Gamestop now allows you to buy digital download games in their brick and mortar stores.

I don't think so, I bet they will be "Exclusive"

LOLGAMESTOPLOL

I can tell you how it works from personal experience.

They did this intially with DeusEx:HR. You bought the DIGITAL version of it in the store. You had to ask for this because the store people had no idea what the heck it was. I was literally 2 days from launch and I was the FIRST PERSON EVER to do it at my local store, to give you an idea. But the process works like this

1) You go to Gamestop and ask to buy the digital version of game X. Wait for employes to go through their manuals to figure out how to actually do this.
2) You purchase the item
3) your receipt will contain a code DO NOT LOSE THIS!?!
4) Download the gamestop client
5) Redeem the code in the client
6) Download the game

For Steam games, once you register your code in the Gamestop client, you can then get the Steam code for the game (yes that's very very weird) and just register the game directly in Steam without having to download whatever it is the Gamestop client would. Then you just manage your Steam game from Steam instead.

If you purchase Steam games from within the Gamestop client you can repeat the process of getting the Steam key. I did this with Payday:The Heist.

As long as you only buy Steam games, you only need the Gamestop client to get your Steam cd-key so you don't have to have the client running except for that one time. So far I've bought DeusEx:HR, Payday the Heist, Shogun2, Shogun FotS, and Mass Effect 3 this way (ME3 was again an Origin key). As long as you're careful about buyign Steam only games you don't need the client for anythign except giving you a cd-key to copy and paste into Steam.

Let me know if you have any other questions and I can answer them to the best of my ability.

Gamestop needs to be doing something like this for the sake of their business because once the next gen consoles are released there wont be a used game market except for older consoles. Going digital seems to be the future for games, if Gamestop doesn't evolve with the game industry they will be put out of business.

Im thinking about getting the Elven Legacy series, but not sure if I want to because there is no real way to tell if its Steam enabled or not.

Yes, they have a thingy called "Impulse". Quite the hassle, I remember when I got a code for a copy of BF3 through IGN's glitch I had to redeem it on their digital store in the software and then obtain the code for Origin.

Needless to say, once I got the Origin code I had Impulse removed.

Whats the point >.< if you are in the store buy the damn CD or DVD...