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This article was originally published on March 12, 2021.With GameStop’s stock exploding and shrinking on a weekly basis, it’s easy to forget that until recently, it was an open question whether the next-gen of gaming consoles were going to come with an optical drive at all. Physical games managed to avoid the grim reaper, for now, but little care is put into their packaging these days. A whole generation missed out on a time when you could walk into a Babbages and an encyclopedia-sized PC game box practically leapt into…

Spring may be just around the corner, but it’s still cold and rainy in many parts of the US. If you’re looking for ways to keep yourself entertained while indoors, GameStop is currently taking up to 50 percent off select titles as a part of its ”OMG” sale. The ongoing promotion includes steep 50 percent discounts on newer hits like Persona 5 Tactica for the PlayStation 5 ($29.99) and Sonic Superstars ($29.99) for the PS4. The deluxe edition of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, which comes with a handful of in-game items, is also…

Share price of GameStop stock over January and February 2021. Credit: Yahoo Finance Three years ago, the stock price of the company GameStop soared over 1,625% in just a week. While it's been speculated the primary cause was unprecedented, organized action among Reddit users using a trading strategy known as a "short squeeze," researchers have now definitively shown a causal relationship between activity on Reddit and the wild…

Image: NetflixThere’s just something about Psyduck that’s always been so relatable. Once a scene-stealing side character in Pokémon’s animated ‘90s series—along with being one of the original 151 pocket monsters—the adorable yellow duck with quirky psychic abilities powered by headaches and anxiety finally got center stage in Netflix’s Pokémon Concierge. Recently the hit streaming show was given a second season order, which promises more Psyduck fun. In the meantime fans have to tide themselves over until the series…

Beware the apes, Reddit told the world in its IPO documents, though not in such explicit terms. Put simply, the company warned potential investors that one of its subreddits, the infamous r/WallStreetBets, could make its stock price and volume extremely volatile—and there’s little Reddit can do about it.Robinhood App Lays Off 9% of StaffReddit listed r/WallStreetBets as one of the possible risks to investing in the company in its S-1 form on Thursday, referencing the subreddit’s role in the meme stock craze of 2021, where…

Photo: charles taylor / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock)Google’s testing a new feature called “Talk to a Live Representative” that will contact businesses for you, navigate their phone trees, wait on hold, and then call you when a real human being is ready to chat. It could solve one of the more frustrating parts of dealing with corporations, and it brings us one step closer to a world where we all have our own weird little personal robots that to talk each other on our behalf. Apple Unveils Its iPhone 15 and Apple Watch…

If the recent launch of Apple Vision Pro has piqued your interest in VR (but you're not excited about dropping $3,500), consider checking out PSVR 2. The unit is tailor-made for PS5, offering 4K HDR visuals, impressive motion tracking, and two Sense controllers to help you navigate its games and software. Typically sold for $550, GameStop is now carrying refurbished headsets for just $400--one of the lowest prices we've seen since it released last year.…

Two months after shutting down its crypto wallet, GameStop says it’s killing its NFT marketplace, too. In an alert posted on the website, first spotted by , the company has notified customers that the NFT marketplace will no longer be usable as of February 2. Echoing the statement it issued with the termination of the wallet, GameStop says the decision comes in response to “the continuing regulatory uncertainty of the crypto space.”GameStop’s NFT marketplace wasn’t around very long. It launched in July 2022 in a…

Image: HasbroEarlier this year, after much waiting, Hasbro finally released a No Way Home inspired three-pack of Spider-Men that gave fans plastic takes on Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, and Tobey Maguire... at least, with their masks on. But this fall a new standalone wave of Marvel Legends returned to the movie and did it justice. The updated releases are all pretty fun (the Green Goblin and his glider is a highlight), but the stars of the show are the new Peters. In Holland’s case, a new unmasked head is paired with the…

Bethesda Softworks/GameStop/id Software/ZDNETNo, you're not seeing things. And it's definitely not a typo. GameStop really is offering Doom Eternal Deluxe Editionmember, and you have to choose same-day delivery. (Oh no, you get to play a cool game that much faster! The horror!) The digital code is also exclusively for the Bethesda launcher, but for 98 cents, I'd be willing to forsake Steam, too.The deluxe edition not only gets you the base game, but you'll also get a DLC season pass, an unlockable Demon Slayer…