GameStop Brings Gamers Together in #SummerAtGameStop
15 August 2015 - 1:05AM
Business Wire
Five weeks of gaming stories and amazing prizes
show the power of video games
GameStop, a family of specialty retail brands that makes the
most popular technologies affordable and simple, has announced the
winners in its #SummerAtGameStop: a five-week social engagement and
contest series aimed at gamers sharing their personal stories on
how video gaming brings fans together to create unique friendships
and lifelong relationships - and brought longtime friends together
from across the country in the process. The program encompassed
five themed weeks: Never Met, Romance, Reunited, Game Night, and
Rematch and asked gamers to share their favorite gaming story
related to the theme of each week for a chance to win epic gaming
experiences and gear.
Winning entries include:
- Albert who shared his Never Met story
about his pal Matt. His entry won the long-distance friends each a
round-trip flight plus $2,000 in cash and GameStop gift cards.
Albert plans on taking a cross country trip to finally meet Matt in
person.
- Andrea who started a Romance while
gaming on Xbox Live and has now has been married to her partner for
two years. The pair won a weekend getaway plus $1,000 in GameStop
gift cards.
- Matt who said he’d like to be Reunited
with childhood friends and face off once again on NHL ’94. Matt won
top of the line gaming gear for the occasion.
- Jeff who told us about his epic Game
Nights: all night gaming and junk food binges with his brother and
buddies. He won a flat screen television and a $2,500 GameStop gift
card to help he and his crew take their next game night up a
notch!
- And Alex who declared his brother as
his nemesis with whom he’d want a Rematch -- from 1200 miles away.
Alex won a $500 GameStop gift card to set his plan in motion.
“The response from the gaming community was staggering,” said
Frank Hamlin, chief marketing officer at GameStop. “We collected
thousands of incredible, heart-touching examples of the power that
video games possess to turn strangers into best friends, to keep
families and friends connected across the globe and to help all
gamers create lasting memories and relationships.”
In the course of the five-week series, GameStop came across one
story that stood out above the rest. It’s the tale of a few sailors
and a ship of hundreds united in one gaming purpose: to play
Halo.
Countless hours of Halo tournaments took place on the USS Shoup.
The tournaments grew so large that the captain approved the
installation of a LAN throughout the ship so that multiple game
play stations could be created. He even set aside one day
where everyone took a timeout from normal operations to have a
large Halo tournament.
Fast forward 10 years, our Halo heroes each have families of
their own and have spent hours sharing their video game memories
with their family, hoping that one day they can play together once
more.
GameStop made that happen. Watch the video here.
"At its core, the #SummerAtGameStop program was about the
special connections that gaming can make in our lives,” said
Hamlin. “The story of our ‘Halo Heroes’ is essentially about a
modern-day band of brothers whose love of gaming brought them even
closer. It shows just how much gaming has become a part of our
social fabric – initiating a form of casual competition
and team building that forges friendships. We’re happy to have
had the privilege to reconnect these friends and give them the
chance to play another round of Halo together.”
About GameStop
GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500
company headquartered in Grapevine, Texas, is a global,
multichannel video game, consumer electronics and wireless services
retailer. GameStop operates more than 6,600 stores across 14
countries. The company’s consumer product network also includes
www.gamestop.com; www.Kongregate.com, a leading browser-based game
site; and Game Informer® magazine, the world’s leading print and
digital video game publication. In addition, our Technology Brands
segment includes our Simply Mac and Spring Mobile businesses.
Simply Mac, www.simplymac.com, operates 71 stores, selling the full
line of Apple products, including laptops, tablets, and smartphones
and offering Apple certified warranty and repair services. Spring
Mobile, http://springmobile.com, sells post-paid AT&T services
and wireless products through its 410 AT&T branded stores and
offers pre-paid wireless services, devices and related accessories
through its 68 Cricket branded stores in select markets throughout
the United States.
General information about GameStop Corp. can be obtained at the
company's corporate website. Follow GameStop on Twitter @
www.twitter.com/GameStop and find GameStop on Facebook @
www.facebook.com/GameStop.
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Jackie SmithGameStop – Public
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