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Redbox Carrying Video Games Nationwide In June

Posted on Thursday, April 28 @ 14:15:59 Eastern by

What's your convenience store of choice? Where I used to live, 7-Eleven was the nearest store carrying Pop-Tarts and open at midnight. Now the nearest merchant of convenience is a Circle K. Neither of them had Redbox standing outside, though.

Now I'll have to go to the grocery store to rent a game in June. Redbox announced today that they'll begin carrying video games for rental at 21,000 locations nationwide. New video games will run you $2 a day, compared to $1 for DVDs and $1.50 for Blu-ray rentals.

It's true that video games have been available at some Redbox locations as a test for this nationwide push:

Redbox will increase consumers' access to video game rentals by leveraging our incredible technology and business model to keep rental prices low for consumers. With more than 21,000 redbox locations slated to feature video game rentals alongside movies this June, redbox will be the one-stop shop for entertainment.

While I agree that it'll be a lot easier to rent a game or movie when it's right in the front of the grocery store, I think the internet will continue to hold the title of "one-stop shop for entertainment". Do you have a Redbox near you? If you do, are you sticking with GameFly?
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  • 213EDD
    213EDD
    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Apr 28th, 2011 at 3:53 pm
    Lol great picture, ohh and now people might try to rob em
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  • TurinAlexander
    TurinAlexander
    Joined: Sep 2006
    Posted: Apr 28th, 2011 at 4:19 pm
    There's a Redbox in a couple of the local grocery stores. If their movie selection is any indication, you can expect to see the worst of the worst games in them.
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  • Klandathu
    Klandathu
    Joined: Apr 2008
    Posted: Apr 29th, 2011 at 1:02 am
    Unfortunately, TurinAlexander's probably right. There's no video store (or even a Redbox, for that matter) in the town I live in, so if I want to play a new game I either have to save up the cash for it, or bum it off of somebody else for a weekend. I tried Gamefly once, but the $15 a month on top of all the other crap I have to pay for gets kind of expensive after a while.
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  • MrrClean
    MrrClean
    Joined: Aug 2010
    Posted: Apr 29th, 2011 at 7:04 am
    I can't help but think that the whole rental movie/game/tv show industry is close to dead. You got Netflix, plus countless other legal and illegal websites for watching everthing you can think of off the Interweb, plus games you can get off the net... Plus, its a f*cking vending machine. What kind of selection could they have in there? Unless you like the total garbage that makes up mainstream entertainment these days, you'll probably have to look elsewhere for something worth watching.
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