In early January, gaming retail outlet Gamestop announced that they are planning to close all of their stores in Puerto Rico before the end of March. In doing so, Gamestop is laying off over five hundred employees across three dozen stores in a short period of time. The announcement itself came abruptly, with Gamestop offering little reasoning in their public statement, just briefly mentioning that the decision arose partly due to government restrictions making business in the U.S. territory untenable. While most Americans simply shrugged and moved on, for Puerto Rican gamers, Gamestop's exit from the island signaled one more step in the decline of videogame retail for the commonwealth.