GameStop continues to try and find a place in the rapidly evolving industry of video games. As many sites have previously discussed, the future seems to be moving in a digital distribution model. Gamestop knows this and is already making investments in multiple ways to distribute games digitally themselves. Take for instance their purchase of Spawn Labs back in March.
Spawn Labs are developers of a cloud based gaming service like OnLive or Gaikai. GameStop has announced they are now officially testing a beta version of the service. They are currently live streaming a number of "Xbox 360, PS3, and PC games from a data centre in Austin, TX". GameStop also hopes to begin a "closed beta" before the end of 2011 and launch the service officially a few months later in 2012.
Optimally, the service would offer a "wide selection o f high-definition video games on demand on any internet-enabled device". Meaning your smart phones could one day stream a triple-A title, provided you have the bandwidth. What a crazy future awaits us.
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[Source: Blog Posts from "ScrewAttack News"]
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