Well, that sure didn’t take long. After a trial run with trade-in kiosks and online services, Best Buy and Wal-Mart are throwing in the towel on the used game business. Both retailers were using the E-play service for the kiosks. E-play recently shut down operations and took Best Buy and Wal-Mart down as well.

Chris had a good experience using the Best Buy trade-in service, but I don’t think too many people were on board, which is why it’s now gone.

GameStop executives are wiping their asses with hundred dollar bills and swimming in rooms of gold coins over this news. Whether you consider them an evil empire or not, they’re still the only real game in town.