GameFly is best known as the video game industry’s alternative to Netflix – it’s a service that lets you rent games for your video game console, mailing them back once you’re done, in return for a monthly subscription fee. Now the company has announced plans to offer Mac and PC games for sale, via download.

The service will be paired with an online digital store that will enable subscribers to manage their Gamefly rentals. Non-subscribers will also be able to use it, with services including pre-orders for new games and the ability to buy used games. It will also include game news and info sourced from Shacknews.com, another service owned by GameFly Media.

The service is not entirely unexpected; GameFly acquired Mac/PC game download service Direct2Drive from IGN Entertainment earlier this year.

GameFly expects to launch a closed beta for the new service in early September, with a public launch in the US and UK planned in time for the holiday season.