Mobile

Renting? Pfft. GameFly’s Going To Publish Games Now

GameFly’s made some interesting movies 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 pipelines with games. That’s going to change a bit, at least on the smartphone side.


May 15, 2012
In Real Life

Gamefly Trashes Gamestop In Their New Ad, Literally

Video game rental service GameFly takes one hell of a shot at video game retailer GameStop in this new commercial.


January 6, 2012
News

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 as the site’s GOTY, readers held their own damn awards and anointed Skyrim as their standout title for 2011.


August 10, 2011
PC

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 US, 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.


June 30, 2011
News

GameFly Opens Seattle Distribution Centre, 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 centre, forced to suffer longer-than-normal shipping times for their game rentals. Today GameFly says no more.


June 17, 2011
News

Redbox Game Rentals Are Live In The US

Starting on Friday, the denizens of grocery stores, Walmarts and petrol stations in the US can quickly rent video games from kiosks at $US2 a day.


May 23, 2011
PC

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.


April 21, 2011
News

Gamefly Triumphs In Postal Service Dispute

The US 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.


March 28, 2011
In Real Life

GameFly Implies It’d Double Monthly Profits If It Got The Netflix Postage Rate

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.


October 14, 2010

Signs Point To NBA Jam On Disc

GameFly has listed NBA Jam’s PS3 and 360 version for release on November 18, and while that’s most likely a placeholder date, the fact a rental service listing the game indicates it will be a retail disc release, not a download.