As of Monday morning GameStop bought EB Games for 1.44 billion dollars, 70 percent of it being cash and the rest in stock shares. So what does this mean to the average person? Probably not much, but to the gamers of the world it is tremendous. GameStop is the largest video game chain in the United State and EB Games has expanded itself from the United States to Canada, and now even Paris. In short, with GameStop merging with EB Games, it has created a corporation as large or even larger than the Wal-Marts and Targets of the world but are strictly devoted to video games, DVD movies, and other gaming products. This means that theres going to be more advertisements and more frequent coupons and discounts in our Sunday papers for the newly branded GameStops. Thus being a very exciting time for the gamer community. So now how is this information relevant to psychology? The goal of this merger is to attract more cliental to GameStop, which sells games that have mature and violent......
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