Movie Gallery is shutting down the GameCrazy section at nearly a third of its movie rental stores. The company blamed the economy as it targeted 200 underperforming locations in deciding which would have their videogame store-within-a-store sections eliminated. GameCrazy is located inside approximately 680 Movie Gallery stores.
Gamasutra reports the story based on it first appearing in Home Media Magazine. A stock portfolio manager is quoted in the magazine as saying the future for Gamestop is also uncertain, given that it also relies on videogames sold on physical media as digital downloads grow.
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