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GameStop’s digital plan falters

Between 2010 and 2011 GameStop announced three acquisitions to stake its claim in the majority-digital future of video games. First it snapped up the web-game company Kongregate at the end of July 2010 and then at the end of March 2011 agreed to purchase Spawn Labs, a streaming technology company, and Impulse Labs, the digital distribution subsidiary of Stardock Systems. So when GameStop announced during its April 2011 Investor Day event that it intended to …