Banks led US stock indexes mostly higher on Friday, propelling the Nasdaq composite index to its fourth record high this week.

FERDI Roberts isn’t a conventional Irishman — but he does approve of conventions. 

The PlayStation VR is out now in Ireland, which means you can bring virtual reality home for your PlayStation 4 any time you please.

Marketers will have to catch ‘em quick if they want to capitalise on the Pokémon Go craze.

Insomniac Games, the developers of blockbuster titles like Ratchet & Clank, have signed a new deal with Gamestop to release smaller scale fare, and the first game is almost here.

Ronan Jennings discusses Witness, Song of the Deep and Ghostbusters

This is a weird one - High Moon Studios 2013 action title Deadpool is set to get a remaster to bring it to Xbox One and PS4 this November.

Sales of the bestselling Call of Duty, Minecraft, Grand Theft Auto, and Fifa 2015 games were not enough to prevent pre-tax losses increasing fourfold to €1.43m at the Irish arm of Gamestop last year.

You’ve probably seen them everywhere from Easons and Gamestop to comic book stores but if you’re still wondering what they are, POP! Vinyl figures are the latest in collectable items.

UP, UP, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A. Do you recognise that? It’s the Konami code, the most famous cheat code in gaming.

INVESTORS seeking a return close to 13% on their €1m investment should beat a path to Cork’s Marlboro Street and to nos 40/41, home to travel company Trailfinders, which is occupying on a 25-year lease from 2006.

You may want to dig out your old collection of games, as Gamestop will soon start accepting trade-ins of retro games and consoles.

Sales of the bestselling Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, and FIFA games helped return the Irish arm of Gamestop to operating profit last year.

A leading European venture capital firm has joined forces with Enterprise Ireland to launch a new multi-millon euro fund aimed exclusively at the Irish market.

Irish gamers are proving to be the most eager in the world to get their hands on the Microsoft Xbox One.

They are set to be at the top of every Christmas wishlist, but unless you were among the customers pre-ordering them up to two years ago, the Xbox One and Playstation 4 look set to sell out instantly.

Activision has claimed it shifted $1bn worth of Call of Duty: Ghosts on its first day of release.

More than 3,000 jobs are expected to be saved by a deal to rescue part of struggling retailer Game Group by a turn-around investment firm in a boost for the high street.

Gaming specialist Game officially went into administration yesterday, leading to the loss of 125 jobs in 14 stores here.

It has just been announced that 231 Irish jobs are to be axed at retailer Game.

Lenders of stricken Game Group are working on plans to buy the slimmed-down retailer out of administration, it was reported today.

There is growing uncertainty over the future of leading high-street computer game retailer Game, which operates 13 stores in Ireland, employing 125 people.

A Bangladeshi who followed a 14-year-old girl with Downs Syndrome into a shop and sexually assaulted her has been given a suspended sentence of three years.

LOSSES at the Irish arm of the world’s largest video game and entertainment software retailer, Gamestop, narrowed by 29% to €3 million last year.

A major Australian construction contractor is urgently looking for 100 Irish workers to work on the largest natural gas project in Australia's history.

THE first major shopping centre to open in Ireland in almost two years will provide up to 450 job.

IRISH gadget fans were last night finally able to get their hands on two of the most anticipated portable devices of the year, the iPad 2 and the Nintendo 3DS.

Gift Voucher Shop (GVS), the company behind the multi-store One4all Gift Card and Voucher, has announced the addition of Hamleys Toy Shop, Next and Gamestop to its retail portfolio.

THE Irish arm of the world’s largest video game and entertainment software retailer, Gamestop, went into the red last year recording pre-tax losses of €3 million.

Games retailer Gamestop is recruiting 125 part time staff in the lead-up to Christmas.

WITH a movie-style premiere, sales of controversial video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 are already set to smash previous records in Ireland and around the globe.

GameStop is to open its 50th store in Ireland at the Ballincollig Shopping Centre in Cork today.

A TOP-SELLING video game has been given an adult-only rating after explicit sex scenes were found hidden in it.

Wall Street staggered to a narrowly mixed finish today after last week’s sell-offs.

Computer games retail chain Gamesworld has been acquired by US company GameStop for a reported $3.1m (€4.5m).

Relatively solid retail sales figures inspired another rally on Wall Street today as investors grew more confident about an impending economic recovery.