These days, GameStop has a lot of reasons to celebrate. It's working on an industry that's growing every day, it's posting some serious numbers financially, and has recently opened its 1,000th store outside of the US.

The Texas-based game and console retailer has opened new stores recently in Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Norway to hit the thousand-store milestone. Prior to that, the company has already branched out to Ireland, Switzerland, Australia, Guam, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

GameStop points to the booming hardware sales led by Kyoto-based Nintendo with its DS handheld and Wii console. Microsoft and Sony are also pitching in with the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, respectively.

Total sales posted by the retailer last year amounted to US$ 5.32 billion and is expected to grow even more this year as hot demand continues for pole platforms. The first quarter of fiscal 2007 saw GameStop with its best quarterly performance ever with US$ 24.7 million in profits while gross sales were at an all-time high of US$ 1.279 billion.

If you have an account at Nintendo's official website then you are eligible to participate in Best Buy's Buy 1 Get 1 Free promotion for Nintendo DS games. If you aren't a member, don't fret because signing up for a My Nintendo account is completely free! However, only those who live in the United States of America (excluding Puerto Rico) are eligible for this offer. To take advantage of the offer you must also register your DS at nintendo.com.

The offer is only available online and you must sign up for a Best Buy account. You have to buy all three games at once for the discount to happen. The third game, as always, must be of an equal or lesser value than the two other games. Click "Read" for the offer.

Andreas Seyfarth has done a wonderful job with Puerto Rico, a popular German boardgame, that his game has already received a remarkable number of prizes all over the world - including the International Gamers Award for General plus Multiplayer Categories.

Now Puerto Rico, which lets players assume the roles of Puerto Rico colonial governors during the Caribbean ascendancy, has been ported by johanb123 to the Nintendo DS. The first release already had game mechanics fully implemented with dummy AI players serving as opponents. Upon the release, johanb123 promised to improve on these AI and implement a TCP/IP multiplayer mode - so a few days ago, he gave us an update saying that work on the latter has already started.

Today, another Puerto Rico DS update comes our way: the multiplayer test is now in our midst. If you like to see how the multiplayer part of the game is faring right now, feel free to give the download (provided below) a go. Don't forget to provide your constructive criticisms and feedbacks on the game's state by leaving your comments below or visiting the Puerto Rico DS site (here).

Download: [Puerto Rico DS Multiplayer Test]