GameStop recently pulled the plug on nine Washington stores as part of a slew of closures around the country, its website shows.
Founded in 1984 — the same year that Tetris was introduced as a video game — GameStop has found it difficult to level up in the modern era, as the company goes head-to-head with major retailers and the latest technology.
The electronic retail company continues to manage more than two dozen locations statewide.
In recent years, the primary objectives of the Grapevine, Texas-based company have been to achieve profitability and expand its market.
That’s meant forfeiting its operations in Austria, Ireland, Switzerland, Germany and Italy, per company filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
As of February, the retailer operated 2,325 stores in the U.S., 374 in Australia and 311 across Europe. That count included 193 in Canada, though it sold its subsidiary in the Great White North since then.
The U.S. has not been spared from the cull. Almost 600 stores closed stateside in fiscal 2024, according to the filings, and GameStop planned to shutter “a significant number of additional stores in fiscal 2025.”
The company said in the filings that its biggest competition in the U.S. comes from Walmart, Target, Best Buy and Amazon, on top of opponents in the global market like Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft. “Technological advances,” including downloaded video games, have also strangled the business.
GameStop generated $821 million in net sales in its latest financial results for the third quarter of 2025 — a year-over-year drop from about $860 million. Net income amounted to $41.3 million for the period, compared to $17.4 million for the same quarter in 2024.
GameStop didn’t immediately confirm the list of closed locations. The affected locations are marked permanently closed online:
- The Bothell Center: 18827 Bothell Way N.E., Bothell
- Meadowbrook Plaza: 1705 S.E. Meadowbrook Blvd., College Place
- Federal Way Marketplace: 34512 16th Ave. S., Federal Way
- Canyon Lakes Center: 4008 W. 27th Ave., Kennewick
- The Village at Totem Lake: 12525 Totem Lake Blvd., Kirkland
- Lakewood Towne Center: 5605 Lakewood Towne Center. Blvd., Lakewood
- 164th Street Crossing: 1402 164th St. S.W., Lynnwood
- Bear Creek Village: 17128 Redmond Way, Redmond
- Westgate South: 2315 N. Pearl St., Tacoma
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