Gamestop teased and then it started talking more about selling a gaming-focused tablet, and now, without any sort of grand announcement, the tablets are available in some 200 U.S. retails. Anybody seen these yet?

It was just another day at Gamestop in Long Island, NY and employee (of four years) John Mazzocchi was thinking of ways to pass the time. So, he tweeted a couple pictures of himself planking in the empty store. Apparently, this caused quite a stir, because John was fired and ineligible for unemployment. Cautionary tale, folks: don't plank on the job.

Microsoft is officially wading into competitive retail with its own slew of storefronts, and the company just hired David Porter, the new VP of Retail Stores, to lead the charge when he starts on February 16th. "Defining the time frame,...