Modern Warfare 2 Tops GameFly’s Most Wanted

Video game rental service GameFly has released its annual list of “Most Wanted” games ahead of the holiday shopping season. Of the top 10 titles featured on the across all platforms list, seven have seen brisk retail sales and significant rental activity for GameFly. They include Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Halo 3: ODST, Borderlands, Dragon Age: Origins, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, and Madden NFL 10. Here are the top ten most wanted games according to GameFly subscribers:

1) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - XBOX 360, PS3

2) Batman: Arkham Asylum - XBOX 360, PS3

3) Assassin’s Creed 2 - XBOX 360, PS3, DS

4) Halo 3: ODST - XBOX 360

5) Borderlands - XBOX 360, PS3

6) Left 4 Dead 2 - XBOX 360

7) Dragon Age: Origins - XBOX 360, PS3

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves - PS3

9) Madden NFL 10 - XBOX 360, PS3, PSP, Wii, PS2

10) New Super Mario Bros. Wii - Wii

For more information on GameFly, check out www.gamefly.com.

GameFly’s GameCenter App now available on iTunes

Video game rental company GameFly has launched its GameCenter App on the App Store for free. The GameCenter App gives iPhone and iPod touch users access to information from GameFly on more than 5,000 video games across all major platforms including up-to-the minute news, videos, screenshots, release dates, user reviews, gameplay controls, cheats, codes and more.

The app also supports syncing with Facebook and Twitter accounts, allowing you to share information with friends (also sometimes known as spamming). GameCenter is free and available to all iPhone and iPod touch users. GameFly subscribers can use the app to manage their GameQ and member information from within the app, which is a given that i’m a-takin’.

The GameCenter App is available for free from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at itunes.apple.com. A walkthrough of the app can be seen after the break.

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Philly postal worker pleads to Gamefly theft charges

An ex-Philadelphia postal service worker stole 2,200 video games addressed to Philadelphia-area residents who rented them from the video game rental service, GameFly, according to a report in Philadelphia Daily News. Reginald Johnson, a 34 year old who worked as a mail-processing clerk used to unloaded mail from tractor-trailers at the Postal Service distribution center in Philadelphia.. used to. Apparently, while unloading some of those trucks, he loaded up on envelopes containing video games.

You may recall that GameFly complained about the postal service not delivering its game to customers. Well in some large metropolitan areas.. like Philadelphia, the inspector general began conducting investigation to see just what the hell was going on.

One such investigation that took place on Sept. 5 of this year - a surveillance operation of the Philadelphia center using test mailings caught Johnson in the act. According to the paper, federal agents tried to arrest Johnson later that day as he entered his SUV, but Johnson sped off and later crashed his vehicle. After apprehending Johnson, they agents found a bunch of incriminating evidence: 81 GameFly mailings in a duffel bag, an additional 79 GameFly mailings in a back pack, five copies of Wii Sports, 3 copies of Wii Fit, a PlayStation console (we assume the report refers to a PS3), game controllers and - most interesting of all - receipts from GameStop, where Johnson had apparently made a few sales. According to federal prosecutors, Johnson stole $86,000 worth of merchandise between April and September 2008.

Johnson plead guilty in federal district court yesterday and faces 12 to 18 months in prison - and some form of restitution for what he stole, no doubt. He’ll be sentenced on Jan. 13. No word on whether the GameStop that bought Johnson’s purloined packages returned any of them to GameFly.

GameFly gets Ponged

Online video game rental service GameFly.com, has launched a new Flash-based game web site called Ponged.com today that offers over 500 games spanning seven different genres, including action, strategy, shooters and more. Ponged.com allows players to play games full-screen and provides a “boss button,” which conceals game play from authority figures - perfect, apparently for dubbing off at work or school.

Ponged.com also brings Flash gaming to two major consoles by targeting games playable via the web browsers on the Wii and PS3. In addition to these features, Ponged members are able to find friends online, jump into a game that a friend is playing, and play while chatting in real time.

Prototype tops GameFly’s most popular list

Online game rental company GameFly has released its lists of the most popular games for the week ending June 8, 2009, revealing that many of the games announced last week at E3 are getting a decent amount of buzz. The GameFly Top 10 List reflects gamers’ choice from more than 6,000 titles for the Wii, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS and PSP consoles. It obviously doesn’t represent games that players are renting, but what “they want to play.” These lists are purely anecdotal, because we don’t know how the information is gathered from users. The most popular across all platforms can be found below:

Most Popular Games Cross-Platform:

1 Prototype PS3, Xbox 360 Action Adventure Activision
2 Red Faction: Guerilla PS3, Xbox 360 Shooter THQ
3 Infamous PS3 Action Adventure Sony Computer Entertainment
4 Ghostbusters PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS, PS2 Action Adventure Atari
5 UFC 2009 Undisputed PS3, Xbox 360 Fighting THQ
6 X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Uncaged Edition PS3, Xbox 360 Action Adventure Activision
7 Modern Warfare 2 PS3, Xbox 360, DS Shooter Activision
8 Left 4 Dead 2 Xbox 360 Shooter Electronic Arts
9 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PSP Games, PS2 Sports Electronic Arts
10 Assassin’s Creed 2 PS3, Xbox 360, DS Action Adventure Ubisoft

For platform, genre and ratings specific lists, hit the jump.

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GameFly Weekly Top Ten Rentals

What were the most popular games rented last week? Where can we go to get that information and what was the most popular across all platforms? For that information we go to GameFly. And according to GameFly, Wanted: Weapons of Fate was the most rented game for the week ending March 26. Warner Bros. Interactive entertainment’s game based on the movie about curving bullets and a tattooed woman addicted to adoption topped the all platforms and Xbox 360 rental charts, and landed at number two on the PS3 charts. Resident Evil 5 was also a popular rental for the week along with The Godfather 2 and Halo Wars.

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The Rundown: Feb. 17, 2009

Today we look at the Q Awards, Emergent’s fresh cash, Aspyr’s Treasure World and new Nirvana tracks for Rock Band 2 Wii tracks and a new Harvest Moon. Check it out after the break.

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