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Not entirely unlike the initiative that Walmart recently launched, Best Buy chief marketing officer Barry Judge has announced on his blog (via Gamasutra) that the retailer will be testing out used game sales by way of automated kiosks. Just bring your game to the store, insert it into the machine to be tested in order to assure it functions properly, and get your compensation. Simple.

Stores located in both Austin and Dallas, Texas will see the kiosks installed this week, some of which will also rent out games and movies. Judge didn’t detail whether the machines are being maintained internally or by an outside company like e-Play, who is handling the Walmart kiosks. Presumably e-Play has nothing to do with the Best Buy program, as these machines will immediately offer up a gift card for store credit rather than a delayed credit/debit card deposit that e-Play offers elsewhere.

In addition to buying used games, those same stores will, as you might expect, be testing the waters of used game sales.