Gamefly Launches G-Box, A Touchscreen Video Game Rental Kiosk

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I totally didn’t see this one coming, but GameFly is trying their hand at kiosk video game rentals by installing touchscreen boxes at select 7-Elevens throughout Southern California. Unlike their core business, which requires a membership, the G-Box kiosk just requires a credit card and a burning desire for a video game at any given moment since rentals cost $2 a day; that’s twice the price of their intro membership. The G-Boxes – don’t even get me started on the name – will contains classics as well as recent releases for the Xbox 360, Wii and PS3.

Right now there are two locations that are ‘near me’, but I’m betting these are the only two in existence since this is probably a test run. If you happen to be near either one and would like to try it out, enter the following promo code for a free one day rental: ‘GBOXSEVEN’.

Locations:

6077 West Third St, Los Angeles, CA 90036 Map
11656 Wilshire Blvd, W. Los Angeles, CA 90025 Map

Update: It looks like they started rolling these out to college campuses in March.

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Grew up back East, got sick of the cold and headed West. Since I was small I have been pushing buttons - both electronic and human. With an insatiable need for tech I thought "why not start a blog focusing on technology, and use my dislikes and likes to post on gadgets."

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Great to here that Game Fly has introduced G-Box, video game rentals has become very simple process. After reading this article, every one come to know how easy and cost effective these services really are…
jesse

I was given this code for a free 1 day trial. GBOX37
Anthony

Gamefly and Netflix to the rescue… sort of. I have tried the Gamefly’s service ‘Gbox’ and it was okay. The case the game comes in will surely cost you more money if you have a hard time putting the game disc backing into the case.

Both are $2 bucks… same price of a Hollywood rental price.
Anthony

Here is another location of a GBOX.

1345 S. DIAMOND BAR
DIAMOND BAR, California
Steve

Do you know of any others in the Los Angeles area?
Steve

Do you know of any others in the Los Angeles area?
Farqwad

fu ck my life . com
this was my idea