GameStop continues diversifying by picking up 163 RadioShack locations to sell phones

GameStop doesn’t just sell games. It also owns and operates hundreds of Spring Mobile stores that deal in AT&T-branded phones. Today, that part of the retailer’s business is expanding.

As RadioShack closes, GameStop has stepped in to pick up the leases for 163 locations (via Wall Street Journal). The world’s largest game-specific retailer will fill those stores not with Xboxes and PlayStations but with iPhones and Android devices. Today, the court overseeing RadioShack’s bankruptcy approved GameStop subsidiary Spring Mobile’s offer to pay $2.4 million to lease these outlets. This will see GameStop’s Spring Mobile stores locations grow by about 50 percent.