Pokemon Sword and Shield players will soon be able to add another shiny legendary Pokemon to their collection. Beginning Sept. 18, GameStop stores across the US and Canada will be giving out free download codes for a shiny Eternatus. This Pokemon is level 100 and knows the moves Dynamax Cannon, Eternabeam, Sludge Bomb and Flamethrower. …
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GameStop is going all in on crypto. The video game retailer launched its own self-custodial ethereum digital wallet, it said Monday. The wallet will be accessible through a Google Chrome extension and can be used to buy and sell NFTs on GameStop’s upcoming NFT marketplace, which is expected to launch by the end of July. NFTs, or nonfungible tokens, are …
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If you’re going to have a wireless charger, you might as well have one with some style, right? There are so many chargers out there, but you don’t have to pick the same flat black slab you can get everywhere else. The Millennium Falcon wireless charger is super slick and usually $50, but right now you can get it for …
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GameStop added multiple PS5 and Xbox Series bundles Wednesday to its site as first spotted by deal finder Wario64. These bundles aren’t cheap, but you get what you pay for, which typically consists of the console, an extra controller, GameStop gift cards and a game or two. Here are the bundles that could be available today: PS5 MLB The Show 21 and …
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Robinhood Markets, the company behind the wildly popular investing app, on Wednesday priced its initial public offering at $38 a share, at the bottom of its expected range. The IPO — one of the most anticipated stock market listings of the year — values the company at about $32 billion. Robinhood sold 55 million shares at low end of its …
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If you’ve been trying to get your hands on the PlayStation 5 for months — but still miserably failing — you’re not alone. Even though Sony launched the new console five months ago, it’s still extremely hard for anyone to get their hands one. The pandemic and the global chip shortage have definitely contributed to this lack of inventory, but demand for the PS5 has …
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The House Financial Services Committee has announced the lineup for its GameStop hearing next week. The committee will hear testimony from Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, Melvin Capital CEO Gabriel Plotkin, Citadel CEO Kenneth Griffin and Reddit user Keith Gill, Rep. Maxine Waters announced Friday afternoon. The virtual hearing, called “Game Stopped? Who Wins and Loses When …
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The family of a 20-year-old man filed a lawsuit against the investment Robinhood on Monday, saying its popular investment app was responsible for the student’s suicide. Alex Kearns, who was studying at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, killed himself last June after he believed he had racked up roughly $730,000 in trading losses on the app. The distress caused by the …
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This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. While Black Friday used to mean “big sales the day after Thanksgiving,” nowadays, it’s come to mean “any good deal in November.” That rings true this year more than ever, with Black Friday sales already happening at Best Buy, Target and (of course) Amazon. Plus, Walmart’s big sale …
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If you’ve ever tried to get help with, say, a printer that won’t print, a laptop that has a virus, a phone that’s not working or the like, you know that tech support can be: A) Expensive; B) Inconvenient; C) Hard to come by. Indeed, just knowing who to call for help can be a challenge, and a single support …
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