Redbox Takes a Mild Shot at Xbox One, PS4 Over Used-Game Concerns
While the rent-by-mail service GameFly
Will Xbox One Ruin GameFly? GameFly Won't Say.
The video game industry has declared war against used games, and one of the biggest casualties might be GameFly, the video game by-mail rental service.
GameFly Prevails Against Postal Service Once Again, If Anyone's Still…
In court today, GameFly triumphed once more in its seemingly never-ending fight against the U.S. Postal Service, which GameFly alleges has shown favoritism in how it sorts Netflix mail going all the way back a time when people actually rented movies by mail.
Writer Rumble Lets You Beat Fools Up in a Spelling Bee Deathmatch
A while back, Gamefly announced that they'd be getting into the game publishing business. Writer Rumble is the first game out of the gate and it turns out to be a surprisingly fun affair.
Renting? Pfft. GameFly’s Going to Publish Games Now
GameFly's made some interesting moves in the last few months. They jumped into the digital distribution space last year, offering games for streaming in addition to their physical mail rentals. While that moved GameFly's overall offering closer to that of Steam, they still relied on publishers to supply their…
GameFly Says People Wanted Batman More than Modern Warfare 3 or Skyrim
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
GameFly Launches All-You-Can-Eat Digital Download Service for PC Games …
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.
GameFly Sweetens the Pot with PC Game Downloads
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.
GameFly Opens Seattle Distribution Center, Alaska Rejoices
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.
Redbox Game Rentals Are Live
Starting Friday the denizens of grocery stores, Walmarts and gas stations nationwide can quickly rent video games from kiosks at $2 a day.
Report Says GameFly Picking Up Digital Distribution Service
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.
Gamefly Triumphs in Postal Service Dispute
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.
GameFly Implies It'd Double Monthly Profits If It Got the Netflix…
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…
Redbox Takes Video Game Rentals Nationwide
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
Signs Point To NBA Jam On Disc [Updated]
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.
Blockbuster Rolls Out Games-By-Mail Nationwide
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.
Atari Reviving Centipede, Star Raiders Too?
Earlier this week, Atari revealed an unexpected retro-revival, a new game based on the original Haunted House
Your Fourth Spider-Man From Shattered Dimensions Is...
...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.
Netflix Disses Games-By-Mail, Old Games
Blockbuster's been toying with games-by-mail in select markets
Blockbuster Online Game Rentals Head To Seattle
After successfully launching the pilot program in Cleveland, Ohio, Blockbuster Video's Gamefly-challenging Games By Mail rental service expands into the Seattle area.
Gamefly App Lets You Carry Community, Controls With You
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.
Konami Brings First DSi-only Game Monster Finder To America
Alpha Unit's Monster Finder, the first Nintendo DSi-only retail game announced
Postman Swipes 2,200 Gamefly Games
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.
GameFly Filing Shows Netflix-Only Mail Slots
The slapfight between GameFly and the U.S. Postal Service
Kiosk Chain Offering $2 Game Rentals
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.
Square Enix Says Star Ocean PS3 Listing "An Error"
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.
Game Play, Used Game Sales Rocket During Recession
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.
GameFly Pays First Class Postage For Second Class Treatment
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.
GameFly Tests Your Game Knowledge With GameAnswers.com
GameFly has just launched GameAnswers.com, a website that allows gamers to share their knowledge of the industry and judge by their peers.