Another handy Power Up Rewards e-mail from GameStop arrived in my inbox today. A game that you can download to your 3DS without going into a store is "exclusively at GameStop." GameStop isn't even selling it for an exclusive price. Does anyone in gaming use the word exclusive correctly?

Executives in cages. Dog food on the face. Cliff Bleszinski eating noodles.

According to this poster, beginning June 1, GameStop will no longer accept any PlayStation 2, nor any PS2 game, nor its accessories.

A poster that's turned up online today, seemingly showing the title and main character of the next Assassin's Creed game, appears to have two sides.

Meet Meloetta. She's special.

Each week it feels like the video game industry is coming up with new ways to get you to pre-order games. Packaged bonuses, collectors' edition cases, limited edition figures, in-game items, early access to betas, and more.

Battlefield 4 has yet to be properly, publicly announced. We know it's coming, because it's a sure bet EA will make more Battlefield games and because people already know they're in beta, but nobody has seen the game in action or knows anything about it.

Retail is a tough racket. It's no easy gig. Sometimes, it's boring. Sometimes, it exhausting. And sometimes, it's completely bonkers.