GameStop
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GameStop Corp. is an American video game, consumer electronics, and gaming merchandise retailer, headquartered in Grapevine, Texas (a suburb of Dallas–Fort Worth). The brand is the largest video game retailer worldwide. , the company operated 3,203 stores including 2,325 both in the United States, 193 in Canada (the Canadian operations were sold in May 2025), 374 in Australia and 311 in Europe under the GameStop, EB Games, Micromania-Zing, ThinkGeek and Zing Pop Culture brands. The company was founded in Dallas in 1984 as '''Babbage's''' and took on its current name in 1999.
Key facts
- Company.name
- GameStop Corp.
- Company.logo
- GameStop Logo.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 250px
- Company.logo_caption
- Logo used since 2021
- Company.former_name
- Babbage's (1984–1999)
- Company.type
- Public
- Company.industry
- Retail
- Company.hq_location_city
- Grapevine, Texas
- Company.hq_location_country
- U.S.
- Company.num_locations
- 3,203 (February 2025)
- Company.key_people
- Ryan Cohen (chairman and CEO)
- Company.revenue
- (2024)
- Company.operating_income
- US-$26 million (2024)
- Company.net_income
- US$131.3 million (2024)
- Company.assets
- US$5.87 billion (2024)
- Company.equity
- US$5.46 billion (2024)
- Company.num_employees
- 8,000 full-time; part-time (Feb 2024)
- Company.parent
- NeoStar Retail Group (1994–1996)Babbage's Etc. (1996–1999)Barnes & Noble (1999–2004)
via Wikipedia infobox
Company
- State of incorporation
- MN
- Entity type
- other
- Fiscal year end
- Jan 31
- Latest filing
- S-4 · 2006-04-26
via SEC EDGAR
Official website
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Encyclopedic overview
42 sectionsContents
- History
- Babbage's (1984–1994)
- NeoStar Retail Group (1994–1996)
- Babbage's Etc. (1996–1999)
- Barnes & Noble Booksellers (1999–2004)
- Expansion (2004–2016)
- Acquisitions
- Brand expansion
- European expansion and stagnation
- Management changes
- Decline (2016–2024)
- Changes in market conditions
- Financial losses
- Management changes
- Turnaround efforts
- American division efforts
- Australian division efforts
- COVID-19 pandemic
- American division pandemic response
- Canadian division pandemic response
- Australian division pandemic response
- European decline
- January 2021 short squeeze
- Other news in 2021 to 2025
- NFT platform
- Business operations
- Atrix
- ''Game Informer''
- Trade-ins
- GameStop TV
- Pre-order bonuses
- GameTrust Games
- Controversies
- Lawsuit against BCG
- Nintendo Switch 2 launch day incident
- Corporate affairs
- Finances
- Store numbers
- Subsidiaries
- See also
- References
- External links
GameStop Corp. is an American video game, consumer electronics, and gaming merchandise retailer, headquartered in Grapevine, Texas (a suburb of Dallas–Fort Worth). The brand is the largest video game retailer worldwide. , the company operated 3,203 stores including 2,325 both in the United States, 193 in Canada (the Canadian operations were sold in May 2025), 374 in Australia and 311 in Europe under the GameStop, EB Games, Micromania-Zing, ThinkGeek and Zing Pop Culture brands. The company was founded in Dallas in 1984 as '''Babbage's''' and took on its current name in 1999.
The company's performance declined during the mid-to-late 2010s due to the shift of video game sales to online shopping and failed investments by GameStop in smartphone retail. In 2021, after retail investors on Reddit noticed that the short interest exceeded 100%, the company's stock price skyrocketed from $17.25 to over US$500 per share. According to the SEC report, this volatility was only in part due to the massive buying power of retail investors. The company received significant media attention during January and February 2021 due to the volatility of its stock price in the GameStop short squeeze; the company was ranked 577th on the Fortune 500. GameStop also used to own and publish the video game magazine Game Informer before discontinuing it in August 2024 and selling it to Gunzilla Games in 2025.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “GameStop” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.