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GameStop Offers Female-Focused Magazines with Fitness Games

 
Are you one of the nearly 700,000 people who bought a copy of Wii Fit in November? Or perhaps you're one of the countless still trying to find it on store shelves after a sold out holiday season? If you fit into either of these camps, you just might be one of the "busy moms who often don?t have time to spare for exercise" that GameStop is targeting with their latest promotion (via a report from Kotaku). In a press release boasting about over 40 "fitness-oriented titles" on sale (link)

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