Blockbuster expands game offerings

THE TRANSFORMERS GAME!? WHAT THE HELL MAN!?

the blockbuster near where i live, had ten grand theft autos to rent lol

finally, they implement my advice :)... a little late.. but.. hey.. better than none..

I just want to know when blockbuster are going to start renting wii games in the uk. Blockbuster is rubbish in the uk. It only rents 360 games and a very small amount of ps3 games. My local one was close to closure a few months ago.

cool hope not as much shovleware in the wii section and that they actually start stocking good games *coughnomoreheroscough*

Of course ppl rent video games...it's perfect for games like Condemned 2 where you just want to beat the single player game and return it. You only spend $10 instead of the $60 purchase price and you can even have it as long as you need at Blockbuster!

People still rent video games?

OK;THAT IS SO COOL;I AM GOING TO L.A COMING MONTH AND I WILL CHECK IT OUT;

very nice that they will have more games for rent, but every time i rent something from them, the disc is scratched, dirty, just gross sometimes.

I haven't rented games since the N64/PlayStation era.

I will never rent at Blockbuster again out of principle, since their lack of widescreen support for DVD movie rentals was frankly, disgusting, for a long time.Netflix is more convenient as is Gamefly anyhow so i'm not too impressed.I never found their game rental selection to be too bad, never too horrible but far from great or anything.Movies on the other hand, always dissapointing, hard to find a lot of the catalog titles or the proper special editions for them, but i usually buy those anyway.

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Why do people say that netflix is killing them? It is actually the other way around, ever since they started that whole trade at the store option and netflix got caught profiling renters (delaying shipping if you were a "heavy renter") the subscriptions for blockbusters online rentals went up.

i do get most of my games from bb but sometimes i can't pre-order stuff at bb but i can at gamestop which can be a drag at times.

While the PS3 bundle is bunk, the fact that Gamestop has some competition is a welcome change. I still wish there were more 'Mom&Pop' type gaming stores/rentals around. I'm really burnt out on the 'machine'. Corporations usually offer the same thing at every location. These chains also have a bad tendency to push crappy titles and games with huge marketing budgets. Meanwhile a cool niche game can rarely be found. I like some big name games - but some niche stuff would be nice, too.

good their finally gunna have sum more games up 4 rent

Hopefully Blockbuster will provide the much needed competition with the GameStop monopoly.

It's always nice to have a decent selection of games to rent. Hopefully if Blockbuster spices up their game selection, the thought of renting games does sound appealing.

Hah. The Blockbuster in my area is officially out of competition. The only thing near that does video games is the awesome LAN Center right next door, and that place isn't going anytime soon. This week the Hollywood right next to Blockbuster and the LAN place closed down. Got awesome deals. 12 boxes of candy for $2, and like five movies for $5, decent movies at that. I personally don't go to Blockbuster anymore. The one in my area stocks crap games mostly, none of the good stuff. That, and I don't have any next-gen stuff, and Blockbuster's smartly retracting their old gen items. I went to Gamefly, which still has a very nice selection of PS2 and Xbox games. Been happy ever since.

my blockbuster rents games for $8.47 after tax, new system games are 5 days, older and handhelds are a week (ds games rent for $5.29), and you get a 7 day grace period before we charge you anything else. keep the game 7-10 days past the due date, and it charges to your account for the full new price (new system games have to be secured with a credit card, so if you keep a ps3/360/wii game, it charges straight to your card). but THEN, you have 30 days from the day it sells to bring it back before it's permanently yours, bring it back in those 30 days and you only pay $1.25. so you could keep a game a day shy of a month and a half and only pay $1.25 on it. so whoever's whining about blockbuster late fees needs to get reacquainted with the "no late fees" policy...

Blockbuster needs to die already. They have been limping along for years now.

Good. The more choices there are, the better.

great for Blockbuster. Gaming can help save them as a company.

Blockbuster is finally getting back on track.

I miss mom and pop video stores.

that ps3 bundle is wack!!!!! no psp coverage man thats wack too

No PC or PSP. That's an honest mistake in, in my opinion. I think that these two gamers have more than enough fans to justify those sections.

I'm with you about gamefly, however, I don't know if it's like this where you are, but the blockbusters here no longer have late fees. and it's about 8 bucks for 5 days rental.

chill, gamefly still is better though. blockbusters late fesws are mad expensive, and it costs like 10 bucks for a weeks rental

Damn Blockbuster!!! Why oh Why do you do this now you could have done this before i got gamefly

A good deal, but a deal on the 40GB model? If they want to sell they should make the deal with a 80GB PS3.

When Netflix gets into the gaming industry, blockbuster will have to shut down.

omg blockbuster is actually doing something good for once... they havent been the same in like 10 years. ..

they saw the grip that gamestop has and they are trying to takeover. its a good thing. if they got better deals ill go.

i work for blockbuster, we just got our display up for all this stuff last week. we had a PS3 60GB bundle when HDDVD first died, and it was a way better deal (motorstorm, surf's up blu ray, 20 week rental card, and the other stuff). we had 3 wiis and we've already sold all of them, it's great. they're starting to turn it around, we got around 30 sale copies of GTA4 for 360, around 20 for PS3, then about 30 rental and 10 rental respectively. and now we're doing preorders too, on a crapload of games. it's funny, we have a sheet saying we're going to be taking preorders soon for GH4 and rock band 2, even if they haven't been announced. maybe blockbuster is starting to get a little more insider info! oh, and it's true, we do overstock junk games. we had like 20 copies of viking, we always get like 40 copies of the crappier sports titles, whereas halo 3 we got about 10 sale copies and about 8 rental copies. oh, and we still have about 20 rental copies of GH3, and 30+ of frontlines. but hey, we don't place the orders, blockbuster decides what they're gonna give us.

I go to Blockbuster now that they give more back in trade-ins and their prices are usually lower. I normally don't like them, but I hope this finally offers some competition to Gamestop.

This is great news.

Yeah, the store I work in is probably the best stocked in the area. We always have the new games for sale and we're dedicating a lot of floor space for games. You should see the GTAIV section on the wall :D . Now we just need the word out as we do some pretty snazzy deals on game pre-orders now. And I know some people will complain about the prices but Blockbuster sells games at the market price, no mark-up.

Game Rush... sounds like a rip-off of Hollywood Video's Game Crazy. Game Crazy is the bomb, or was until it was torn down (the one by me anyway).

I can't even find a Blockbuster where I live.

Blockbuster's are always understored with games. They never have enough, and the ones around me have enitire shelves dedicated to piece of **** games that no one would want to rent.

blockbuster had its advantage awhile back when they rented consoles, games, etc., bu they lost there ground when focus was placed on movie rentals. (not so smart move)...There selection in rentals was very very limited...but things will change (hopefully). cheaper rentals will def be a plus. now their bid for Circuit City makes a lot of sense...if this happens, I'm all for it...competition is always a good thing. Besides expanding, there selection of video games will expand and if trade-ins are offered, it will give GameStop an incentive to offer more for used games (lets face it...their trade-in value of a game is a rip off...buy it from us anywhere from $8-$15, then selling it $5 less a new one...wat a joke!)

"I got my game system at Blockbuster!" See that just dosn't sound right.

The 4 or 5 blockbusters near my house are great except for the fact that they never have enough copies of ps3 games, yet I know thats not the employees fault. They have gone out of there way to help me get a game more then once.

The PS3 deal is a jipp. They charge people $500 for a 40GB system and tack on games and movies that very few actually want. Even 'if' I planned on getting a PS3, I'd pass on Blockbuster's offer.

I don't know why people hate on blockbuster. The two locations I go to regularly by my house are both staffed by helpful, nice people and they always have things going on like guitar hero contests, etc. Not to mention, their online service is great. I have friends who use netflix who ask me to rent movies for them that are available through blockbuster, but not netflix. Then there's the whole turning in your online movies directly to the store for a free rental, without having to wait 3 days for the mail turnaround. I personally don't rent video games or buy movies or video games from blockbuster so I don't know how they rate that way. They do seem to have a decent selection of rentable games, but again, I don't rent. If there's a game I want to play I'll either borrow it from one of my friends or wait a few months and pick it up used.

You sure don't get much for the extra hundred bucks. They couldn't include an extra controller in the bundle? Do they at least come with a dual shock standard? It's really a pretty shoddy deal.

family video > blockbuster

I'm glad the one by me went belly up. Now can rent else where.

Blockbuster's movie rental prices are bad enough. On top of that the one near me has like 2 Wii games available to rent. I wish Hollywood Video wasn't closing:(