Gamefly, an online video game rental company, filed for IPO on February 10, 2010, adding to the list of recent IPO filings that we track in our AP IPO Monitor. Gamefly offers a subscription-based online video game rental service for various game consoles including PlayStation3, PlayStation2, PSP, Xbox 360, Wii, GameCube, Nintendo DS, and Game Boy Advance. Similar to Netflix‘s(NASDAQ:NFLX) online movie rental service, Gamefly allows gamers to select games to rent in its online library and delivers the game via mail.
Here is a comparative summary of Gamefly’s and Netflix’s statistics on their IPO filing dates.