Something that has been helping my pile of video game stuff grow recently has been the number of promotional items sent to me by video game publishers.

I was fortunate enough to do free game reviews for a local paper awhile back, which inevitably got me a job there. A job I’ve now had for nearly four years.

While I spend most of my time juggling university and working as a sub-editor/designer/occasional writer, I have been able to build up a few contacts in the games industry. It’s nothing too serious, just a few guys from various companies who send me free games for review.

Thankfully I work within a team gives me the freedom to say whatever I want. So basically if I think a game is awful I have no qualms about telling the world about it.

Getting back to my original point, I do get sent promotional items now and then so I figured for this instalment of My video game junk I’d show you guys a few things I have lying around.



Along with a review copy of the game and a soundtrack sampler (which is wicked awesome yeah ... maybe), the friendly folk at THQ sent me an Xbox 360 face plate and a sun-keeper-out-thing for my sweet ass ride.



Here’s the sun thing all folded out. (note to self, make this caption more exciting before making story live)



For the release of Stuntman Ignition (which is actually a fun game!), they sent me this shirt. Out of all the video game shirts I own I can almost picture myself wearing this in public. Almost. (This is, of course, a joke as the only video game shirt I wear in public is my HIL-AR-IOUS “All your base” shirt)



This is the Stuntman Ignition face plate... but something is not quite right.



Trying to put this thing on my 360 was hard enough. Trying to get it off was near impossible. It felt way too tight, and in the end the little flap that covers the front USB ports snapped off. I was so mad I hit a nun. At least I think it was a nun. Well she was old anyway.


So there you have it. More of my junk.

Isn’t my life exciting!?

On an unrelated note one time I smashed a desk I found when I was walking home from a very drunken dinner. In the morning I found the desk and stared at it for a while and thought to myself “is this what my life has become?”, but not in a bad way. Well later that week I got drunk again and had a major accident when a trolley that I was riding around in crashed and threw me onto the hard sidewalk. There’s a lesson in there somewhere.

More updates later!