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Redbox experimenting with video game rentals

by Majed Athab on Jun 2nd 2009 1:00AM

Been to the grocery store lately? Ever noticed that giant red box outside the entrance that spits out DVD rentals for cheap? Well, guess what? Those things could be packing video games real soon, too. The company that owns those rental kiosks, the aptly-named Redbox, has just hired a new VP of video games to oversee game integration into its rental service.

According to Video Business, Redbox will be putting up two new types of machines: one solely dedicated to game rentals and the other a hybrid of games and movies. It appears Redbox will host mostly current-gen, home console games (Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3) and will even offer game trade-ins at the kiosks, as well. Currently, Redbox is still in the testing phase with only a few select cities participating in the market test.

[Thanks, Daniel P.!]

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Reader Comments (23)

Excellent idea. Blockbuster selection sucks.

I would love if Netflix or Gamefly got REDboxes and return stuff into that and trade it .

Haha, vice president of video games? Given to someone else? I've been grooming myself for that position for years with countless hours of dedicated practice :P

Redbox Rocks!

Great!

this looks really awesome!
I live in Australia and would love to see this here!

are details registered at all, i'd imagine a lot of people would steal the games/dvds etc

You can only rent with a credit/debit card which charges you a fee everyday ($1 a day for DVDs) for like 25 days and if you dont return it, its just yours to keep cuz they've already charged you like $25 for a DVD you'd pay $20 for normally.

Sounds good.

What's the price on DVDs, by the way?

Nevermind, I should read stuff. It's $1 per night for DVDs.

It better not be more than that for games, because games take longer to finish than a single night.

I don't think people would take the games back :P

Then their credit card is charged the amount of the game...

Yea they charge you 14.99 if you don't bring the movie back in 14 days. So you'll actually get charged 28.99 total.

Games will probably be like a 24.99 charge if you don't bring them back and probably $1.50 - $2.00 per day.

I could still see people from East Lancaster, CA finding someway to "hustle" the machine. Get a prepaid Visa card?

REDBOX rules. It's owned by McDonalds ya know. You cannot use prepaid cards in REDBOX machines.

So says Wikipedia:

In February 2009, all remaining shares of Redbox were purchased by Coinstar for $175 million from McDonald's Corporation, making Coinstar the sole owner. Prior to this, Coinstar and McDonald's each owned 47% of shares with various other parties owning the remaining 6%.

Thanks for the Info on Coinstar. I love these machines. There are three of 'em within minutes of my house.

If you don't return your movie in something like 25 days they actually let you keep it so it ends up costing 25 bucks, which is only 5 more than retail which i don't think is too bad.

they need to put blu ray in em

@ I DeX I,

Redbox is now owned by Coinstar =)

Coinstar has been going strong, solid stock. Smart move on their part.

Unless it's under $2 a day I think most rental stores will give you a much better price.

In Belgium (Europe) we could rent games for about 10 years already. But now some idiot started to complain about copyright issues and licensing. Now it's forbidding in Belgium to rent games :(

Love the redbox, I'd def. rent games from it for $1.

yaaay, we're catching up to Japan. Now put Asahi vending machines everywhere.

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