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more about #rentals Karth is Ego Tripping: My interest is heightened. more » RichardP702: This machine was actually only for purchases not rentals. All of the games were regular retail prices i.e. $49.99 and $59.99. They had a 30 day return... more » NoBullet: unhappy with the way the company charges so little for rentals, as they feel it undermines actual DVD sales. Well how are rental stores like blockbus... more » Befitzero: My biggest bitch with red box is when you get a DVD that is scratched to hell by the idiots who rented it before you there is no way to take it back a... more » Torusan: Well, at $2 a day with the intention of only playing the games for a day or two, it truly makes a good "try before you buy" business model. I think t... more » wonderboy13: I've never seen one of the machines. Where are they usually found? How does it work? You put in 2 bucks and the machine spits out a DVD? How do you... more » hk458: $2 a day? A weekend rental alone matches half of a monthly GameFly subscription. But I guess it wouldn't be bad for a 6-8 hour game rental. more » JumpyJacks: "Studios like Fox, Universal and Warner have withdrawn from Redbox's kiosks in recent months, unhappy with the way the company charges so little for r... more » Foxstar is in love with Kotaku's two Brians.: They got a long way to go to match GameFly. more » Terrorsaur - Five Six: I think this is a great idea. Except, how long do you get to rent it for? A day? more » bobtheduck in Korea: You know, I've never gotten a broken disc from Gamefly. I've gotten about 3 or 4 broken discs from Netflix. I think they're freaking out over nothing... more » jayntampa: So, what they're saying is ... two post offices, out of tens of thousands of post offices, created slots for Netflix -- and this is seen as endemic pr... more » Ghede: Ohhhh shit. They just went from whining underdogs to people with a chance. Nice. (Although I still say their envelope design is shit.) more » infinitezero: this might be a little off topic but gamefly is not worth it in my opinion. i payed for a couple months and i only received one game for two months p... more » raresquare: My post office in new york has a dedicated Netflix slot. more » SuperTongue: Seeing as Gamefly packs a nifty cardboard protector, and Netflix doesn't, I'd agree that they get preferential treatment. If the games get broken in... more » Revolution_is_coming: Personally I hate Gamefly after my experiences with them. I was a loyal customer back when they first started but one day I physically walked my two g... more » Posthaus: Netflix are usually sorted out and dispatched to separately, and this was due to the long loose flap on Netflix envelopes which had a tendency of jam... more » EdwardWCross: Regarding the postal service, did you know that our taxes DON'T pay for the post office? I learned this from a postmaster we had to interview in a col... more » WhiteMåge is in fact a boy, damnit: Solution: Start your own postal service which kicks the ass of the shitty one we have now. more » -
#rentals
Redbox Closer To Rolling Out $2 Game Rentals
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 » -
#gamefly
GameFly Filing Shows Netflix-Only Mail Slots
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 » -
#speculation
Digital Rentals Built in to PSPgo?
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 » -
#rentals
Blockbuster Closing Up To 960 Stores
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 » -
#rentals
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. More » -
#surveysays
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. More » -
#thegreatestdepression
Blockbuster May Be Going Bust
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 » -
#rentals
GameFly In Kiosk Form
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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#rentals
Xbox 360 Dominates 2008 Game Rentals
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 »
