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Would you like a little nudity with your Mario and Sonic Olympic entertainment? GameStop (NYSE: GME) has sparked a bit of controversy this morning for selling a used, E-rated game – Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games – without first checking its contents. The game was sold to the...

It has nothing to do with the iPhone, Android, or Zynga. For the past several years, GameStop (NYSE: GME) has been a star. With rising sales and revenue (even in the face of a withering economy), the company seemed to be impervious. It was, in many ways, the do-no-wrong retailer. Times have...

All with the support of Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix. Yesterday afternoon, GameStop (NYSE: GME) got into a bit of trouble when it was caught opening new copies of Deus Ex: Human Revolution for the PC. According to Ars Technica, GameStop employees were performing this unusual task with a...

Android's social gaming network has grown more than 940% since the beginning of last year. PapayaMobile.com is having a good day. Today it has announced that it has acquired more than 25 million users, attributing its success to the rising demand for mobile social games as well as the growing...

Earnings season is not over yet. Among the companies on deck to report quarterly results this coming week are Deere (NYSE: DE), Smucker (NYSE: SJM) and Estee Lauder (NYSE: EL). Analysts expect Deere's per-share earnings to be more than 13% higher than a year ago. Smucker's earnings are forecast to...

Pay $24.99 now, play free games later. There might have been a time when the prospect of getting to play a game three days before its official release was so tantalizing that I just couldn't pass it up, regardless of the cost. Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) is hoping that I'm not the only one, as...

It's not easy being a big box retailer. While Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), and Target (NYSE: TGT) once ruled the industry, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has quickly stolen the spotlight as the leading place to shop for just about everything. Brian Sozzi, an equity research analyst at Wall...

“We are not optimistic that Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) can gain significant video game market share against leading specialty retailer GameStop (NYSE: GME),” Wedbush wrote in a recent report. “Despite recent initiatives in video games, GameStop continues to gain market share. “We continue to...

Goldman Sachs is out with its report today on GameStop (NYSE: GME), raising its PT from $23 to $26. In a note to clients, Goldman Sachs writes, "We raise our 12-month price target to $26 from $23, to reflect our higher forecast, and a higher relative P/E (65% from 55% previously) in our multiple...

Sterne Agee is out with its report today on GameStop (NYSE: GME), reiterating Buy. In a note to clients, Sterne Agee writes, "We think management has recently made its strongest case yet for the company's future relevance. GME's strength in retail combined with the inroads it's making in digital...

Goldman Sachs is out with its report today on GameStop (NYSE: GME), maintaining Neutral. In a note to clients, Goldman Sachs writes, "We make no changes to our industry forecast or price target given the noise around the Easter shift and the fact that April is one of the smallest months of the...

The earnings season is beginning to wind down for another quarter. That can only mean that it is time for some of our favorite shopping mall and strip mall retailers to step into the earnings spotlight. Kohl's (NYSE: KSS) and Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN) start things off later this week when they report...

Sterne Agee is out with its report today on GameStop (NYSE: GME), raising its PT from $26 to $30. In a note to clients, Sterne Agee writes, "We are raising our 12-month target price on shares of GME from $26 to $30 based on slightly under 10x our CY12 (FY13) EPS estimate of $3.10. This is up from...

Piper Jaffray is out with its report today on GameStop (NYSE: GME), maintaining Underweight. In a note to clients, Piper Jaffray writes, "GameStop reported January quarter financial results in-line with expectations. The company guided FY11 Net Income flat to FY10 - optimistic in our view....

Wedbush has issued a report maintaining Gamestop's (NYSE: GME) Outperform rating. According to Wedbush, "Maintaining our OUTPERFORM rating and our 12-month price target of $26, which reflects a multiple of 8.5x our FY:11 EPS estimate of $3.02. Our multiple is below the company's historical average...