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| So You Want to be a Rock 'n' Roll Star |
| December 14, 2007 at 5:49pm |
GameStop associates (l-r) Kelly on bass, Jinho on drums, Adam on vocals and Kisha on lead guitar.
About 40 years ago the Byrds told us in song, "So you want to be a
rock 'n' roll star; then listen now to what we say. Just get an
electric guitar, and take some time, and learn how to play." If the
band were to record that song today, they may have
substituted "Rock Band Bundle" for "electric guitar" because
Rock
Band is the modern way to experience the hard-rockin' lifestyle of some of
the biggest musicians of all time.
The Rock Band Shortcut to Stardom Tour Van made a stop at the GameStop Store Support
Center Thursday, and many of our associates were given the chance
to show off their rock-and-roll chops.
After a lunch-break of rockin', our associates decided to keep their
day jobs at GameStop, which is the third-happiest place on earth,
behind Walt Disney World® and Luby's® Cafeterias. But it was fun
to be a rock star for a little while.
Of course, if you don't want to wait for the tour bus to show up at
your house, you can always order your own copy of Rock Band here.
While you're visiting our product-info pages, check out some of our customer reviews, like
one from Anonymouswaffle, who said his mom used to give him a
hard time about video games, but Rock Band has the whole family joining in on the fun now.
And The Singer said, "Rock Band would be great for
a group of friends, a family or, best of all, parties." Better
stock up on the Funyuns®. You can let everyone know what you think
about Rock Band by leaving your own review on our web site. |
| An Idea Whose Time has Come: State Video Games |
| December 13, 2007 at 10:45am |
Having an official state video game would make state seals more appealing, as well.
Here at the GameStop Store Support Center in Grapevine, Texas, a
friendly debate broke out over whether or not Texas has an official
state fish. A quick perusal of the Official State of Texas web site
revealed that, not only does Texas have a state fish, (the Gaudalupe
Bass) but Texas also has a state flying mammal (the Mexican
Free-tailed Bat) and a state dinosaur (Pleurocoelus.)
Because everything around here centers around games, we started to
wonder why states don't have official video games. They have state
birds, flowers, insects, songs and even pastries, but no state has an official video game.
Birds seem to get most of the attention, but video games are much
more fun and don't spread West Nile Virus. Plus, it appears that the
states may not have put forward much effort in picking their state
birds. Seventeen states share the Cardinal, Meadowlark or
Mockingbird as their official state bird. We
think the remaining 33 states just gave up after they found out that
those three were taken, and they just used names of pro wrestlers.
We feel it is our patriotic duty to at least start a preliminary list of
potential state video games.
Florida: Brain Age 2 This brain-sharpener might keep seniors in this popular retirement destination
from driving 20 in the fast lane.
Montana: Hannah Montana: Spotlight World Tour They must be related.
Vermont: Dancing With the Stars Vermont
easily has the best dancers of all the states.
Washington: Super Mario Galaxy Although Mario sounds Italian, we have it on good authority that he was born in Redmond, Washington.
Arkansas: Imagine Fashion Designer The perfect game for the birthplace of jorts.
Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho and Kansas: Tetris Evolution It's a little known fact that all the blocks in Tetris are based on the shapes of these states.
This is just a start. Now its up to you to write your government
representatives and ask them to replace your state bird with one of
these cool video games.
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| More Kitty Drama at GameStop
Headquarters |
| December 12, 2007 at 11:56am |
We R in ur kubikle, watchin u werk.
In the middle of planning our midnight openings and tournaments for
the release of Kitty Luv for Wii, some real-life kitty
drama interrupted our workday for a while at the GameStop
Store Support Center.
While walking to the building on a drizzly morning, Nick in our
Creative Services Department heard
the plaintive cries of "Mew, mew, meow," coming from one of the parking-lot storm
drains,
which is kitten for "We R in ur storm drane, waiting to be reskewed."
He enlisted the help of
GameStop associates Debra, John, Jason and Joseph, also known as the
League of Kitten Rescuers,
to extract the trapped kittens. (They have been training for months
for just such an opportunity.) They were rewarded with some ruined
clothes, the satisfaction of
helping some living
creatures and a Tetanus booster.
Debra fashioned a temporary kitty shelter
from a cardboard box and a sweatshirt, and harbored the kittens in her cubicle,
while a steady stream of onlookers "oohed" and "aahed" over the cute
little fur balls. Debra, a volunteer animal rescuer for the SPCA of
Texas and a former United States Marine,
has taken it upon herself to find good homes for the kittens. Sam in our Creative
Services Department and his wife Maurena are taking care of them
until then.
We are happy to report that no animals were harmed in the writing of this blog, although
Mark in our Merchandising Department sneezed a couple of times.
We'll let you know when more breaking kitty news comes our way. |
| Power and More Space to the Players |
| December 11, 2007 at 3:57pm |
The new tournament-hosting center in
San Jose.
In our continuing effort to bring power to the players, GameStop has
opened its first world-class tournament center and store, which is
sure to go over better than our short-lived store and
funnel-cake center.
This store has been built from the ground up to host any tournament format conceivable to man, and its
elevated and lighted stage — that looks as much like a television soundstage as
a store — is ideal
for media coverage. The 4,000-sqaure-foot store can accommodate major tournaments and still leave room
for our shoppers to navigate the aisles and ring the register. The stage features 24 networked gaming
stations and plasma monitors for hosting tournament events, while an additional eight adjacent systems
and plasmas can either be used for extra-tournament play or just trying out game demos. We have no word
at this time on whether you'll be able to reenact the Billie Jean video on the LED-lighted floor,
but the stage certainly seems capable of handling it.
The San Jose store will christen the new facility with a Madden NFL '08
tournament this weekend, and it will eventually host millions of tournaments
well into the future. This store is the prototype
for similar tournament center stores we hope to place all over the
United States. We'll let you know when the next one comes along.
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| A Great Gift Idea for the Holidays, or
"Holidaze" |
| December 10, 2007 at 6:23pm |
DesKripTor the Robot is stealing your DS Lite.
As we've mentioned in previous blog entries, the intentional misspelling of a word
automatically makes it "kooler." If you're looking to fill out your Christmas list,
the Nintendo DS Lite is sure to please just about anyone, unless you're shopping for
the president of Sony. The DS Lite is brighter or "briter" than the original
Nintendo DS, less than two-thirds the size and more than 20-percent lighter.
The name is also 20-percent lighter because
they managed to get rid of the "gh" in "light" and turn it into "lite," thus saving us
valuable typing time. We would say it's 20-percent "liter," but that sounds more like
a metric unit of liquid measurement than a heaviness descriptor. By the way,
"DesKripTor" would be a good name for an evil robot.
In order to save you 20-percent of your reading time, let us get back to the subject
at hand. You know somebody who's been good all year and deserves something special.
The DS Lite will fit the bill nicely. If they've been really good, you could upgrade
to a DS Lite bundled with games like Legend of Zelda: Phantom
Hourglass or Mario Party. Check out more DS Lite options here. No
matter which one you choose, you will make your gift recipient at
least 20-percent happier. |
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