unboxing

Hands On

KFC Madden NFL Box Unboxing And Review

1:00PM Owen Good | On the heels of 2008’s Guitar Hero: World Tour KFC Fully Loaded Box Meal, this year the purveyor of alleged poultry allegedly from the Bluegrass State has teamed up with EA Sports for the KFC Madden NFL Box. More »
Culture

Fairytale Fights The Elaborate Uboxening

4:40PM AJ Glasser | About the only thing I didn’t find in my elaborate collector’s edition of Fairytale Fights that I expected to find but didn’t is the severed head of a gnome. More »
Culture

NBA 2K10’s 10th Anniversary Edition

4:30PM Owen Good | Sports unboxings are kind of a rare breed; some version of the major game comes out every year. But this is the 10th Anniversary of 2K Sports’ NBA title, and they celebrate in style with this special edition. More »
News

A First Look At Guitar Hero: Van Halen

7:00AM Owen Good | Those who ordered Guitar Hero 5 in September and took advantage of the free Guitar Hero: Van Halen offer are starting to get their game in the mail, offering a peek at something that’s flown under the radar until now. More »

Holy Photocopiers! Guitar Praise Unboxed

9:20AM Stuart Houghton | Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet: praise Him with the psaltery and harp. Praise Him with the timbrel and dance: praise Him with stringed instruments and organs. Praise Him with a cheap plastic guitar with five coloured fret buttons and a whammy bar. (Psalm 150) MTV Multiplayer has taken delivery of Guitar Praise: Solid Rock — the Christian Rock-themed Guitar Hero knock-off — and performed a solemn unboxing ceremony. The box itself makes some pretty bold claims of UNPARALLELED GAMEPLAY, informing would-be players that they can SHRED the riffs, THUMP the bass and BLAST that solid Christian Rock. More »

Mario Kart Wii in the House

5:00AM Brian Crecente | The FedEx guy just dropped Mario Kart Wii off at my house. I think my son is going to faint when he comes home. The timing is perfect. It gives me something to play with him until Grand Theft Auto arrives and I disappear from his life for several weeks. “Mommy, is Daddy dead?” Good times, good times. Hit the jump for plenty of pictures of the wheel. SEXY! More »

GTA IV Special Edition In The Wild, Gets Unboxed Down Under

7:20AM Michael McWhertor | Grand Theft Auto IV is out in just one week, meaning we should soon be flooded with real-life camera phone snaps of the game arriving in stores, including finally getting a look at the special edition packaging. Oh wait! That just happened, as Australian retail employees have gone hog wild in the stock room, getting their mitts on the PlayStation 3 version of the special edition box set, exposing its innards for all of the internet to see. More »

A Box Full Of Corruption

8:30AM Mike Fahey | Today I am a man. I spent a good two years watching Crecente unbox happy things at his palatial mountaintop abode with envy in my heart, and now, thanks to convenient GC 07 scheduling, it is my turn. *opens box, takes picture* There you go! Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, a T-shirt several sizes too small for me, and a lapel pin, to symbolise…I dunno, the guy Samus took to the prom. I’ll fool around with the game a bit in my very limited free time this evening, and maybe post some impressions tomorrow when you are all too busy buying the game to read them. More »