Gamer Network, a UK based game web site collective, today announced a new project titled Gamer's Edition, which "creates premium collector's editions of cult games, enabling digital releases and indie games to offer the same physical special editions as big-budget PC and console titles."
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Because special edition boxes are awesome, and it shouldn't just be the Assassin's Creeds and Call of Duty games of the world that get the treatment. The project works simply: fancy versions of a cult titles are being developed, they just need to reach a certain number of pre-orders before they're made available (to cover the cost of production, I suppose)
Or to put it more bluntly: "Because physical items are expensive, with a lot of up-front costs, so it's only affordable to do this if enough people want it. If not enough people pledge, then it doesn't get made, and it doesn't cost anybody anything."
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"Gamer's Edition was set up to create awesome collector's editions for games that previously couldn't deliver them", said Jon Hicks, Head of Gamer's Edition. "We realised that digitally-distributed indie games were taking up almost as much of our gaming time as the megabucks triple-A stuff, but they didn't have much in the way of cooler toys or accessories because the developers don't have the time or the resources to create them".
First up is Dennaton's classic bit of the old ultra-violence, Hotline Miami and Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (out tomorrow, March 10). The physical version comes with a DVD of both titles, as well as Steam codes, the physical copy of the new 80 page Hotline Miami 2 comic (also available on Steam) and a whole bunch of cameo and postcards. The real jewels of the set, however, are the official 50 Blessings stencil, which you can use to tag any and everything to your heart's content (spray paint not included) and the C90 Cassette with the game's soundtrack.
Yes, yes, I hear you 'but I don't have a cassette player! Nobody does.' Not my problem you decided to sell that hunk of junk town car from the late 80s, now is it?
The whole set is on pre-sale for $60.
The second premium edition is for the immigration game (oh my god, where's Cumberbatch?) Papers, Please. The $70 set will get you a Steam key (no physical copy, sadly), an inspector's pin badge and arguably, "the most important components are, of course, the approved and denied stamps, and the complete bound rulebook listing all the many reasons to use the latter."
Yes, you too can become a dickish immigration officer, with the stamps, a full set of papers and passports, postage stamps and a great Arstozka poster that you can hang triumphantly in your room.
Both are available for pre-order only for the next month, after which, they will never be offered again. But fear not, more modern cult titles will go on sale at that time. So tell us, what do you want to see get the full Criterion edition? Let us know in the comments below.
