Bungie’s original vision for the Chief.

Gamefly, the gamer’s equivalent of Netflix, is boasting new lightening fast shipping times with the announcement of their new Pittsburgh shipping location. They are also promising more shipping locations in the future. This remedies what many felt was Gamefly’s Achilles heel: the long turn around time spent staring at your mailbox waiting for your next game of choice to arrive from their lone shipping location in California.

For anyone who has never used Gamefly or Netflix, here’s how it works:

1. You make a ranked list (or queue) of your most desired games.

2. Based on what they have in stock at that time, they send you the game or games highest on your list.

3. You play them for as long as you want and then send them back for the next ones on your list.

4. You can rearrange your list at anytime and you pay by the month.

In the end, it was having to wait upwards of a week to get a new game mailed from southern California to New York City that killed Gamefly for me. Otherwise it was an amazing service and updating your game queue with their deep library was addicting. I mean where else are you going to find a copy of Beyond Good & Evil or Pride FC for rent? Definitely not at Blockbuster.

For any previous subscribers that, like me, used the service and then strayed from the pack, they are offering two months for the price of one to lure you back. Pretty sweet deal now that I won’t grow a full beard in the time it takes me to get a new game.

Tags: Gamefly, Netflix

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4 Comments » SEMINOLE on October 25, 2007 9:16 pm This is old news isn’t it? I mean wasn’t this announced or at least reported on several websites like 6 months ago? jonathan on October 25, 2007 9:22 pm its informative for people who knew about gamefly and people who didn’t. if you knew about it then you should know that you can sign back up this month only and get a month for free. peter pan on March 31, 2009 4:05 pm there should be a gamfly in west palm beach man they would get a lot of customers ass on March 31, 2009 4:06 pm shut the fuck up bitch RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL Comment Now Note: Commenting on Ripten does not currently require registration, however to be eligible for contests on the site, you must be a registered user. Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website Commenting Rules: No hate speech allowed. If you must argue, please debate intelligently. Comments containing selected keywords or outbound links will be put into moderation to help prevent spam. Ripten reserves the right to delete comments and ban anyone who doesn't follow the rules. Thanks. Notify me of followup comments Tired of the Goomba? Upload your own custom comment avatar.