[UPDATE] Here are some of the takeaways from GameStop's earnings call, based on comments made by management: The original story is below. GameStop today reported earnings for the quarter ended October 29, and the results were not what the retailer would have wanted. The store reported total global sales of $1.96 billion, a decrease of 2.8 percent year-over-year. As GameStop said in its preliminary sales announcement, games released in the "last few weeks of October" underperformed, with new software sales dropping by 8.6 percent. No specific titles were mentioned, but Gears of War 4, Battlefield 1 (October 21), Civilization VI (October 21), Titanfall 2 (October 28), Skyrim Special Edition (October 28), would be considered high-profile games that came out at the end of October. For Titanfall 2, EA management recently suggested that first-day and first-week sales were not extraordinary.