{"id":7440,"date":"2011-05-19T19:47:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T02:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7440"},"modified":"2018-07-23T20:48:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T20:48:10","slug":"gamestop-tests-spawn-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/gamestop-tests-spawn-service\/","title":{"rendered":"GameStop Tests Spawn Labs Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10200\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10200\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10200 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/spawn_hd-720-S-e1427958906770.jpg\" alt=\"Spawn's HD-730 streamed console games to PCs.\" width=\"390\" height=\"108\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spawn&#8217;s HD-730 streamed console games to PCs.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MAY 19, 2011 \u2022 GameStop is beta testing a cloud-based distribution service fulfilled through game streaming startup Spawn Labs that was acquired by the retailer last March. The internal testing is available to GameStop employees only.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: GameStop has made it clear that they are going on a dual-pronged approach where they remain a leader in physical distribution while also capitalizing on the growth of digital distribution.\u00a0 Last year, GameStop acquired casual online game distributor Kongregate as part of their movement to digital distribution.\u00a0 Long term, a company like GameStop faces major challenges if consumers start to slowdown on buying physical products.\u00a0 However, correctly combining a strong physical retail presence with an online strategy could allow GameStop to standout.\u00a0 The ability to exchange products bought online at a physical store is one of many examples of what could allow brick and mortar retailers to survive the growth of digital distribution.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAY 19, 2011 \u2022 GameStop is beta testing a cloud-based distribution service fulfilled through game streaming startup Spawn Labs that was acquired by the retailer last March. The internal testing is available to GameStop employees only. Impact: GameStop has made it clear that they are going on a dual-pronged approach where they remain a leader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137,110,78],"tags":[83,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7440"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16612,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440\/revisions\/16612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}