Cockney13d ago

Well if that 44% left im sure there would be a lot less redundancies

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Stop Killing Games on the latest European Commission public hearing

It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.

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"Be creative 99% of the time" – Glen Schofield on how creativity can help fix AAA industry woes

The Callisto Protocol director thinks the solution involves the right people, the right timing, and perhaps a little bit of AI

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lodossrage15d ago

I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise

We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.

Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.

Scissorman14d ago

it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.

__y2jb13d ago

This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.