; 14 years ago 2002 04 15 founders david hodess ceo & president sean spector co founder & vp of business development and marketing jung suh co founder & vp of content and strategic alliances headquarters los angeles california u.s. website gamefly.com gamefly is an american online video game rental subscription service that specializes in providing games for game consoles and handheld game consoles such as gamecube xbox playstation 2 playstation 3 wii xbox 360 playstation 4 wii u xbox one game boy advance ds and 3ds . the business model of gamefly is similar to the dvd by mail subscription service netflix and blockbuster online . gamefly sends games to subscribers for a monthly fee . over 8 000 titles are available . contents 1 history 2 purchase of direct2drive 3 references 4 external links history edit in early 2002 sean spector and jung suh partnered with founding ceo toby lenk to start gamefly . gamefly later received venture capital funding from sequoia capital . 1 in february 2009 gamefly acquired the gaming news and community site shacknews along with its download and streaming video sites . 2 it was reported in february 2011 that gamefly had acquired mobygames . 3 despite filing plans in february 2010 for an initial public offering gamefly remains a privately owned company as of 2016 . 4 purchase of direct2drive edit in 2011 gamefly announced that they had acquired direct2drive an online distribution service previously owned by ign . direct2drive later merged with gamefly ; subscribers that had both d2d and gamefly accounts were migrated to a single account . shortly after the merger gamefly introduced a new gamefly client which combined the services previously offered by direct2drive and gamefly individually ; the client came out of beta on november 8 2012 and allows direct download and installation of pc games as well as the rental of games without visiting the gamefly website itself . references edit gamefly how it works . morris chris february 4 2009 . gamefly shacks up . forbes . retrieved 2009 02 04 . kyle orland 2011 02 07 . report mobygames acquired by gamefly media . gamasutra . retrieved 2013 11 14 . matt krantz 2013 04 10 . ask matt did gamefly ever go public . usa today . retrieved 2013 11 14 . external links edit official website v t e software distribution platforms and content delivery networks app store cloud gaming digital library online game store package manager software distribution streaming media active personal computer allmyapps amazon digital game store battle.net big fish games chrome web store desura digital river direct2drive dotemu gameagent gamehouse gamersgate gameshadow games for windows live gametap gog.com green man gaming humble store mac games arcade itch.io mac app store macupdate metaboli gamesplanet msn games origin playism playster pogo.com pokki steam ubuntu software center uplay wildtangent windows store zylom video game consoles gamefly nintendo eshop playstation now playstation store wii shop channel xbox games store xbox live arcade mobile amazon appstore appsfire apple app store aptoide blackberry world cydia f droid gamersgate getjar google play handango nintendo eshop samsung apps slideme opera mobile store playster ubuntu app store windows phone store arcade all.net nesicaxlive discontinued games for windows marketplace impulse intel appup jumboplay kazaa n gage nokia store onlive playnow arena stardock central triton windows marketplace windows marketplace for mobile yahoo games zune marketplace v t e cloud gaming active systems gaminganywhere steam in home streaming remote play ubitus gamecloud streammygame active services gamenow gamefly streaming gface kalydo playgiga playkey playstation now nvidia grid liquidsky turbo.net games discontinued services instantaction gaikai onlive big fish games playcast media systems g cluster category retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title gamefly & oldid 733013391 categories companies established in 2002online retailers of the united statesonline only retailers of video gamesvideo rental servicescompanies based in santa monica california2002 establishments in californiahidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 4 august 2016 at 19 44 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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