Which aligns with a December 2025 SEC filing
While EB Games Australia has proposed the closure of all its New Zealand-based stores, North American counterpart GameStop has reportedly closed down more than 400 stores across the US in the opening days of 2026.
A blogspot site that gathers store closures through employee reporting and GameStop’s store locator reports that 435 stores have closed this year, at the time of writing. As Polygon adds, these moves should have been expected; according to a December 2025 SEC filing, GameStop said it anticipated “closing a significant number of additional stores in fiscal 2025.”
The same filing said that GameStop had already closed 590 stores in 2024. A different SEC filing from earlier in 2025 stated that GameStop operated a total of 2,325 stores in the United States at that time.
The December 2025 SEC filing stated that GameStop also planned to close stores in Canada, France, Austria, Ireland, Switzerland, Germany, and Italy.
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