There are dark days ahead for video game retailers. Wal-Mart’s holiday sales fell short of expectations, but at least they hung on to post a 1.6% gain on last year’s December numbers. Best Buy watched its Entertainment Software (including our pride and joy, video games) sales decline by 12.2%. With the worst holiday shopping season since 1970 behind us, how did GameStop, the world’s largest video game and entertainment software retailer, manage a 22.3% increase over last year’s sales?
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Imagine, if you will, a world in which you’re on the plane ride home to visit family for the holidays and suddenly you realize that your Laptop, DS, or PSP’s batteries have been completely drained and you forgot the charger back in your apartment. A world of terror and fright, as now, you are back home, with not a gaming system in sight. What is there to do without your beloved games? Fear not, for there are alternative solutions to the mind-numbing boredom you may face.

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Every Christmas in Gamerland, there’s always the hot new console or game title that is a must-have both here in the States and around the globe. As tech and gaming have grown exponentially over the past decade, there seems to be more and more frenzy surrounding gaming during the holiday season. Recent numbers posted by Hitwise (a company that monitors internet traffic) have shown that Wii Fit is far and away the most searched-for title online during this year’s holiday lead-up in the UK.  In contrast to last year, the Wii console was the front-runner.

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