GameStop details plans for Impulse and Spawn Labs, says it’s ‘becoming a technology company’

Well, it looks like GameStop’s plans following its acquisition of Impulse and Spawn Labs may be even grander than we had suspected. At an investor conference today, GameStop said flat out that it is “becoming a technology company,” and that it does indeed plan to introduce a cloud-based gaming service similar to OnLive as a result of the Spawn Labs acquisition, while Impulse will be used to “compete fiercely” with Steam. But that’s just the start of things. According to the Dallas Morning News , GameStop also plans to expand the gaming service to a variety of mobile devices, and it’s apparently even entertaining the idea of a GameStop-branded tablet, saying that “if we feel like we could do a better job of making a tablet, we’ll do that.” Of course, some of that is still quite a ways off, but GameStop will be taking its first steps fairly soon — it’s already showed off a demo of how the service will be integrated into its website (see above, complete with a “try it now” option), and it plans to begin a public beta sometime this year before rolling out the full service early next year. GameStop details plans for Impulse and Spawn Labs, says it’s ‘becoming a technology company’ originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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