Things at GameStop apparently aren’t all gumdrops and lollypops. A manager at the retailer dropped word that “a few things have happened recently that have indicated that the company is having major troubles.” The insider goes on to state the following alarming information:

 

Last week we were given an email that told us that all employees of the company are having their hours reduced in order to “Protect Profits”. Store Managers must work extra hours as they are not paid hourly. This came along with another email and multiple phone calls from district managers saying that in the next month we MUST get massive amounts of reservations and Game Informer subscriptions. This is unusual for us because we always have some of the highest reservation and subscription rates in the company.

 

And what’s causing this? Our insider says:

 

I have heard rumors that they aren’t making enough to cover the large salaries in the upper management. This is the reason they have started selling Bundled Xbox 360’s on Gamestop.com for $1500 a piece even though the stores still haven’t even come close to satisfying all of the customers who reserved it over 6 months ago.

 

The manager goes on to say that some of the emails he has been receiving recently from the corporate offices “have made most of us a bit nervous about the welfare of the company.” He says that other area managers are calling and asking if he has any idea what’s going on, but even he seems to be in the dark. What about in Kotaku-land? Anybody with the inside scoop? If you work at GameStop and need commenting access, hit me up.

yes I ripped off the headline from the s-c thread

Emu#dreams reports that EightyOne, the ZX81 emulator for Microsoft Windows, has been updated. Version 0.42f now sees its second release, and below are the changes in this release of it.

- Fixed a bug where 1 extra byte was saved at the end of a.p file (Thanks to Simon Holdsworth)

You can visit the official homepage here, or simply download it here.

emulation number 9 reports that eSCV, the Japanese open source EPOCH Super Cassette Vision emulator for Microsoft Windows, has been updated today. Below is a quotation of the post made at its official homepage (translated).

2006.01.16

 

Bank changing of 32KB ROM + 32KB ROM type was supported.

The gong obtaining is, the sky kid and the like corresponds to this type.

Pole position, thermal fighting professional wrestling furthermore and seems like the type which differs, but details still are unclear.

 

The ドラゴンスレイヤー, the pop & Chips, concerning the ウィリーレーサー, there was a problem in range decision of the text.

Because only these software seem the other software and that behavior differs, it corresponds provisionally with the patch.

 

With the indication of the Enri, when color number of sprite 0 is, it tried to make transparent.

For example title logograph without going out in the アストロウォーズ, the trouble which remains has solved.

In addition, repeating sprite, the occasion where it indicates, the order which is indicated it was reversed.

 

At the time of sprite connection, it seems that is times when the same pattern is indicated in the X direction.

Because still detailed condition is unclear, only approximately elevator fighting spirit that you tried trying is indicated in trial.

When future, detailed condition is ascertained, the patch is abolished.

 

BASIC introduction. It was operational at point in time of renewal of yesterday, but being to be the time angle it pastes.

It reached the point where this moves therefore it is, how probably will be with 眷 being attached of the outdated PC, you try appealing, (laughing)

You can visit the official homepage here, or simply download it here.

retroguru.com reports that SquidgeSNES, the Super NES emulator for GP2x, has been updated to version 0.33. Below are the changes in this version

- Made the non-scaled mode a little prettier - it’s now centered and you can use a background image

- You can now using the L/R buttons to scroll the file selector faster

- Filenames are now sorted

You can visit the official homepage here, or simply download it here.