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If you thought spending $149.99 for a massive collector's edition is too much, what about folks like commenter Gemini-Phoenix, who feel compelled to purchase every limited collector's edition that comes out. Let's hear his desperate please to publishers in today's Speak Up on Kotaku. More »
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First 4 Figures follows-up its Metroid Prime 2: Echoes gunship with a gorgeous 12 inch replica of Samus' gunship from the original Metroid Prime, and it can be yours for only $300. More »
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Blockbuster's second Video Game Championship contest, for SNES and Genesis, ran nationwide in 1995. Stores had to destroy the cartridges after the contest. Someone made 100 reproductions to help completionists fill a gap in their collect. About 40 are left. More »
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XSEED Games know Lunar fans are used to getting more, and while the limited edition of Lunar: Silver Star Harmony doesn't get close to the lavish releases Working Designs gave us in the 90's, it's nothing to sneeze at. More »
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The PS2 has been out for a while now. Most of you probably have a few games for the system still lying around the house. Reader Syd doesn't have a few. He has a lot. More »
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A recent study commissioned by the Content Delivery and Storage Association (CDSA) and the Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) indicates that gamers are much more likely to save the DVD cases rather than store their disc somewhere else and throw the packaging away. They could have determined this by looking in any gamer's living room, but I suppose The NPD Group, who conducted the study, gets paid for hard numbers, so here they are. 88 percent of game owners store their games in their original packaging, with 8 percent claiming to save the discs in sleeves while storing the packaging, and a minuscule 5 percent saying that they throw the cases away. More interesting that those stats though is the reasoning behind them - 54 percent of gamers polled stated that they trade or sell their titles when they are done with them. No wonder GameStop is doing so well. The survey also unearthed a few interesting facts, such as the average size of a video game collection (48 titles) and the fact that 11 percent of video game households surveyed have unopened games in their collection. Hit the jump for the full results, and see how game collectors stack up against those filthy DVD collectors. More »
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The next millionaire to come out of the games industry will be the home furnishings genius who creates a way of holding and displaying all the special/collector's/exclusive/ultimate editions of games with their outsize, non-standard packaging and collectible figurines. More »
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McWhertor may have thought they were just phoning in the Transformers Movie game box art, but I knew they were just saving the big guns for the collector's edition packaging. You'll see. This puppy is going to be the end all and be all of collectors edition box art. The ultimate in fan service... More »
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I realize that this is already out, but for those of you who didn't get a chance to gawk out the collector's edition of Burning Crusade, here it is in all of its glory. How many went for this version as opposed to the cheaper, run of the mill version? Brian Crecente More »
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MTV's Stephen Totilo has a cool piece up on the lengths some retro Nintendo gamers will go to scratch their collectors itch. Some cart hounds buy and re-sell rare games on eBay, some sell pieces of wood struck by lighting—a missed oppotunity to become the nerd successor to Robert Redford's The Natural, I call it. More »
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