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GameStop Icon “Roaring Kitty” Posts For the First Time Since 2021 – Are These 5 Meme Coins the Next GME Stock?
13.5.2024
Iconic retail stock trader/investor “Roaring Kitty”, who rose to fame during the 2021 meme stock surge, just posted on X for the first time since 2021, igniting a surge in excitement that a new meme stock/meme coin trading season could be inbound, and with traders feverishly hunting for meme coins...
Roaring Kitty Returns: Solana Meme Coin Skyrockets, Another Dog-Coin Primed to Explode Next?
13.5.2024
Roaring Kitty, the pseudonym of the trader who gained fame for his role in the GameStop short squeeze of 2021, is back, and so is the rise in GME’s stock price. As if revisiting the start of 2021, markets have turned bullish with the return of this retail investor icon. Responding swiftly...
GameStop's Meme Stock Explodes Again After YouTuber Roaring Kitty Returns
13.5.2024
It’s been three years since GameStop’s stock originally exploded during the pandemic as big-time investors capitalized on an internet feud between deep-pocketed hedge funds and very online Redditors. Now the meme stock is back for round two after Roaring Kitty, AKA Deep Fucking Value, AKA Keith...
GameStop Wants You To Start Trading In Your Valuable Pokémon Cards
10.5.2024
The market for high-end collectibles like rare Pokémon cards has exploded in recent years, and GameStop seems to want a piece of it. The gaming retailer told some store managers this week that it would begin testing buying Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) graded trading cards later this...
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