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Biggest Crypto Gainers Today on Uniswap – DORK, GME, BEBE
2.2.2024
With blue-chip cryptocurrency markets choppy on Friday following the release of a bumper US jobs reports that saw macro traders pare back on Fed rate cut bets, $DORK, $GME and $BEBE are the biggest crypto gainers today on decentralized exchange Uniswap. Bitcoin (BTC) swung either side of $43,000...
Gamestop’s Cryptocurrency Adventure Pauses: NFT Marketplace Closure Looms
15.1.2024
In an announcement prominently displayed on the Gamestop non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, the company has revealed its intention to shut down the platform on Feb. 2, 2024. This decision means that users of the Gamstop NFT market will lose the ability to “buy, sell, or create NFTs.”...
GameStop Keeps Finding New Ways To Rip People Off
2.11.2023
Things have been bad at retail chain GameStop for a while now but somehow they’re about to get even worse. Employee benefits are on the chopping block heading into next year as the gaming retailer doubles-down on cost-cutting despite holding $1 billion in cash reserves thanks to its earlier meme...
Biggest Crypto Gainers Today on DEXTools – GME, TAIZO, DERP
30.9.2023
Bitcoin (BTC) has dipped back below $27,000, but is still trading in the green for the month and to the north of its 50-Day Moving Average (DMA).
September is usually one of the worst months of the year for Bitcoin, so this is a strong sign heading into October, a month that is typically much...
GameStop's New Billionaire Boss Calls For 'Extreme Frugality' In Email To Staff
29.9.2023
After years of pulling the strings from behind the scenes, GameStop chairman and billionaire Chewy founder Ryan Cohen appointed himself CEO of the ailing video game store on Thursday. His first email to staff, obtained by Kotaku, called for “extreme frugality” and said “time wasters” would not...
GameStop’s Faithful Stock Fans Are Finally Having A Crisis
3.8.2023
NFTs and the blockchain were supposed to take GameStop to the moon. Now the flagging video game retailer is dropping support for its crypto wallet as the Securities and Exchange Commission threatens to crackdown on the burgeoning nexus of finance, tech, and online gambling. It’s the latest...
GameStop fires CEO Matt Furlong months after axing crypto push
8.6.2023
The executive, once instrumental to the company’s NFT efforts, was "terminated" amid lackluster Q1 earnings
GameStock Fires CEO As Meme Stock Plummets
7.6.2023
GameStop has terminated CEO Matt Furlong and announced that meme stock investor and SuperStonk cult-hero, Ryan Cohen, will take over as Executive Chairman. The famous brick-and-mortar gaming retailer’s stock price proceeded to drop over 15 percent in after-hours trading. Read more
GameStop Overhauling Rewards Program, Raising Price By $10
22.5.2023
GameStop’s customer loyalty program is getting a huge makeover in June, according to screenshots of internal corporate training materials shared with Kotaku. The existing PowerUp Rewards membership will see its name changed to GameStop Pro, with the price going up from $15 a year to $25 in exchange...
Entire GameStop Store Quits On Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Release Day
19.5.2023
Nowadays it’s not uncommon to hear of entire GameStop stores quitting en masse as working conditions at the video game retailer continue to deteriorate. It’s rarer to hear of employees resigning the day the biggest game of the year launches. But that’s apparently what happened at a store...
The Steam Card Scams That Keep Some GameStop Employees Up At Night
30.3.2023
Someone walks into a GameStop and asks where the gift cards are. They proceed to buy a bunch of them. Not just $40, or $80, but hundreds of dollars worth of Steam cards, Razer Gold, or some other gaming currency. They don’t look like someone who’s kneed deep in the seedy underworld...
GameStop Blames Its Lower Sales On Lack Of Games
29.3.2023
GameStop may have made a profit in 2022, but sales are still below expectations, particularly in North America. In the company’s full year financial report for 2022, meant for investors but funny to read regardless of who you are, it outlined what it believes to be a significant hurdle: there...
GameStop Employees Say They Have To Sell All Sorts Of Random Weird Junk Now
17.10.2022
Not everyone was happy with GameStop’s transition into a toy store, but there was at least some crossover between toys and gaming. Until now. New inventory just came in for GameStop employees, and some of the stock they’re getting aren’t even toys. Read more
GameStop Stonk Bros Are So Mad About The Netflix Doc Trailer, They’re Rallying To Unsub
20.9.2022
Back in January of 2021 GameStop’s stock price exploded as Reddit trolls went to war with old-school investors after the latter bet on the company failing. Reddit et al called their bluff, and well, it’s now the stuff of documentary films. Speaking of, Netflix just released a new trailer for...
GameStop 9/11 NFT Pulled After Selling Dozens Of Times
25.7.2022
Shortly after GameStop launched its NFT marketplace earlier this month, one creator started selling an NFT called “Falling Man” mimicking the infamous photograph from September 11, 2001. It changed hands dozens of times, eventually fetching hundreds of dollars, until GameStop quietly removed...
Nifty News: GameStop NFT's first day, Limewire trends and game dev attacks!
14.7.2022
Video game developer Mark Venturelli launched a surprise attack on NFTs at a Brazilian gaming event, and Limewire is trending again following its NFT marketplace launch
GameStop Loses Executive, Does More Mass Layoffs Even As Meme Stock Surges
7.7.2022
A ruthless sea change is underway at GameStop. The company’s latest Chief Financial Officer, Mike Recupero, has resigned and another round of mass layoffs is underway at the video game retailer even as its meme stock continues to soar in price. CEO Matt Furlong told staff in an email reviewed...
GameStop’s Meme Stock Is Back With A Vengeance
1.4.2022
People have been waiting for the GameStop bubble to pop for over a year now. Instead, the ailing brick and mortar video game retailer just posted another record week on Wall Street. Earnings are down. Employee morale is in the pits. But the company’s stock went from $78 per share last month to over...
Gamestop Beta NFT Marketplace Launches, Platform Leverages Loopring’s ZK-Rollup Tech
23.3.2022
On Wednesday, the head of growth at Loopring, Adam Browman, announced that the recently teased Gamestop NFT marketplace has launched its beta version using Loopring’s layer two (L2) technology. Browman says that with Gamestop’s new NFT marketplace leveraging Loopring’s...
GameStop looks toward NFT marketplace launch after big Q4 loss
18.3.2022
The firm also highlighted that the Immutable X NFT marketplace deal is set to fetch the firm $150 million worth of IMX tokens upon the “achievement of certain milestones.”