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Footnotes / references[ 1 ] GameStop Corp. is an American video game, consumer electronics, and gaming merchandise retailer. [ 1 ] The company is headquartered in Grapevine, Texas (a suburb of Dallas), and is the largest video game retailer worldwide. [ 2 ]
Fandom [a] (formerly known as Wikicities and Wikia [b]) is a wiki hosting service that hosts wikis mainly on entertainment topics (i.e., video games, TV series, movies, entertainers, etc.). [9] The privately held , for-profit Delaware company was founded in October 2004 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley.
Blockbuster (retailer) Blockbuster[5] (formerly called Blockbuster Video) was an American multimedia brand and former rental store chain. The business was founded by David Cook in 1985 as a single home video rental shop, but later became a public store chain featuring video game rentals, DVD-by-mail, streaming, video on demand, and cinema ...
The video game retail company is turning some of its stores into "GameStop Retro" locations, selling older consoles and games for old school players. In the X announcement Tuesday, the company ...
Businessman Harold "Matt" Matson and the husband-and-wife duo of Elliot and Ruth Handler founded Mattel as Mattel Creations in January 1945 in a garage in Los Angeles. [15] [16] The company name chosen is a portmanteau of the surname of Matson and first name of Elliot, with former chairman and CEO Bob Eckert revealing at a 2013 Christmas Day Peninsula Seniors lecture that the founders ...
Lionsgate Interactive Ventures and Games is the video game development division of Lionsgate. [81] It was founded in April 2014 and is headed by Nerdist Industries co-founder Peter Levin. This division is dedicated to producing and distributing multiplatform games based on Lionsgate franchises, and investing in digital businesses.
An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive networked narrative that uses the real world as a platform and employs transmedia storytelling to deliver a story that may be altered by players' ideas or actions. The form is defined by intense player involvement with a story that takes place in real time and evolves according to players ...
FYE (retailer) 2428392, Inc., doing business as FYE (an initialism of For Your Entertainment), is an American chain of entertainment retail stores headquartered in Albany, New York. Formerly owned by Trans World Entertainment, [2] it began in 1993 [3] and was expanded in 2001, 2006, and again in 2009 after buying out and rebranding mall -based ...