GameStop is closing more stores this year, after already shutting down 23 locations in Upstate New York.
CNN reports the video game retailer plans to close “a significant number” of stores in the coming months, according to a regulatory filing Tuesday. A specific number and locations were not detailed, but the company closed about 1,000 locations globally over the past year.
Stores that have closed in recent months include Central New York locations in Camillus (near Fairmount Fair), Clay (Cor Center), Cortland, Oneida (Glenwood Shopping Plaza) and Oswego. It’s also game over at other Empire State shops in Albany, Buffalo, Kingston, Niagara Falls, Rochester, and Saratoga Springs.
GameStop had about 2,325 U.S. locations as of Feb. 1 and about 900 stores in other countries. That’s about half of its peak brick-and-mortar footprint of 6,000 worldwide locations a decade ago.
New York state locations that remain open include Destiny USA in Syracuse.
GameStop said Wednesday it plans to raise about $1.3 billion to invest in Bitcoin, shifting away from retail and towards cryptocurrency. According to Yahoo! Finance, share prices initially rose about 12% but then slid more than 8% in after-hours trading Wednesday.
GameStop is best known for selling both new and used video games, controllers, consoles and other electronics items. The company has struggled to compete with increased competition from online retailers and streaming gaming options, despite a recent effort converting some locations into “retro” stores last year to attract fans of older Nintendo, PlayStation, Sega Genesis and Xbox products.
Yahoo! Finance reports the company posted $1.28 billion in net sales for the most recent quarter, a 28% decline from the same period a year earlier. An analyst told CNN that the pivot to crypto is “really a defense against irrelevance.”
GameStop previously made headlines in 2020 when Reddit users pushed its value on the stock market up 1,500% within two weeks to $500 per share, as featured in the 2023 movie “Dumb Money.”
GameStop stores closed in Upstate New York in recent months:
Albany, NY – Northway Mall, 1440 Central Ave Ste 11
Brewster, NY – The Highlands, 111 Independent Way Ste. C
Brockport, NY – Sweden Shopping Center, 1651 Nathaniel Poole TRL Ste G
Cortland, NY – Shoppes at Cortland, 826 Bennie Rd
Delmar, NY – Delaware Plaza, 180 Delaware Ave.
Depew, NY – 4960 Transit Rd, Ste B
Hornell, NY – Hornell Plaza, 1012 State Rd. 36
Johnson City, NY – 1 Oakdale Mall
Kingston, NY – Hudson Valley Mall, 1300 Ulster Ave. #H-07
Lakewood, NY – Village Center, 279 E Fairmount Ave, Suite H
Latham, NY – Latham Circle, 800 New Loudon Rd
Latham, NY – Latham Farms, 579 Troy-Schenectady Rd.
Liverpool, NY – Cor Center (Clay), 3873 State Route 31, Ste 170
Monroe, NY – Harriman Commons, 215 Larkin Drive
Niagara Falls, NY – 6690 Niagara Falls Blvd
Oneida, NY – 2188 Glenwood Plaza
Oswego, NY – Price Chopper S.C., 137 State Rt. 104
Painted Post, NY – 3159 Silverback Lane
Rensselaer, NY – Shoppes at Greenbush, 307 Troy Rd.
Rochester, NY – Market Square, 620 Jefferson Rd Ste 500
Saratoga Springs, NY – Wilton Square, 3039 Route 50 Ste 3
Syracuse, NY – 3528 W. Genesee St (Near Fairmount Fair in Camillus)
Troy, NY – Brunswick Plaza, 740 Hoosick Rd.
All closings listed on GameStop website as of March 27, 2025. If we’re missing any locations, please email [email protected].
