Lunar: Silver Star Harmony is an enhanced remake of Lunar: The Silver Star, coming to the PSP courtesy of XSEED Games in Q1 of 2010. While the game will retail for $29.99, $10 more will net players a special limited edition package containing a soundtrack CD and a set of 13 exclusive "bromide" collector cards featuring the girls of Lunar.

"As the definitive version of Lunar: The Silver Star with completely reworked graphics, a remastered soundtrack containing songs new and old, an enhanced battle system, and additional story elements never before revealed, Lunar: Silver Star Harmony deserved a special Limited Edition version to commemorate the rebirth of this beloved franchise," stated Jun Iwasaki, President of XSEED Games. "For fans of the previous iteration, we've built upon the English script from before to offer returning fans something new while keeping the heart of the original outstanding localization intact."

As I said, it's certainly not the cloth map, soundtrack CD, hardbound instruction manual and making of videos of Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete, but it'll do. They just don't make them like Working Designs anymore.

Syd - a collector who runs...The Personal Computer Museum- is on a bit of a PS2 bender at the moment, and flushed with pride, sent us this snap of his library. Over 1200 games. And Syd would like you all to know that number's not being padded with Greatest Hits variations; he only picks those up when they include worthwhile, additional content (like his Devil May Cry special edition).

For reference, his first game was the original Jak & Daxter in 2002, while the 1000th game was...Chicken Little: Ace in Action. Hey, you collect, you collect the good and the bad.

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.

Video Game and DVD Packaging Not Going Out with the Trash

Few Discs Are Thrown Away or Recycled

ENCINO, CA (October 28, 2008) … Rather than discarding video game and DVD packaging, consumers overwhelmingly store their video games and DVDs in their original cases according to a joint study commissioned by the Content Delivery and Storage Association (CDSA) and the Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) and conducted by The NPD Group. The study also found that when consumers no longer want to keep a particular video game or DVD ttitle, they rarely throw it away or recycle it, preferring instead to give it away or sell or trade it.

Eighty-nine percent of DVD owners and 88 percent of video game owners store their DVDs and video games in their original cases. Five percent of DVD owners and eight percent of video game owners store their discs in plastic sleeves but save the original cases. Only six percent of DVD owners and five percent of video game owners said they throw away or recycle the cases.

When they no longer want to own a title, 45 percent of DVD owners give the title to someone else, as will 24 percent of game owners. Fifty-four percent of video game owners will trade it in or sell it; the trade/sell rate is 27 percent for DVD owners. Twenty percent of DVD owners and 17 percent of game owners store the discs. Only two percent of DVD owners and four percent of video game owners recycle or throw the product away.

“In packaged home entertainment, consumers view the packaging cases as part of the product and not something to be tossed,” noted Bo Andersen, President and CEO of EMA. “The cases provide product protection, allow easy title identification, and carry the artwork that is integral to the consumer’s association with the title.”

“The issue of DVD cases being considered as packaging versus as a part of the product has been questioned by some in the industry and without consumer research we could not verify our beliefs that consumers consider the DVD case as part of the product,” commented Charles Van Horn, President of CDSA. “When almost 90 percent of DVD consumers state that they store their DVDs in the original case, they have verified that they consider the case a valuable part of the DVD product.”

Other findings in the study included:

* The average DVD household has 114 DVDs in its collection.
* The average video game collection has 48 titles.
* In the average DVD and video game households there is unwrapped product:
o 26% of the surveyed DVD households own some unopened DVDs.
o 11% of the surveyed video game households own some unopened games.

The NPD Group surveyed a pre-identified sample of DVD and video game purchasers who had purchased a DVD or video game in the past 6 months. The report is based on 557 qualified DVD respondents and 562 video game respondents.

The press release for the Red Faction: Guerilla Collector's Edition doesn't mention any outlandish stunt-packaging so at least you won't have to try and fit a box shaped like a helmet or a colonist's femur or something onto your games shelf. Small mercies.

For around $89 you can pick up a copy of the game (Xbox or PS3), plus an 'art' coffee table book, bonus DVD (probably a 'making of' or something) and a 5-inch poly resin Mining Walker statuette with 'pewter hand railings' (er, cool?)

Subject: THQ reveals the RED FACTION: GUERRILLA COLLECTOR'S EDITION
Importance: High

THQ reveals today the Red Faction: Guerrilla Collector’s Edition for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 Computer Entertainment System.

In stores early 2009, the Collector’s Edition includes:

- A copy of Red Faction: Guerrilla
- A 5 inch-tall mining walker figurine made by Gentle Giant Ltd. Each poly-resin figurine is hand-painted and features real pewter hand railings

- A bonus DVD (Xbox 360) / bonus Blu-Ray disc (PS3)
- Official art book

The Collector’s Edition has a suggested retail price of $89.99, and can be pre-ordered now through GameStop retail stores and the company’s official website: http://www.gamestop.com/

...or it could look like the hood of the 1987 paintless Nissan Sentra I had back in my late 20s when I worked the vinyl cutter at a sign shop...decals I later replaced with Bubbles the Powerpuff Girl before the transmission blew. At least it's a good bit nicer than the DS version covers, which just split the normal cover in half between the two games. I bet they were just too busy making us a damn fine Transformers game to worry about box art. Just gonna sit here, smile, and keep believing that.

As to what's included in the Cybertron Edition...no clue, but if the box doesn't transform into a robot then they've completely missed the point of all this. Michael Fahey

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

Those of you considering getting into the game of collecting games should read up. Despite sounding like a very glamorous existance of cataloguing your recent aquisitions and spending your early weekend mornings at flea markets and garage sales, keep in mind that a copy of the 1990 Nintendo World Championships is probably going to set you back over seven grand.

Look, you can't have everything. Sometimes you have to choose between owning a factory sealed copy of Stack Up for your R.O.B. and having a normal life. Michael McWhertor

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