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Lollipop Chainsaw pre-orders let you dress up Juliet

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The mystery that is Lollipop Chainsaw is slowly being revealed, though really there isn’t too much to keep secret about a zombie beat’em up starring a former cheerleader. Still, as the release window draws near, Warner Bros. Interactive, Kadokawa Games and Grasshopper Manufacture have decided to get people excited by announcing three pre-order promotions for more »

Mass Effect 3 pre-orders net players extra equipment

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Mass Effect 3 comes out March 6, 2012, so it’s the perfect time for pre-order incentives to start showing up online. So voila! It turns out people who purchase from Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop or Walmart can get a little something extra with their purchase. In most cases, it’s just a little bit of DLC, more »

Indie Royale New Year’s Bundle offers blind pre-orders

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You know how stores sometimes set up grab bags on a shelf or counter with a random price on them, hoping the curious will take a chance and buy one? That’s what the Indie Royale is up to with its next bundle of games. It has started taking pre-orders for its four game New Year’s more »

Pre-order Final Fantasy XIII-2 at Toys R Us, save $15

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When pre-order promotions for Final Fantasy XIII-2 were announced, Toys R Us was left out. Amazon pre-orders net players a boss battle against Omega, who can then join Serah and Noel’s party. If you pre-order from Best Buy, you get the Final Fantasy XIII – Episode i – novel. GameStop pre-orders come with a free more »

True Jurassic Park fans need this Deluxe Edition

We know pre-orders for Jurassic Park: The Game on Xbox 360 from GameStop comes with a carnivorous little avatar, but PC and Mac gamers have the opportunity to get something much cooler. Pre-orders for Jurassic Park: The Game Deluxe Edition are now live from the Telltale Games store. It’s $39.99 and comes with items big fans of the Jurassic Park franchise would love to have.

L.A. Noire OnLive pre-order throws some discounts your way

After gracing consoles for months, L.A. Noire will be released for PC on November 8. L.A. Noire will benefit from the PC’s much stronger hardware by having better graphics and 3D support. Of course if you don’t have a PC capable of running L.A. Noire to its highest potential, but you’d prefer to play on PC or Mac anyway, you can turn to OnLive to crack cases in the cloud. OnLive has a couple pre-order bonuses in place for the game and they both involve saving a you money towards your next purchase.

Afterfall: InSanity tries a different market approach with $1 preorders

When we think of pre-ordering games, we usually relate it to putting a small portion of money down to reserve a copy, then paying the full amount on launch day. Nicolas Games, the publisher of the upcoming PC game Afterfall: InSanity, is taking the concept of preorders and putting an enticing and charitable twist on it. The publisher is only asking $1 for preorders in the hope that 10 million digital copies of the game will be spoken for between now and November 24, 2011.

Let’s see what you can get for pre-ordering Final Fantasy XIII-2

You may have been burned by Final Fantasy XIII, since it wasn’t exactly the next generation Final Fantasy we all expected, but Square Enix wants people to give that particular entry another chance with Final Fantasy XIII-2. In fact, they’re trying to lure people in with some rather nice pre-order incentives. Well, two of the bonuses are nice. One’s rather anticlimactic.

The best item you can gets comes from preordering Final Fantasy XIII-2 at Amazon…

Get Resistance 3 with your PlayStation 3D Display at Walmart

So, you want a PlayStation 3D Display when it comes out on December 31, 2011 and you want Resistance 3 to come with it, but for some reason you don’t want to get it through Amazon or GameStop. Well, there’s now another option. Walmart is going to carry the bundle too, at a price of $499.96, and there’s a way to get Resistance 3 with it there too…

Sink your teeth into The Baconing at the end of August

If you’re dying for the deliciousness bound to accompany The Baconing, you won’t have to wait long. By next week, you’ll be savoring the sweet delights of fighting tons of ridiculous enemies while attempting to help Deathspank save the world from evil by tossing pretty bad stuff into the legendary Fires of Bacon. Yes, it will be a rowsing adventure when the $14.99/1,200 Microsoft Point game is released on the PlayStation Store on August 30, 2011 and on both Xbox Live Arcade, Steam and the Mac App Store. Yes, the PS3 gets one day of exclusivity…