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American video game retailer
GameStop Corp. is an American video game, consumer electronics, and gaming merchandise retailer, headquartered in Grapevine, Texas. The brand is the largest video game retailer worldwide. As of January 2026, the company operated 2,206 stores including 1,598 in the United States, 300 in Australia and 308 in Europe under the GameStop, EB Games, Micromania-Zing, ThinkGeek and Zing Pop Culture brands. The company was founded in Dallas in 1984 as Babbage's, and took on its current name in 1999. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: GameStopA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Bloomberg and the GameStop saga: The fear of stock market democracyInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Antisocial NetworkThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: A tale of company fundamentals vs sentiment driven pricing: The case of GameStopCited 121 times
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
A tale of company fundamentals vs sentiment driven pricing: The case of GameStop
“I just like the stock”: The role of Reddit sentiment in the GameStop share rally
Who participated in the GameStop frenzy? Evidence from brokerage accounts
YOLO trading: Riding with the herd during the GameStop episode
The role of Reddit in the GameStop short squeeze
Self-induced consensus of Reddit users to characterise the GameStop short squeeze
A note on GameStop, short squeezes, and autodidactic herding: An evolution in financial literacy?
How online discussion board activity affects stock trading: the case of GameStop
🆕 Influential since 2022
Bloomberg and the GameStop saga: The fear of stock market democracy
Did David win a battle or the war against Goliath? Dynamic return and volatility connectedness between the GameStop stock and the high short interest indices
Social informedness and investor sentiment in the GameStop short squeeze
Game Starts at GameStop: Characterizing the Collective Behaviors and Social Dynamics in the Short Squeeze Episode
The dynamics of the Reddit collective action leading to the GameStop short squeeze
📚 Books worth reading
Antisocial NetworkBen Mezrich · 2021
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