People enter a GameStop store in Alhambra, California on January 27, 2021. An epic battle is unfolding on Wall Street, with a cast of characters clashing over the fate of GameStop, a struggling chain of video game retail stores. Traders have been astounded in recent days by the surge in struggling video game retailer GameStop’s share price, after a group of amateur investors banded together over the online platform Reddit to fight the Wall Street funds that had pushed its price lower.