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Game Mine Review
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Membership Costs Gamemine offers 3 different membership options with different payment options for each:
The 6 and 12 month prepay plans for each of the three subscriptions are currently being re-worked. Please visit GameMine.com for up to date pricing details. GameMine regularly have giveaways for their members.
Editor's Verdict:
As with most video game rental sites, when you sign up you are asked to fill up your queue (although here it's called a minelist) with games you would like to play. As games become available GameMine sends them out to you and you send them back when you want another. GameMine have recently introduced a very thoughtful billing procedure for new customers. When you sign up, they send your first game with a delivery confirmation via USPS. It's only when the post office confirms delivery of that game that GameMine charge your credit card and your first month of service starts. So you're not paying while you wait for your first game to arrive. Then, once you have been a customer for a period of 90 days, you receive the 2x Speed option on your account. This useful feature means that you can request that your next game is sent out as soon as your last game leaves your hands. Your last game and next game cross paths in the mail, thereby reducing your waiting time. In fact, according to GameMine, their 2x speed feature makes them twice as fast as any other service, even though they currently only have one distribution center in New Jersey. We hear that they are planning to open a second distribution center (this time in Florida) in time for the busy post-holiday video game rental rush. So turn-around time for rentals should be even faster. According to Game Mine, they are currently working out a contract with the US Military to provide rental gaming subscriptions to the Liberty Centers on bases throughout the world. This contract followed their title sponsorship of an all services event held in Pearl Harbor base in September 2008, during which they gave away t-shirts, consoles and games to the winners and participants. Game Mine are also currently partnered with a yet-to-be-named large appliance and electronics retailer. The GameMine service is being sold as part of their console bundles for Xbox, PS3 and Wii. Contracts with other stores are also in the pipeline. When you purchase console or accessory bundles from partner stores, you receive a free trial with GameMine.com: 60 days with console bundles; 30 days for accessory bundles. The GameMine website is nicely laid out and the games are all split into easy to browse categories. The design is also easy on the eye and the menu bars even change colour depending on which console you are browsing for. The fancy graphics does come at a cost however, as this certainly wasn't one of the fastest sites we have reviewed. The availability of titles does seem good though. We were happy to see lots of the new releases on PS3 and Xbox360 with a green "available" by their name. This may be due to an injection of cash in May 2008 when the company was taken over by a Florida-based company (Gamemine Direct, LLC) . There is also a feature which recommends other titles you might like, based on titles you are currently looking at. This is a great way to be informed about games that might have slipped under your radar. Speaking of radar, Game Mine is one of the few sites to offer a parental control feature which allows parents to exclude games by rating or by genre. So if you have willful youngsters, this should help you ensure that they are not playing over-18 games, like the latest installment of Grand Theft Auto. Another nice feature, offered by few other sites in this category, is the opportunity to rent movies in PSP format. This is always handy if you know you have a long journey coming up. The range of titles on offer isn't huge but does include some of the classics, such as Alien and Mad Max. More than enough to keep you entertained on a bus journey. With all these new features, it's not surprising that over the past six months, GameMine.com have increased their client base by 1500%. We hear that they are currently working on a new website for the company that incorporates not only the rental component, but also a free "gamer community" component where gamers can show off their accolades on each system. Whether they wish to display their login name and trophies for the PS3, or their Gamertag and Gamerscore for their Xbox 360, users will have the ability to design and personalize their community page with gaming thematic scores and pictures from their favorite games through an open source platform. So that's good news for you gamers...and extra work for us at No1Reviews.com, because we'll undoubtedly have have to re-re-review this category for the third time in the space of a year to keep up with GameMine's continuing developments! Click the button below to visit GameMine.com...
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