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After nearly two years of testing video game rentals in its ubiquitous crimson movie rental machines, Redbox is ready to take its game national, offering game rentals at more than 21,000 locations nationwide starting June 17. More »
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The kiosk-rental service Redbox began offering $2-a-day game rentals at 150 locations in Nevada, North Carolina and Texas last weekend, but the selection was disappointing to analysts examining the offerings. More »
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E-Play, the company providing kiosks for used game trade-in pilot programs has suspended operations, ending Best Buy and Walmart's short-lived experiment in the used games business. More »
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News of retail giant Best Buy entering the used game market with automated trade-in kiosks failed to leave video game speciaty chain GameStop quaking in it's boots. More »
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Electronics retailer Best Buy is stepping on a few GameStop toes in Texas this week, using the state as a test bed for game trade-in kiosks and used game sales. More »
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Wal-Mart has teamed up with kiosk company e-Play to test automated video game trade-in kiosks in several store locations throughout the Northeastern United States. More »
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Nick Brutal over at Destructoid had a lovely conversation with a Sony rep this past Christmas Eve at a local EB Games. Seems the PS3 kiosk at the store had been locking up regularly since it arrived, and Mr. Brutal there decided to ask the rep why. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=224527&view=rss&microfeed=true Destructoid's Robert Summa, surely en route to scope out Tickle Me Extreme Elmo's to shill on eBay this holiday season, got some footage and photo snaps of the freshly installed PlayStation 3 kiosk at the flagship Toys "R" Us in Times Square. The above video shows that the kiosks are equipped with (at the very least) a Motorstorm demo, but not all are currently operational. Check the D for photos not nearly as artifacted as that YouTube clip. More »
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Earlier, we reported that stores like EB and Gamespot were likely to use credit card deposits to ensure no punk ass kid wandered off with the Wiimote. Now, Nintendo's weighing in on how it'll be handled. More »
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Well, hello there! Did you wake up this morning, throw open your curtains upon a blustering, gray dawn sky, hear a far off starling emit a lamentful wail very much like the death croak of a small baby and think to yourself, "Welp, time to slit the old wrists?" More »
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At the newly opened Bic Camera in Kawasaki, Japan, this beastly PlayStation 3 display unit has been installed. This monster looks bigger than many Tokyo apartments we've visited. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=204450&view=rss&microfeed=true Although little, spastic children flailing Wii nunchucks around Wal-Mart seems like a recipe for disaster, Sony's not pulling any punches: part of Sony's launch strategy is to launch five times as many demo kiosks in stores as it did for the Playstation 2. More »
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We're doing our part in making sure every blunder is well known by the public and criticized appropriately. Case in point: After the Microsoft press event everyone was encouraged to go across the street to the Roosevelt hotel for some interaction with some of the upcoming titles. One minute this row of kiosks was functioning perfectly, the next second they were all dead and the staffers were puzzled—power outage, maybe?—good thing this happened at the press event and not on the show floor. I would hate to anger mobs of Microsoft fanboys. More »
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