Thieves steal 7,000 Wiis from a warehouse in Seattle [Update]

by Jessica Conditt on Dec 18th 2012 9:30PM

In the dead of night between Saturday and Sunday, thieves stole 7,000 Wiis from a Seattle Air Cargo warehouse, Seattle PI reported.

The thieves made off with 7,000 consoles, two 53-foot trailers and a box van from the warehouse, for an estimated haul of $2 million. The King County Sheriff's Office is looking into the theft. Not to say that we're professionally trained investigators here, but we would suggest officers keep an eye on Ebay. That's what we would do, at least.

Update: The consoles were, in fact, Wii Us, an officer told Kotaku. Our source at the Seattle PI and ABC News reported that the stolen consoles were Wiis, and Kotaku was not one of our original sources. Thank you for the kind tips, lovely, wonderful commenters.

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GameFly opening new distribution center in Seattle

by Alexander Sliwinski on Feb 3rd 2011 6:45PM

GameFly, the by-mail gaming rental service, will expand its operations this spring with a new distribution center in Seattle. A company representative informed Joystiq that the new location will be in addition to those already established in Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Tampa and Austin.

The company is currently going through the (arduously) long process of going public. We kinda miss the old days when tipsters broke to us the news about new distribution centers instead of "official" communiques. So, you know, if you want to do it for old times sake, let us know GameFly is opening up a Seattle center by hitting that "tip us" button in the upper right of your screen.

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