@Dafub: Oooh Post an image of the big daddy miniature! It would be cool if we could get a thread going full of pictures of random collectors edition junk!
With the second-hand game market eating in to their profits, game companies are adding more and more lovely trinkets/useless rubbish to their pre-order deals to appeal the magpie eyes and collecting instincts of cheapskate gamers.
To date, I have not shelled out for a pre-order-super-ultimate-collectors –bonus-happy-smile edition of a game, but the odd nick-nacks they wheel out are fascinating:
TemptingAce Attorney investigations: Miles Edgeworth
A shiny white teacup, clearly aimed for the Spode or Wedgwood cross-over market. I’ll admit, as an avid tea-drinker I was drawn to this one, and had it been available outside of Japan, they probably would have had me.
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
'Peace Water' *Cringe*
Useless items with pun-tastic names. Who could resist the MGS jigsaw: ‘Love and Piece’, or the MGS aluminium water bottle: ‘Peace Water’.
The bobble head looked kind of nifty, and this is the kind of novelty that could sit on your desk without it being immediately obvious you are some kind of sci-fi-gamer-dork. Who they thought was ever going to use the metal lunchbox I have no idea.
Heavy Rain
Bombcast listeners will all be aware that Heavy Rain features a must-have piece of unfolded white paper. You too can live out your origami killer fantasies!
Quality Paper
What interesting pre-order junk have you come across?
@VinceNotVance: Scary is right! Even though all manner of people probably have lots of info about me in files, it sort of shatters the illusion of anonimity you feel when going online.
Its odd to think that if I died under suspicious circumstances the police would be pawing through my e-mails and Live activity. (although its sensible they should be allowed to do that)
Ever wondered exactly what personal info Microsoft keeps on you when you sign up to their services?
Well wonder no more, a leaked internal document from Microsoft reveals exactly what they keep on record.
If you signed up to Xbox live using a credit card, Microsoft keeps the following info on file: date of birth, name, e-mail address, physical address, telephone number, credit card number, type of credit card, credit card expiration, plus your Microsoft Passport and Xbox serial number.
Plus, for up to 180 days they hang on to: screen names, IP address, IP logs, billing info and email content.
Probably not much to worry about.
Unless, of course, you have a tendency to brag about your criminal exploits via e-mail or online generally. Law enforcement can subpoena any of this stuff.
@Geno: Well spotted! Escapist came to a similar conclusion. Unfortunately it looks like gamers dont go in to the book reading so much either. Although that could just mean we are more inclined to get our news from the internet rather than the traditional newspaper.
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