Bankrupt movie and video game rental chain Blockbuster has put itself up for sale. Cost to you is just $US290 million for the business.
As we were all expecting, US rental chain Blockbuster has this morning filed for bankruptcy. You win this round, Netflix.
Beleaguered rental chain Blockbuster’s financial woes have gone from bad to really bad, with the Los Angeles Times reporting that the company will next month file for bankruptcy. More »
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 spectre of death hovering over the company brief pause. More »
GameFly — the enormously successful rent-video-games-by-mail service — filed an official complaint yesterday with the Postal Regulatory Commission. More »
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.
Sometimes it seems the job description of a politician includes not having fun with things the kids like, because, well, think of the dignity of the office or something. P’shaw. Dallas’ mayor must have been thinking of the coolness of the office when he kicked off a 24-hour Guitar Hero III fund-raising marathon on Friday.
Mayor Tom Leppert, 53, made sweet sweet love to his main axe with “Hit Me With Your Best Shot,” craning the guitar neck up and grimacing dramatically. Sure he handed it off to his 11-year-old “personal Guitar Hero coach” Aaron Blackmon mid-song. But Leppert got it back to drop to his knees for the big finish.
So I ran out today to pick up Iron Man the video game, exciteable little fanboy that I am, and decided to purchase it at my local Blockbuster Video, to see how they were doing with the new retail push. They had one copy for the PlayStation 3 and one copy for the Xbox 360 available, and on a whim I chose the PS3 version, seeing as my poor system hadn’t been getting much attention since Hot Shots Golf last month. Upon getting the game home I hastily unwrapped it, only to discover that my PS3, which I have long considered the best of the three current consoles when it comes to reliability, would no longer accept any Blu-ray media. PS2 games work fine, and DVD’s, but PS3 games and blu-ray movies were a no go. I was completely crushed, and jonesin’ for some Iron Man, so I took the game back to Blockbuster, hoping they would show pity on me for buying a game I couldn’t play. They swapped out versions for free and I lived happily ever after!
Unfortunately I’m lying.
