* No Free Trial (at this time)
* Free delivery and return
* No due dates or late fees
* Games for PS3, PS2, Xbox360, Xbox, Wii, Gamecube, DS, PSP, and PSP movies.
* Parental Controls for your family
* Buy games you want to keep
* 2X Speed option after 90 days of membership
Gamemine.com is an up and coming service that continues to make improvements that make this a serious contender in the game rental market. Here’s a breakdown of their service:
When you sign up with Gamemine, you are prompted to fill up your queue (which they call your “minelist”) with your desired games. As a game becomes available it will be shipped to you and once you return it you receive the next game in your queue. Your very first game is sent with a delivery confirmation from USPS and only when the post office confirms that you actually received the game will your credit card be charged for the 1st month of service (The benefit here is that you are not paying and waiting on your first game)
After you have been a customer for 3 months your account gets upgraded to the 2x speed option, which means that you can have your next game mailed out as soon as your last game is put in the mail. This significantly reduces your waiting time for games. Gamemine claims that their 2x speed delivery system is twice as fast as any other game rental service.
Gamemine’s website is very user-friendly and games are broken out into browse-able categories that you can sort by things like console, game title, release date, publisher and more. They have a real decent selection of over 4000 titles and growing fast. At the top of each category page they feature the most popular games for that category and below each individual game you will see other recommendations i.e. “You Might Also Like”. This is just a handy feature to stay on top of new releases or games that you might not have heard about.
Gamemine is one of the few services that does offer parental control features which enable parents to block unwanted games by rating or genre. With this feature it’s really easy to keep your kids playing games appropriate for their age range. Gamemine also offers the you the ability to rent movies in PSP format. The selection of titles isn’t massive but a number of the big ones.
It’s not surprising that this company is really growing their customer base as it delivers really decent service at a good price.
