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PC

Pimp Out Team Fortress 2 With Some Saints Row Preorder Bling

If you’d like a free insane costume for the Heavy in Team Fortress 2, you have about two days to pick it up. It also helps if you want Saints Row :The Third on PC, as that’s what you have to preorder to grab it.

November 10, 2011
News

Man Threatens To Blow-Up Store That Ran Out Of Modern Warfare 3

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my years as a video game consumer, it’s that terrorists threats don’t speed up restock. It’s a lesson Colorado’s Loromin Sar missed, allegedly threatening to bomb a Best Buy and shoot its employees for not having his copy of Modern Warfare 3 in stock.

October 14, 2011
News

GoldenEye’s Paintball Mode Is Preorder DLC Only, Even Though It’s On The Disc

GoldenEye’s “paintball” multiplayer mode, something won at a hard cost on the Nintendo 64 original, is a pre-order downloadable content exclusive, GiantBomb reports. It is not unlockable without a code from GameStop, which will be given out only for preorders of GoldenEye 007:Reloaded on PS3 and Xbox 360.

October 13, 2011
PC

There’s One Sure Way To Get Into The Tribes: Ascend Closed Beta

If you’re anything like Joel and I, you’d really like to get into next month’s closed beta for free-to-play online multiplayer shooter Tribes: Ascend. If camping out in front of Hi-Rez Studios until they let you in isn’t an option, you can always drop $US30 for the beta-guaranteed VIP preorder package.

October 11, 2011
PC

If 10 Million Preorder This Game For $1, Charity Loses

Indie developer Nicolas Games wants to make a splash with its upcoming third-person post-apocalyptic survival horror title Afterfall: Insanity, so it’s devised an ambitious preorder system in which gamers can purchase the entire game for one dollar, as long as 10 million people preorder.

August 26, 2011
News

Bonus NBA 2K12 Teams Don’t Require Preorder, Will Be In All Retail Copies

Correcting an earlier misconception we reported: NBA 2K12 will offer codes for two classic teams, the 1990-91 Golden State Warriors and the 2001-2002 Sacramento Kings. These codes will be printed and inserted into all retail copies of the game, and will be available through all retail outlets, but there will be a limited supply of them. Once the codes run out, the game will ship copies without them.

August 21, 2011
PC

EA Confirms Launch Copies Of Star Wars: The Old Republic Will Be Limited

In an effort to manage capacity on the day the MMO launches, Electronic Arts has capped the number of physical and digital copies of Star Wars: The Old Republic. The actual figure is unknown, but once it’s reached, no more will be sold until EA can add server capacity to accommodate more players.

July 30, 2011
News

The King Of Fighters XIII Preorders Come With Musical History

Not content to merely offer its usual single soundtrack CD, Atlus has gathered four discs of fighting music to entice players into putting their money down on The King of Fighters XIII.

July 10, 2011
In Real Life

Digital Art Book Is Dead Island’s Preorder Bonus

A preorder of Dead Island with Amazon will land buyers a digital art book filled with “game art and concept art of everything from the characters, that fat tourist dude with the camera, zombie types, environment concepts” and more, Deep Silver says.

June 18, 2011
In Real Life

The Forever Man

You’ve probably seen this 10-year-old Duke Nukem Forever preorder receipt before – perhaps even here. What you may not have known was that it belonged to Bill Stiernberg, a 27-year-old attorney who was recently interviewed for the game’s release this week.

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