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GameStop President Steve Morgan Resigns

GameStop managers today received an email from CEO Dick Fontaine, informing them that President Steve Morgan would be resigning from the company. Morgan was previously Electronic Boutique's President of Stores-North America and President-Electronics Boutique Canada, appointed to the position of GameStop president during the merger in 2005. The following is paraphrased from said official email, the gist being confirmed by several GameStop managers via telephone conversation.

After 7 productive years with GameStop, Steve Morgan has made the decision to reapply his energy and drive outside out GameStop Steve will officially be leaving the company on May 2nd 2008. Steve has stated from the very first day we discussed his position with our merged company that his goal was to head up a company as a CEO. After two and half very successful years as our President he now feels that the time is right to pursue his objective.

Awww Steve. Follow those dreams. No word on who will be replacing Steve, though I'm sure we'll hear more once GameStop officially announces the resignation.

5:20 PM on Thu Apr 17 2008
By Mike Fahey
2,570 views, 58 comments

Latest by freespeech: oh yeah, I forgot about electronic boutique. that was another fine store gamestop crapped up!!!!!!! more »

eb games

EBGames Try For Teh GTAIV Funnies

Yes, yes, GameStop/EB Games are a cold, soulless, ruthless international corporation. But sometimes, just sometimes, someone gets into their system with a little spark. A sense of what it is to be truly human. That person's started writing up the site's legal disclaimers regarding pre-orders, with their GTAIV notice warning customers they can't be held accountable for their "delivery driver's truck getting stolen". Or, if you've ordered MGS4, any possible "inclement weather or Octocamo malfunctions". Not necessarily funny, just...unexpectedly cute.
[thanks Jason!]

9:40 PM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Luke Plunkett
52,522 views, 70 comments

Latest by SubKamran: I go to Gamestop when I need a game right away, no wait. Otherwise, I use my membership discounts and rewards on Gamefly to get my games. Sure, I get the latest games a bit later, but I pay less more »

buyer beware

Some Guitar Hero Bundles Lack The Bundle

Apparently some Guitar Hero III bundles are missing the game. As reported by our sister site The Consumerist, an EB Games employee looked on as his manager opened every Xbox 360 GH3 bundle box they had following a customer complaint, finding that none of them had the game inside. More »

1:20 PM on Mon Nov 19 2007
By Mark Wilson
9,310 views, 65 comments

ads

EBGames Certainly Pitches The DS In An Odd Way

"Fun for the whole family." "Nintendo's popular handheld." "Your mom can play Brain Age on it." These are all acceptable descriptions of the Nintendo DS. EBGames of Canada, however, went a different route with their sales pitch

London, 2038. According to to legend...

This is gonna be good, hit the jump for the big, fully readable screengrab. More »

12:40 PM on Thu Nov 15 2007
By Mark Wilson
19,605 views, 74 comments

Latest by frickinharlem3: Wait a minute. What's wrong with that description? That's more or less what I tell my friends that are curious about the system. more »

online only

Mass Effect LE Available Online Only Through EB/GameStop

If you were hoping to waltz into your local EB/GameStop on November 20 and pick up a Mass Effect Limited Edition, it looks like you're out of luck. According to the game retailer's website, the Limited edition will only be available as an online purchase. And I quote: More »

5:00 PM on Sat Oct 20 2007
By fdemarco
13,993 views, 81 comments

meet n' greet

Hob Nob With Castlevania Producer Koji Igarashi

If you live in the Los Angleles area and are fan of the Castlevania series, there is golden opportunity for you to spend some quality time with Castlevania producer Koji Igarashi. To promote the launch of Castlevania X, on the PSP, Mr. Igarashi will be appearing at the Universal City Walk EB Games on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007 from 6:00-8:00 P.M. He will be signing autographs and posing for photographs with fans and hopefully he'll be wearing the jaunty hat shown in the photo. More »

10:00 AM on Sat Sep 8 2007
By fdemarco
2,360 views, 20 comments

Latest by Torokun: It was awesome. more »

as usual, dave got left out

Rumor: Alvin and the Consoles

Good gravy. As if it wasn't bad enough these fools had a Saturday morning timeslot growing up and every year around Christmas time we have to listen to that annoying song ("Last Christmas" by Wham, of course), now there's talk that these squeaky rodents might have a game coming out. EB Games has listings for Alvin and the Chipmunks for Nintendo DS, Wii, PS2, and PC in their database which could mean disaster for anyone's unprotected ear drums. I'm sure there are still some chipmunks fans out there roaming the earth, but it's time to let it go. More »

1:40 PM on Thu Jun 28 2007
By Kim Phu
1,272 views, 32 comments

Latest by Satyric_saint: This is simple (as with everything) If you dont like it, don't watch/play/listen to it. Durh! more »

pre-order blues

Pushing Pre-Orders: A Dissection

The BBPS has a great two part article called Exposed: The Ugly Truth Behind Pre-Order Pushing that is quite a good read. Author Xav de Matos managed several EBs and has quite a lot to say, good and bad, about the corporate process and the thinking behind it. More »

1:00 PM on Sun Jun 10 2007
By fdemarco
4,325 views, 41 comments

gamestop

Gamestop Reactivates PS3 Trade In Deal

An anonymous Gamestop tipster has informed us that Gamestop/EB is revisiting their PS3 trade in deal that was available for a short time a few months ago. With your trade in of a fully functioning PS2 with cables and controller, a second Sony PS2 controller and an 8mb Sony PS2 memory card, you will receive $100 dollars off your purchase of a PS3. As the 20 gig Ps3's are no longer readily available (and apparently will no longer be available at all), your trade in will most likely have to go towards the 60 gig version. More »

5:00 PM on Sat Mar 31 2007
By fdemarco
8,973 views, 49 comments

Latest by system11: Some people have absolutely no concept of depreciation. Even in mint condition a used PS2 is a USED PS2. It's only then worth what someone will pay for it. Of course, even a used PS2 is 20x more fun more »

hidden treasures

Digging Up Hidden Treasures At Your Local Game Store

Often times it's very easy to find fault with corporate owned game stores. The main complaint with these places usually seem to be their admittedly terrible trade in values and their sometimes inability to fill pre-orders. But, there is a flip side to the coin as well. It's not uncommon that you'll turn up that game you've been looking for forever at a pretty reasonable price. Or you might find a game that you got rid of a while ago and wished you hadn't. And sometimes, if you're really lucky, you'll stumble across a game you didn't even realize you wanted, but the price makes it impossible to turn down. More »

5:00 PM on Sun Feb 25 2007
By fdemarco
8,122 views, 71 comments

Latest by Desfunk: Where i work, we had about 6 copies each of Donkey Konga and Jungle Beat for $19.99 (canadian) new. I've been meaning to snag one just for the extra set of bongos, since i already own more »

eb games

Canadians Get An EB Site To Call Their Own

Sometime in the last few weeks, Gamestop has snuck in put up an EBGames.com website for our brothers and sisters in the fair land Canada. Formerly, Canadians wishing to order from the online retailer had to do their purchasing form the U.S. website and unfortunately, they still have to. More »

5:00 PM on Sun Feb 18 2007
By fdemarco
1,113 views, 21 comments

burger king

EB Games Prices Are Insane

While the prices you find on the used shelves at EB Games and GameStop generally follow no logical pattern whatsoever other than the whimsy of a man in an office somewhere who was never played a video game in his life, this one is just ridiculous. It's bad enough some of us paid $3.99 for the Burger King games, especially now that they've dropped down to $.99. Now EB comes along and wants to charge double original retail price for a used copy of Pocketbike Racer?

Does this make sense to anyone? Did a conversation with someone in head office end with, "Look, I'm busy...just pick a price, dammit!"? Kind of makes you wonder how much they trade the games in for though, doesn't it? Michael Fahey More »

11:40 AM on Mon Feb 5 2007
By Mike Fahey
2,569 views, 55 comments

Latest by manjikengo: Aw, people who don't know how the economy works are cute! The United States is a capitalist nation people. more »

murder

EB Clerk Murdered

A San Antonio EB Games Clerk ws found dead in the store Monday afternoon, police there said. More »

6:52 AM on Tue Jan 30 2007
By Brian Crecente
1,736 views, 65 comments

ps3

EB/Gamestop Offers $100 PS2 Trade-In Credit

EB/Gamestop is offering a hundred dollars credit towards any PS3 system with the trade in of your old PS2. Surprisingly, unlike most EB/Gamestop deals, you are not required to trade in any games, but you must have all of the following items; A working PS2 system including all appropriate cords and controller, a second PS2 controller and any brand 8mb PS2 memory card. The offer is good through Feb. 18. More »

1:00 PM on Sun Jan 14 2007
By fdemarco
14,768 views, 40 comments

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