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GameFly Says People Wanted Batman More than Modern Warfare 3 or Skyrim

Evan Narcisse — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:40:00 EST

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Picking the best games of the year always boils down to opinion, which always leads to dissension over subjectivity and bias. So, while Kotaku's staffers rallied around Portal 2 as the site's GOTY, readers held their own damn awards and anointed Skyrim as their standout title for 2011. More »

GameFly Launches All-You-Can-Eat Digital Download Service for PC Games Today

Evan Narcisse — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:40:00 EST

More and more frequently, analysts and other people pontificate on the gaming industry's future to say is that brick-and-mortar retail locations are going to become a thing of the past. Like movies, music and even books, they say, video games are probably going to leave physical media behind. More »

GameFly Sweetens the Pot with PC Game Downloads

Mike Fahey — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:40:00 EDT

For nearly a decade GameFly has been the Netflix of video games, delivering console and handheld titles to eager gamers across the United States, but where's the PC gaming love? It's coming later this year, when GameFly rolls out an online client featuring more than 100 free PC game downloads. More »

GameFly Opens Seattle Distribution Center, Alaska Rejoices

Mike Fahey — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:40:00 EDT

The Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Wild. Majestic. Coffee-soaked. For too long these dark and mysterious areas of the United States have been bereft of a local GameFly distribution center, forced to suffer longer-than-normal shipping times for their game rentals. Today GameFly says no more. More »

Redbox Game Rentals Are Live

Brian Crecente — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:40:00 EDT

Starting Friday the denizens of grocery stores, Walmarts and gas stations nationwide can quickly rent video games from kiosks at $2 a day. More »

Report Says GameFly Picking Up Digital Distribution Service

Owen Good — Sun, 22 May 2011 13:00:00 EDT

Discs-to-your-door rental service Gamefly will buy Direct2Drive from IGN, according to a report by MCV, likely expanding digital rentals' availability over PC down the line. More »

Gamefly Triumphs in Postal Service Dispute

Owen Good — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:30:00 EDT

The U.S. Postal Service gave an unfair advantage to competitors like Netflix and Blockbuster Video, a regulatory board said Wednesday, awarding game rental service GameFly a victory in a two-year dispute over the postage, breakage and sorting of its disc mailings. More »

GameFly Implies It'd Double Monthly Profits If It Got the Netflix Postage Rate

Owen Good — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:00:00 EDT

GameFly has been at it with the U.S. Postal Service for nearly two years now over what it perceives as preferential treatment to Netflix, whose mailings GameFly alleges are given higher priority by postal sorters, not to mention a better postage rate. So much that savings from the postage rate Netflix enjoys would double GameFly's monthly profits. More »

Redbox Takes Video Game Rentals Nationwide

Owen Good — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:30:00 EDT

Redbox, the kiosk rental service offering DVDs at grocery stores, drugstores, convenience stores and store stores, will expand its pilot offering of video game rentals to locations nationwide. More »

Signs Point To NBA Jam On Disc [Updated]

Owen Good — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:00:00 EDT

GameFly has listed NBA Jam's PS3 and 360 version for release Nov. 18 and while that's most likely a placeholder date, the fact a rental service lists the game indicates it will be a retail disc release, not a download. More »

Blockbuster Rolls Out Games-By-Mail Nationwide

Mike Fahey — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:20:00 EDT

After testing out the service in several regions over the past year and a half, Blockbuster adds free video game rentals to its Blockbuster By Mail service, giving the specter of death hovering over the company brief pause. More »

Atari Reviving Centipede, Star Raiders Too?

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:00:00 EDT

Earlier this week, Atari revealed an unexpected retro-revival, a new game based on the original Haunted House for the Atari 2600. Atari's plans for breathing new life into old brands may not stop there. More »

Your Fourth Spider-Man From Shattered Dimensions Is...

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:20:00 EDT

...well, it could be a few things. What appears to be the final box art for Activision's Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions is here, thanks to Gamefly, apparently revealing the fourth, still unofficially revealed incarnation of Spidey. And he's black. More »

Netflix Disses Games-By-Mail, Old Games

Owen Good — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:00:00 EDT

Blockbuster's been toying with games-by-mail in select markets for about a year now, but don't expect Netflix to join the fun. More »

Blockbuster Online Game Rentals Head To Seattle

Mike Fahey — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:20:00 EST

After successfully launching the pilot program in Cleveland, Ohio, Blockbuster Video's Gamefly-challenging Games By Mail rental service expands into the Seattle area. More »

Gamefly App Lets You Carry Community, Controls With You

Brian Crecente — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:00:00 EDT

Video game rental service Gamefly rolled out a free application for the iPhone this week that they hope will become the one-stop-shop for gamers looking to get the lowdown on available and upcoming video games. More »

Konami Brings First DSi-only Game Monster Finder To America

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:20:00 EDT

Alpha Unit's Monster Finder, the first Nintendo DSi-only retail game announced for the platform, looks like it may have been picked up by Konami, due to arrive stateside early next year. More »

Postman Swipes 2,200 Gamefly Games

Mike Fahey — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EDT

A Philadelphia-area postal worker with sticky fingers has admitted to intercepting $86,000 worth of games originally intended for subscribers of GameFly's video game rental service. More »

GameFly Filing Shows Netflix-Only Mail Slots

Owen Good — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:20:00 EDT

The slapfight between GameFly and the U.S. Postal Service now extends to the question of official-or-unofficial "Netflix Only" mail slots, which the rent-by-mail service contends is another example of the inappropriate preferential treatment its peers and competitors receive. More »

Kiosk Chain Offering $2 Game Rentals

Owen Good — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:00:00 EDT

RedBox, the DVD rental kiosk company largely doing business in western U.S. supermarkets and McDonald's locations, has begun offering $2-a-night game rentals at its locations, with Reno, Nevada as a test market. More »

Square Enix Says Star Ocean PS3 Listing "An Error"

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:40:53 EDT

A listing for the PlayStation 3 version of Star Ocean: The Last Hope appeared on retailer Gamefly this week, an unannounced port of the Xbox 360 version. Square Enix reps now say that retailer listing was made in error. More »

Game Play, Used Game Sales Rocket During Recession

Brian Crecente — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:00:00 EDT

The number of hours that gamers play is at an all time high over the past few months, according to a new study from Nielsen. More »

GameFly Pays First Class Postage For Second Class Treatment

AJ Glasser — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:00:00 EDT

GameFly, the enormously successful rent-video-games-by-mail service, filed an official complaint yesterday with the Postal Regulatory Commission over the treatment of the games it ships, saying its costing them a fortune in broken discs. More »

GameFly Tests Your Game Knowledge With GameAnswers.com

Mike Fahey — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:40:00 EDT

GameFly has just launched GameAnswers.com, a website that allows gamers to share their knowledge of the industry and judge by their peers. More »

Secret Agent Clank Also Getting The PSP To PS2 Treatment?

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:40:47 EDT

Looks like Sony will be bringing former PSP exclusive Secret Agent Clank to the PlayStation 2, one those 70 games coming to the last-gen PlayStation, according to a new listing from GameFly. More »

GameFly In Kiosk Form

Mike Fahey — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:20:00 EST

Students at Texas Tech University have an all-new way to get a quick video game fix, as GameFly installs their first G-Box video game rental kiosk. More »

Get a Good Deal on Games

Brian Crecente — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:00:00 EST

The Wall Street Journal, well aware of the current state of economic affairs, ran a story today about all of the ways you can get a deal on video games. More »

Fallout 3 Tops GameFly's 2008 Most Wanted List

Brian Crecente — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:00:00 EST

Fallout 3 won Game of the Year and Xbox 360 Game of the Year in online video game renter GameFly's annual Q Awards. More »

Blockbuster Adding Games To Total Access

Mike Fahey — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:20:00 EST

Blockbuster Video's rent-by-mail program Total Access is set to become even more total later this year, with the addition of video game rentals to its expansive lineup of rental titles. More »

PS3, Xbox 360 Getting Some Much Needed Pinball This Summer

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:40:14 EST

Crave's excellent Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection will be getting a pair of high-definition ports this summer, apparently. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game just showed up at GameFly. More »

Shacknews Bought By..GameFly?

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:30:00 EST

It's a strange headline, yes, but that's how the world goes sometimes. Shacknews founder Steve Gibson has revealed that his site has indeed been bought by games rental outlet GameFly. More »

GameFly Prematurely Closes The Agency

Mike Fahey — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:40:00 EST

Several of you emailed us this morning, frightened after receiving email notifications from the game rental service GameFly that Sony Online Entertainment's MMO The Agency for the PlayStation 3 had been canceled by the manufacturer. Instead of panicking, we decided to contact the manufacturer to see what they had to say. More »

GameFly Wants to See Your Sucky Videos

Brian Crecente — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:00:00 EDT

Ever wanted to appear on television hawking something and not get paid to do it? Well, now's your chance. More »

How GameFly is Like Your Psycho Ex

Owen Good — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:00:00 EDT

I don't get these notices because, wisely, I didn't opt in for the ~~mailing list~~ spam like this guy at The -Minus World. And he acknowledges that he could just as easily unsubscribe, but it's much more fun to cast GameFly's obsessive spam engine in the role of psychotic stalky ex. Especially when you can send yourself a message that says "You better not be fucking Netflix" and take a screenshot of that to illustrate the point. Oh, not to mention: "We've Received: A Restraining Order." You can see the descent into madness in four well-done screen shots of his inbox. Gamefly Needs To Stop Acting Like A Psycho Ex-Girlfriend [The -Minus World] More »

GameFly Opens Austin Distribution Center

Mike Fahey — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:20:00 EDT

Video game rent-by-mail company GameFly has just announced the opening of a brand new distribution center in Austin Texas. The new center will handle mailing games in little orange envelopes to subscribers across Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Louisiana, and New Mexico. This is the third new center opened in the past 13 months, along with the Pittsburgh, PA and Tampa, FL locations. More »

Iron Man Game Rentals Beat Out GTA IV (Sorta)

Brian Crecente — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:00:00 EDT

Iron Man the movie wasn't the only Marvel enterprise to do well against GTA IV over the weekend, it looks like Iron Man the video game also held it's own, at least for rentals. More »

GameFly Trying Out Trade-In Program

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:00:12 EDT

We got word from GameFly subscriber and Kotaku reader Jeremiah who informs that he's one of the few asked to participate in the company's new trade-in program. Inventively named the GameFly Trade-In Program, gamers can send in their used games—shipping cost footed by you—to get credit for their account. More »

Gamefly's Fifth Annual Q Awards

Drew Crecente — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:00:00 EST

When I first read the words "Q Awards" I auto-magically thought of the late, great actor Desmond Llewelyn but was apparently way off track. These are Gamefly's version of the Oscars sans the cheesy dance routines. More »

GameFly Becomes Viable For Southeast

Mike Fahey — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:40:23 EST

Previously, having a membership to the GameFly mail-order game rental service and living in the Southeastern United States was pretty much a total waste of time. With games taking up to a week to ship from the Los Angeles or Pittsburgh distribution centers, I found myself much better off running to the local Blockbuster and praying my latest game selection was in stock. Now GameFly makes their service just a bit more viable for those of us in the Southeast with the opening of their new distribution center in Tampa Florida.

"We are continually optimizing our service to provide the best possible experience for our members," said Dave Hodess, CEO, GameFly. "The GameFly team was very strategic in selecting the location of the Tampa warehouse in order to ensure the most efficient delivery throughout the region."

I may just have to try the service out again now that they're that much closer to my Atlanta home. Of course Middle America is still screwed, but we promise to wave to your games as they pass by on their long, perilous journey. More »

Retailers All But Confirm Silent Hill Origins PS2 Port

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:20:00 EST

We first brought word last month that Konami's PSP original effort Silent Hill Origins would get the profit-maximizing PlayStation 2 port, like many PSP games before it. Today, we have more evidence. SCEA and Konami reps decided not to comment on the rumored game when we asked about it in December, but that doesn't stop retailers GameFly and Amazon from essentially confirming it, two listings dug up by Siliconera. Both companies now feature box art and release dates for the PS2 port, which is expected to ship in March. More »