Posts tagged seasonal

GameStop hiring 15,000 temporary employees this holiday

by Ben Gilbert (Oct 27th 2009 9:00PM)

Like other retailers, North America's largest video game brick-and-mortar chain will be gearing up for the holiday sales rush with a flood of new, temporary employees. GameStop is bolstering its "game advisors" numbers by 78% (see: grunts) and the company's total employee population by 46% (see: ...

Strong Q1 sales point to less cyclical gaming calendar

by Kyle Orland (Feb 21st 2007 5:25PM)

MCV takes a look at some recent ChartTrack sales data and notes that British game sales for the first few weeks of the new year are up significantly over 2006's already record-breaking first quarter. An interesting little factoid, to be sure, but the true importance comes out in a quote from Eidos ...

Video game character advent calendar

by Jennie Lees (Dec 23rd 2005 9:00PM)

If eagerly ripping up a piece of cardboard to reveal novelty-shaped chocolates isn't your idea of a good advent calendar, this may be more to your taste. Game-Addicts.com has been compiling an advent calendar featuring a different video game character every day in December, ranging from favourites ...