Getting your hands on a game can be a tedious process. Browsing through countless pages, spending endless hours, and not being sure if you’ll actually get your hands on it can be a huge headache. That’s why GameFly is just what you need. It is a game rental service that rents games and delivers them directly to your door. It is very similar to Netflix except that it offers games and not movies. Takes all the stress and hassle out of driving to a rental location and finding out the game you want isn’t even available.
As mentioned, GameFly’s focus is game rental. They offer a wide variety of games, with over 7,000 titles to their credit. It is very easy to use their services. Just sign up and choose your plan and start renting! When you access their services, you can browse their selection of games; each game page has its own summary, reviews and even cheats.
The amazing part of all this is that you can rent game titles that you may have left for someone else and play them till you drop because GameFly doesn’t charge late fees. In fact, as long as your account is active, you can play the game for as long as you want and mail it back in the provided prepaid envelope once you’re done.
One of the biggest attractions is that the service offers games for major gaming consoles like Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, PlayStation 2, Wii and PS3. You can even rent game titles for handheld devices like the Nintendo DS and PlayStation PSP. Not bad, especially if you have storage issues. Just like Netflix, you can queue up your game rental list, after you’re done with one game the next one is sent to you.
The company was founded in 2002 by Sean Spector and Jung Suh. Like many gamers, they were frustrated with the lack of video game rental places. With so many games on the market to try, it was becoming a problem to just buy the games. When they both realized they could rent game titles on their own, they teamed up with another founding member, Toby Lenk, to form GameFly. With initially 6,000 game titles and four distribution centers in California, Pittsburgh, Tampa and Austin, they plan to open another distribution center in Seattle this year. The company later also acquired news and gaming site Shacknews and download site FileShack, which will give them a broader audience to reach.