Video-game rental service Game Fly is looking to expand its gaming offerings, report USA Today.
The company will begin offering a new online client that incorporates direct downloading of more than 100 computer games along with its current 8,000 console titles available on disc. This new service will be available in time for the upcoming holiday season.
The computer game downloading feature follows the company’s acquisition three months ago of IGN’s PC download service Direct2Drive. That service continues to offer more than 1,500 PC and Macintosh games.
“Now Gamefly subscribers will have access to a library of PC catalog titles to play as often as they want and as long as long as they are a member,” says GameFly co-founder Sean Spector.
Subscribers will be able to download unlimited computer games — initially, only Windows PC games will be featured, Macintosh games will follow. “It’s kind of like a Spotify or Rhapsody or a Napster,” he says. “You have access to the content as long as you are a subscriber but when you are no longer a member, the content then disappears.”
While the PC game library will be surpass 100 titles initially, “that is going to grow,” he says. “We are in discussion with all the major publishers. You have the physical and now you are going to have access to the digital as well. GameFly subscribers will truly get a benefit for no extra cost.”
A closed beta trial of the new GameFly software begins next month.
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