Last year, Bungie added a total of four universal emblem codes inside The Witch Queen Collector’s Editon that players could unlock in the game. This year, it seems to be the same case with Destiny 2 Lightfall Collector’s Edition.
With the Destiny 2 Lightfall Showcase event last year, Bungie also revealed a brand-new Collector’s Edition that features an 8” Pouka Replica with some lore books and a new exclusive emblem code.
And It looks like some players are starting to get their collector’s edition early. In this article, we’ll have all the universal emblem codes in the Lightfall Collector’s Edition.
While there are free emblems to be unlocked with the Ligthfall CE, it’s worth noting that these emblems will not be available in-game until after the release of Lightfall, which is February 28, 2023. So, unfortunately, we won’t be able to see what these emblems look like before that. You can find the emblem codes below. (thanks, Raid Secrets)
Note: We will be updating this article as emblem codes are found in the Lightfall CE.
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How to Redeem Codes on Bungie.net?
In order to redeem emblem codes and codes in general, you would first need to log into your Bungie.net profile. Follow the steps below to learn how to redeem codes on Bungie’s website.
Step 1: Go to Bungie.net
Step 2: Log in to your account by clicking the “My Account” button on the top right.
Step 3: Select your platform
Step 4: Sign in to your platform
Step 5: After signing in, click on your profile icon in the top right and you’ll see Redeem Codes option in the new menu.
Apart from that, Bungie recently released a brand-new trailer for Lightfall weapons and armor pieces this week. We’ve compiled a list of all currently-known exotic and legendary weapons players can expect in Lightfall. Check out the comprehensive list here.
Destiny 2 Lightfall launches February 28, 2023, on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.
Blizzard is now taking pre-orders on a large, nearly $100 special Diablo IV collector’s box which includes many things. But it doesn’t include the game. And while Blizzard isn’t trying to trick people into accidentally buying this game-free box, it still seems very odd that there’s not even an option to get the game with this pricey package of demonic goodies.
Expensive collector’s editions of video games and movies have become more and more popular over the last decade. Personally, I never felt the need for all the random gubbins and statues usually included in these pricey bundles, but I get it. Some folks just really love to collect everything involving their favorite franchise or series. Whatever floats your boat! Just don’t get confused and think this $100 Diablo IV Collector’s Box actually includes the game it’s named after!
This week, Blizzard started taking pre-orders on something it’s calling the Diablo IV Limited Collector’s Box over on its merch store. This large, spiffy-looking box will cost you a cool $96.66 (I see what you did there…) and includes all of these items:
Occult Mousepad
Cloth Map of Sanctuary
Pin of the Horadrim
Diablo IV Collector’s Edition Art Book
Matted Fine Art Prints (x2) – 18.54″ x 10.79″
That’s very nice and all, but you’ll notice that the game isn’t part of this pricey bundle. Now, Blizzard isn’t trying to deceive anyone. It’s clear in the store description that this box doesn’t contain the game. It also isn’t selling the box on Battle.net but instead on its merch site, further separating it from its video game store. So I’m not trying to imply that Blizzard is trying to pull a fast one and trick diehard Diablo players into forking over $100 for something that doesn’t include the upcoming ARPG. I’m just saying it’s a bit odd, is all!
I guess for folks who prefer buying a digital copy of the game via a third-party site or who might want to provide a physical gift to someone who might already have the game pre-ordered, this is a nice idea. But why not have a different version that is $60-70 more and includes a code for the game? Or even a discount on it! Though that kind of stuff might make things more confusing.
Anyway, Diabo IV comes out June 6, 2023 on Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, and PC. If you want it, don’t buy this box. Or do, but then also buy the game separately.
Blizzard is now taking pre-orders on a large, nearly $100 special Diablo IV collector’s box which includes many things. But it doesn’t include the game. And while Blizzard isn’t trying to trick people into accidentally buying this game-free box, it still seems very odd that there’s not even an option to get the game with this pricey package of demonic goodies.
Expensive collector’s editions of video games and movies have become more and more popular over the last decade. Personally, I never felt the need for all the random gubbins and statues usually included in these pricey bundles, but I get it. Some folks just really love to collect everything involving their favorite franchise or series. Whatever floats your boat! Just don’t get confused and think this $100 Diablo IV Collector’s Box actually includes the game it’s named after!
This week, Blizzard started taking pre-orders on something it’s calling the Diablo IV Limited Collector’s Box over on its merch store. This large, spiffy-looking box will cost you a cool $96.66 (I see what you did there…) and includes all of these items:
Occult Mousepad
Cloth Map of Sanctuary
Pin of the Horadrim
Diablo IV Collector’s Edition Art Book
Matted Fine Art Prints (x2) – 18.54″ x 10.79″
That’s very nice and all, but you’ll notice that the game isn’t part of this pricey bundle. Now, Blizzard isn’t trying to deceive anyone. It’s clear in the store description that this box doesn’t contain the game. It also isn’t selling the box on Battle.net but instead on its merch site, further separating it from its video game store. So I’m not trying to imply that Blizzard is trying to pull a fast one and trick diehard Diablo players into forking over $100 for something that doesn’t include the upcoming ARPG. I’m just saying it’s a bit odd, is all!
I guess for folks who prefer buying a digital copy of the game via a third-party site or who might want to provide a physical gift to someone who might already have the game pre-ordered, this is a nice idea. But why not have a different version that is $60-70 more and includes a code for the game? Or even a discount on it! Though that kind of stuff might make things more confusing.
Anyway, Diabo IV comes out June 6, 2023 on Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, and PC. If you want it, don’t buy this box. Or do, but then also buy the game separately.
After being shrouded in mystery for so long, concrete details about Hogwarts Legacy are finally starting to surface. First we got a lengthy gameplay presentation back in March, and earlier this week we got a brand new trailer focusing on the Dark Arts.
The open-world RPG set in the Harry Potter universe is due to release on February 10, 2023 and is set to launch on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One and PC. A Nintendo Switch version is also coming at a yet unspecified later date. Now that the hotly-anticipated game has a firm release date, Hogwarts Legacy pre-orders details have also been conjured up.
The game is set to launch in multiple physical editions including a swanky Deluxe and Collector’s Edition. Those who prefer buying their games digitally will also have a choice between two editions as well. As of 11 a.m. ET on Thursday, August 25 the Hogwarts Legacy Deluxe Edition and Hogwarts Legacy Collector’s Edition are now available to pre-order. All the buying link you need are down below, so jump on your broomstick and get your pre-order locked in right now.
What’s in the Hogwarts Legacy Deluxe Edition?
The Hogwarts Legacy Deluxe Edition (opens in new tab) will be released across platforms and costs $80/£75 on PS5 and Xbox Series X, $70/£75 on PS4 and Xbox One and $70/£60 on PC and Nintendo Switch.
This premium version of Hogwarts Legacy includes 72 hours early access to the game, letting you start playing on February 7, 2023. Plus, you also get a range of in-game goodies such as the Dark Arts Pack. This DLC pack boasts an exclusive Dark Arts cosmetic set, a flying Thestral mount and access to the Dark Arts Battle Arena where you can test your mastery of the sinister side of magic against waves of challenging foes.
There will also be a Hogwarts Legacy Digital Deluxe Edition costing $80/£75 across platforms. It includes all the same extras as its physical counterpart, alongside the Dark Arts Garrison Hat and a cross-gen digital upgrade on PlayStation and Xbox. If you plan to plan Hogwarts Legacy across console generations this is the version for you because, as previously revealed, the standard edition doesn’t come with a free upgrade.
What’s in the Hogwarts Legacy Collector’s Edition?
Wannabe wizards might want to splurge on the pricey Hogwarts Legacy Collector’s Edition. This ultra-premium version of the game will cost $289/£269 on PC and PS4/Xbox One, and an eye watering $300/£279 on PS5 and Xbox Series X.
The Collector’s Edition includes all the Deluxe Edition content mentioned above, as well as a physical life-size floating magic wand with a book base that will look pretty epic on display. It’ll also include a collectible steelbook case, and in-game Kelpie Robe to outfit your character. We expect this edition to be in relatively short supply, so you’ll want to get your pre-order in quickly once they go live tomorrow.
Following its Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak digital event yesterday, Capcom revealed a collector’s edition would also be released on 30th June – with pre-orders opening “soon” in North America via GameStop.
This collector’s edition contains the deluxe edition (including a download code for the expansion and extra set of contents), an enamel pin, the stunning Malzeno amiibo, a steelbook game case and a sticker pack.
This DLC update will require 13GB to install. In addition to the collector’s edition and deluxe editions, there have been additional amiibo announced. You can get the full rundown in our previous post.
Will you be revisiting Monster Hunter Rise when the Sunbreak DLC arrives this June? Tell us below.
Enlarge / Collectors say bare cartridges in “sous vide” condition can command a premium at auction.
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If you aren’t immersed in the world of high-end video game collecting, it’s probably hard to understand why someone paid in excess of $1.5 million for a single, shrinkwrap-sealed boxed copy of Super Mario 64 last Sunday. But if you talk to people who have been collecting games and following this insular world for decades, you’ll find… well, they also think it’s hard to understand.
The confusing part isn’t even the sheer amount of money being spent on a video game box that no one will ever open, much less play. Ever since an early sealed printing of Super Mario Bros. sold for over $100,000 in 2019, the general consensus in the world of high-end game collecting was that an eventual seven-figure game sale was inevitable. But even after a $660,000 Super Mario Bros. sale two months ago, many didn’t think the flashy million-dollar barrier would be broken so quickly. “I honestly thought that this was a milestone that we wouldn’t pass until years from now,” Heritage Auctions Video Game Consignment Director Valarie McLeckie told Ars.
More than the timing, though, game collectors that spoke to Ars expressed near-universal shock that this was the first game to command such a high price. In the past, the small handful of games that have sold for $100,000 or more have all been extremely rare and notable in some way. The Legend of Zelda that temporarily set an $870,000 sales record earlier in Heritage’s recent weekend auction, for instance, was described in the listing as “the only copy from one of the earliest production runs that we’ve ever had the opportunity to offer” for an iconic game.
“I could understand the logic behind a lot of the expensive ones. This felt like the first one that I didn’t understand the ‘Why?’”
Kelsey Lewin
Sure, Super Mario 64 is an important game in a franchise with a huge number of fans. But it’s not the first home video game appearance of Mario—early printings of Super Mario Bros. are more analogous to Superman’s first appearance in Action Comics #1, the holy grail of comic collecting.
And yes, it’s hard to find a copy of the N64 best-seller that wasn’t torn open and played immediately by some kid the second they got it in the late ’90s. But it’s not impossible. Over the last two years, clearinghouse PriceCharting.com lists 30 public sales of “graded” sealed copies of Super Mario 64 (i.e., those which have been evaluated and put in a protective slab by a rating agency). Dozens of additional sealed copies have been sold “raw” and ungraded in that time.
None of those sealed Super Mario 64 boxes sold for more than $38,400 before this $1.56 million sale.
“I thought that a lot of [these high-end sealed-game sales] made sense up until this last weekend,” said Kelsey Lewin, co-director of the Video Game History Foundation and co-owner of retro game store Pink Gorilla. “I could understand the logic behind a lot of the expensive ones. This felt like the first one that I didn’t understand the ‘Why?'”
Long-time sealed-game collector Bronty, who sold that $100,000 Super Mario Bros. two years ago, put a finer point on it. “A $400K result I might have understood. $1.5 million? What the fuck?”
Twilight of the completionists
“What’s basically happening is that people are getting in with a lot more money in their pockets than has been going around in game collecting so far,” says former Wired gaming editor and current Digital Eclipse Editorial Director Chris Kohler. “And they’re saying, ‘You guys are doing it wrong.'”
Kohler has been collecting video games since he was a teenager in the ’90s, or about as long as video game collecting has existed as a hobby. For most of that time, he says, the vast majority of game collectors weren’t all that animated by the idea of today’s hot mint-condition, shrinkwrap-sealed specimens. Instead, the biggest collectors generally wanted to own a complete, playable set of all the titles on their favorite platforms, either as loose cartridges or unsealed but “complete in box” copies.
Antonio Monteiro’s world-record 20,139 game collection exemplifies the “old school” completionist mentality.
Eventually, as these completionist collectors got near the end of their checklists, they all ended up competing for the same rare titles. Thus, obscure games like Stadium Events or Chase the Chuck Wagon would sell for hundreds or thousands of dollars to collectors who needed one of the handful of extant copies in order to finish their collections. For these completionists, the fact that these titles had little-to-no intrinsic value in terms of nostalgia, gameplay, or historical significance was beside the point.
“What’s basically happening is that people are getting in with a lot more money in their pockets than has been going around in game collecting so far… and they’re saying, ‘You guys are doing it wrong.’”
Chris Kohler
Collectors who focused on sealed video games existed in the long ago days of 2018 and prior, but they were a small niche. “None of us were collecting sealed games before this,” Lewin said. “Sealed games of course went for more money than not-sealed games, but it was such a small amount of traditional retro game collectors that were buying the sealed games that I personally hadn’t felt like it was affecting my ability [to collect].”
Next week sees the launch of Monser Hunter Rise on the Nintendo Switch. For those of you planning on picking up the collector’s edition, you might be interested in taking a look at Nintendo Minute’s latest unboxing video.
The collector’s edition, in case you forgot, comes with a physical copy of the game, a Deluxe Kit DLC pack download code, Magnamalo amiibo, “Kamura Mark” pin badge, sticker pack, collectible cards set (4 cards) and a steel book.
The video aboe also gives us our first look at the Switch game card and shows off the new amiibo:
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The collector’s edition isn’t the only Monster Hunter Rise product – there’s also a themed Nintendo Switch and Pro Controller. Will you be getting the Collector’s Edition yourself when Monster Hunter Rise arrives on the Switch next week? Leave a comment below.
GOP Sen. Pat Toomey blocked a bill meant to stop debt collectors from seizing stimulus checks.
Democrats had hoped to pass the measure to maximize the help people would get.
But Toomey intervened, saying debt collectors had the right to claim cash owed.
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Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania on Thursday blocked a bill meant to bar private debt collectors from seizing checks issued as part of the recent stimulus bill.
The law that Toomey opposes had been proposed by Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden and Sherrod Brown.
Such a measure was included in the December relief package passed under President Donald Trump, which provided $600 direct payments to most Americans.
It was not included in the stimulus bill passed under President Joe Biden, however, which provided $1,400 payments.
Democrats still supported the proposal but had to leave it out because of the rules of the Senate mechanism known as budget reconciliation, which was used to pass the latest legislation.
That mechanism let Democrats pass the bill without any GOP votes but comes with limits on what is allowed. The same rules led to proposals for a $15 federal minimum wage being dropped.
Democrats tried to introduce the rule in separate legislation, arguing that the cash was meant to help struggling Americans rather than debt-collection agencies.
Wyden and Brown proposed the measure under a unanimous-consent rule, which allows bills to pass quickly and bypass some lengthy Senate procedures.
Any one senator can block such a proposal, however, which Toomey chose to do.
Toomey argued that Democrats were to blame for the rule not being in the recent bill, as they chose not to involve Republicans in putting it together.
He said debt collectors had valid legal claims against people who “owe money that they haven’t paid to someone else and that someone else has gone to court and it’s been adjudicated.”
The senator also said that, with 90 million relief payments already issued, it was too late to seek the amendment.
The process of the relief-check money being seized by creditors is known as garnishment.
“These payments have already gone out the door,” Toomey said. “The garnishment happens automatically. It’s already happened!”
Toomey’s objection means it is likely that many other relief checks will be seized by debt collectors.
In comments to HuffPost, Brown said “we will keep trying” to get the measure passed. Senators can still try to pass it without unanimous consent, which would take longer and would also require some Republican support to evade filibuster rules.
“Families are hanging on by a thread, but Senate Republicans blocked protections against their relief payments from being seized to pay credit card and medical debt. It’s shameful,” Wyden said in a statement Thursday.
It is unclear whether there is wide backing in the Senate GOP for Toomey’s objection to the measure. Republicans have supported the measure before but may not in the future.
