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While The Darkness II doesn't hit store shelves until February 7, preordering now for a free upgrade to the limited edition would be good for your heart, and extremely bad for the hearts of your enemies. More »
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When Final Fantasy XIII-2 hits North American shores on January 31, GameStop, Best Buy, and Amazon customers that preordered the game will walk away with some pretty spiffy bonus items, but which is the most enticing? This time around it's not GameStop. More »
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Available as a preorder bonus at select retailers and EA's Origin service, the relatively unexciting Physical Warfare Pack gives us an excuse to look at more Battlefield 3, which is always good. More »
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If you're on the fence about picking up Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, these preorder bonuses might seal the deal. More »
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The host of Saints Row's top-rated reality show makes killing time fun with Professor Genki's Hyper Ordinary Preorder Pack, the perfect octopus-shooting, pedestrian-catapulting compliment to the Saints Row: The Third Platinum Edition. More »
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According to our own Stephen Totilo, we might be in for a pretty good Captain America experience when the movie tie-in game drops on July 19, but you won't get the ultimate Captain America experience unless you preorder from GameStop. More »
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Want to play as Resistance and Resistance 2 hero Nathan Hale in Resistance 3's online multiplayer? You'd better enjoy shopping at Best Buy. What other retailer-exclusive goodies has Sony got up its sleeves? More »
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Preorder Rockstar's L.A. Noire from GameStop and you get a thrilling homicide case. Preorder the game from Walmart and you're stuck on traffic duty. More »
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There isn't much of a crossover audience between a first-person like Team Fortress 2 and the online role-playing game Rift, but that could change now that a Steam preorder of the MMO scores players exclusive content for both games. More »
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Commenter Curly Haired Boy rages against retailer-exclusive bonus items in today's installment of Speak-Up on Kotaku. More »
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Why spend $60 on the plain vanilla version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution when you can get a box full of extra stuff for $70? Square Enix details the Augmented Edition and preorder bonuses for the upcoming action RPG sequel. More »
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Square Enix dropped us a line today to show off the wonderful preorder incentive for Kingdom Hearts Re: coded available at GameStop and Amazon.com. What is it? More »
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BioWare is upgrading copies of Dragon Age II preordered before January 11 to the Signature Edition, packed with $20 worth of downloadable content, a soundtrack, and an in-game armory. It's like a preorder bonus, only...okay, it's a preorder bonus. More »
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Who wants a Puma-branded DJ Hero 2 carrying bag? How about a hard shell turntable case stand, or a copy of the original DJ Hero? Where you pay decides what you'll be playing with when DJ Hero launches October 19. More »
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Now you can pretend you're about to die a horrible death by drowning upon a sinking ship with the Gamestop exclusive preorder watch for Aksys Games' DS thriller Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors. More »
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If you're going to play like Maxwell, you might as well look like Maxwell, with a pair of attractive plush headphones available to GameStop customers that preorder the adjective-infused Super Scribblenauts. More »
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Experience the origin of everyone's favorite vengeful god slayer on November 2 when God of War: Ghost of Sparta hits the PSP, with "the ultimate DLC pack" offered up as a sacrifice to preorder customers. More »
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Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood's line-up of sleek and deadly killers gets some serious bolstering by the armored Officer and the all-important tubby guy with a beard. Finally a character for me! More »
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Harmonix and MTV Games have revealed retailer-specific preorder bonuses for Rock Band 3, with GameStop customers scoring three free tunes when the game launches October 26, including New Order's techno anthem "Blue Monday." It's no "True Faith," but it'll do. More »
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Preorder Sonic Colors for the Nintendo DS or Wii from GameStop, and you get this hat. More »
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Japan's getting Shinji MIkami's sci-fi third-person shooter Vanquish on October 21? So what! In North America we're getting it a couple of days earlier, with a trio of deadly new weapons available to those who preorder from the right store. More »
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If Atlus' Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City for the Nintendo DS isn't pretty enough for you, check out Forests of Eternity, the preorder exclusive art book spanning the history of the series. It's much prettier than the game. More »
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If you want to look like a battle-hardened, Covenant-crushing space marine type, yet don't want people to forget how much you love to party, then GameStop has the Halo: Reach preorder incentive for you. More »
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Folks who spent up to $100 for War for Cybertron preorder codes on eBay are going to kick themselves, as a listing on the Xbox website for the game's first map pack indicates that all three preorder characters are included. More »
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Every bundle of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock that ships this fall will come with Activision's new removable wing guitar controller, but only by preordering at GameStop will you score the axe of power. More »
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Ninja Monkey and Sexy Robot? Those two word combinations alone are enough to get many onboard for Namco Bandai's Enslaved: Odyssey to the West when it ships this September, but which power-granting outfits you get depends on where you preorder. More »
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Think this New Vegas armor looks handsome? Then you'll want to preorder the game through Steam or Walmart to receive the Caravan Pack, one of four retailer-specific preorder bonuses for Fallout: New Vegas. More »
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It seems to me that you'd want to announce all of your retailer preorder exclusive items at the same time, to avoid shutting out one particular store, but here comes Jazz, ready to fight multiplayer battles for Best Buy customers. More »
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Bizarre Creations' combat-racer Blur is coming May 25, and your choice of preorder locations determines which ride you'll get early access to in online multiplayer, because everyone loves retailer-exclusive preorder bonuses, right? More »
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Transformers: War for Cybertron is all about exploring the original Cybertronian Wars through the eyes of reimagined first generation Transformers. Then who the hell is this Amazon preorder-exclusive multiplayer character? More »
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Crecente detailed several fine reasons to purchase Super Street Fighter IV. Capcom's GameStop-exclusive preorder bonus is not one of those, unless you have really cold thumbs. More »
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The results are in for Rockstar's choose your own Red Dead Redemption preorder outfit, but you're not getting your Deadly Assassin just by entering a code. This here's the Wild West, and you're gonna have to jump through some hoops. More »
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Remember back in November, when Capcom announced a Wesker skin as a GameStop preorder bonus for Lost Planet 2? Forget that. Now the company is giving GameStop preorder customers two exclusive underwater combat maps. What about Wesker? More »
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Real-time strategy fans who preorder Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II's Chaos Rising expansion online will score a free copy of Saints Row 2, which I'm sure makes sense to someone, somewhere. More »
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Shockwave is confounded by your impulsive, irrational excitement at his appearance as a preorder bonus multiplayer character for Transformers: War for Cybertron. More »
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What's black, white, and red all over and can't live in apartments where pets aren't allowed? It's noir mode in the Amazon-exclusive Shadow Pack preorder bonus for Dead to Rights: Retribution. Does Amazon's pack top GameStop's? More »
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PlayStation 3 owners who put their money down on BioShock 2 at Amazon will find themselves the proud owner of this excellent Big Daddy outfit for PlayStation Home. More »
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Nintendo gets your Pokémon collection started with these figures of Ho-Oh and Lugia, yours when you preorder Pokémon HeartGold or SoulSilver for the Nintendo DS. More »
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EA's Skate 3 might not come with a high tech plastic skateboard controller like its chief "competition," but putting money down on the sequel does earn you this nifty exclusive skate park. More »
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