Special editions are pretty cool, we’ll admit. But we think game companies should also provide sucky editions, too — broken boxes, buggy games, limited edition used pieces of QA tester gum. Y’know, something especially crappy.
News Blips:
• Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition is excessively enlightening. If you remember from a few days ago, Modern Warfare 2 is actually a Call of Duty game. That means publisher Activision Blizzard is going to pimp this war game hard. How hard? Well, you can choose three different versions of the game: 1) Bare bones retail copy, 2) Hardened Edition with a metal case and art book, and 3) The ridiculous Prestige Edition that comes with working night vision goggles. Perfect for night stalking. Not that we know anything about that. Ahem. [Kotaku]
• 2K to Big Daddy: “Are we there yet?” Big Daddy: “URRGHH!” Sorry, kiddos — BioShock 2 has been delayed until 2010. [Shacknews]
• Videogame being made to coincide with a movie — who’d thunk it? It appears as though developer Double Helix (currently making Front Mission Evolved for publisher Square Enix) will be creating a Green Lantern game to accompany the movie that’s currently slated to film soon. This is a brilliant idea. Seriously, more publishers should really think about doing this. [GamesBeat]
• Nintendo reminds itself to thank fanboys via collectible calendar. Club Nintendo, the rewards program for purchasing Nintendo products, has unveiled the free (well, technically) stuff you can get for buying tons of crap. Gold members get a 2010 calendar, while Platinum members can choose between a Mario hat or a code to play against Little Mac’s bike-stealing trainer Doc Louis in Punch-Out!! Wii. While cheapskates like us get an unlimited edition of loneliness. Sigh… [Joystiq]
Hit the jump for some video blips, including a look at the bad guys of Batman: Arkham Asylum, old-school fantasy platforming in Trine, Ms. Pac-Man is a whore, and…more.
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