Electronics Boutique Holdings Corp, the newly floated chain of retail stores specializing in electronic games and entertainment software, showed strong growth in its half year figures released on Monday, urged onwards buy a buoyant market for PC games software and related 3D accelerator cards. Having gone public in July this year, the West Chester, Pennsylvania-based company now claims to be the biggest retailer of electronic games and related software in the world, with second quarter revenues jumping 40% to $103m. Net losses for the quarter fell to $662,000 from last year’s losses of $2.3m. We participate in the full spectrum of electronic gaming software, hardware and accessory retailing, and as a result, are benefiting from strong and growing demand, said chief executive Joe Firestone. The company currently operates 479 stores worldwide, while also supplying management services to its 25% owned Electronics Boutique Plc stores in the UK and Ireland. Salomon Smith Barney (which took the company public) and Prudential Securities Inc both commenced their coverage of Electronics Boutique last week with Buy and Strong Buy ratings respectively.