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Redbox, the in-store movie and game rental kiosk, is adding foursquare support starting next week, the company tells Kotaku. More »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5663278&view=rss&microfeed=true As we were all expecting, rental chain Blockbuster has this morning filed for bankruptcy. You win this round, Netflix. More »
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Beleaguered rental chain Blockbuster's financial woes have gone from bad to really bad, with the LA Times reporting that the company will next month file for bankruptcy. 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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Strong users of rental services and resale or trade-in options, sports gamers justifiably feel blindsided by EA Sports' new "Online Pass," which requires a ton of once-standard game content to be activated by a one-use code. More »
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Game-trading outlet Goozex have released some charts revealing what their most popular titles of 2009 were on the service, and included are comprehensive charts for each major video game platform. More »
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DVD rental firm Redbox are in talks with a number of publishers over the possibility of adding video games to the company's range of DVD dispensing machines. More »
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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 »
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Screwing around with the sorting feature on the PSPgo, someone's found there's only one way to arrange games and folders - by their expiration date. Expiration? More »
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Hope you don't rely too much on your local Blockbuster for game rentals, because the company have announced plans to close up to 960 stores by the end of next year, Cnet reports. More »
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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 »
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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 »
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The folks at Blockbuster would really appreciate it if you'd pay your overdue late fees, renters. The company has warned it has "substantial doubt" about its ability to continue as a going concern. More »
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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 »
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Seven of the top ten most rented titles in 2008 were Xbox 360 games, the remaining three were Wii titles, according to a survey by Rentrak and Home Video Essentials. More »
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In June, the Belgian Entertainment Association (representing game publishers, of course) managed to convince Belgian authorities to outlaw game rentals. On the grounds that renting games made a sizeable dent in game sales. Part of that deal was that, from June, video stores couldn't buy any new games to rent out, but could keep on renting out the ones they had until December. Well, with December approaching, Belgian paper De Standaard has confirmed that, come December 1, Belgians won't be able to rent video games. At all. Bet the publishers are happy with that one! Pity about the, you know. Gamers. More »
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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 »
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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 »
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Videogame rental company GameFly seems to be taking another step to addressing one of the more common complaints about its service, longer mailing times. GameFly is now testing a distribution center on the east coast in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to better serve their customers. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=247903&view=rss&microfeed=true GameFly's latest top ten rental game requests list has a very distinct Xbox 360 flavor to it. Only two games on the list aren't for the Msoft next-gen console: NCAA Football 07 and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow both for the Playstation 2. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=187832&view=rss&microfeed=true Game rental company GameFly just added the Nintendo Wii and Playstation 3 to their inventory. Right now both their PS3 and Wii listings show 27 games each coming to the consoles, and their company, for rental. The Wii listing shows a November release date, while the PS3 listing, of course, shows a Nov. 17 release date. GameFly members can already start adding PS3 and Wii games to their rental que. What's your first choice for a Wii or PS3 rental? Brian Crecente More »
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