All gaming, all the time.

Today Fallout 76 has been realized, and this Vault Boy sticker has been a free preorder bonus months ago. I got to give out a couple of these to people who preordered, and I got to explain to some people why he has always winked while giving a thumbs up. Which I learned thanks to @didyouknowgaming, that if there’s a nuclear explosion, you put your thumb over the explosion cloud and if it’s larger than the view of your thumb you’re too close to the explosion. Which a lot of Fallout 76 players are going to have to do since they’ll be nuking each other.

We got these posters in back in April at GameStop, and I got one for my poster collection and it’s pretty sick looking poster. Don’t quite understand why the title of the game makes Lara Croft sound like a bad guy but it’s still probably going to be a decent game. Hope people are enjoying it.

Got a couple new Pokemon plushies awhile back at GameStop, at the time we got a 75% employee discount on clearance items so I got all these a pretty cheap prices compared to their original full price. Like I got all these less of a cost than buying the Hat Pikachu at full regular price.

This cute little cow came as a preorder bonus for Harvest Moon: Light of Hope for the Switch. Though at the GameStop I work at no one preordered it and we got this little one anyway. After a week I brought it home with me, her name is Petunia.

Yesterday my Octotune Splatoon 2 soundtrack in, that also comes with a bluray with the ‘live’ performance of Callie, Marie, Pearl, and Marina on stage at Makuhari. I’ve always liked the music of the Splatoon games, can’t say I’ve ever heard of music quite like these in other mediums.

A few weeks ago the Splatoon 2 Splatfest Inklings VS Octolings happened and as a nice thing, Nintendo put up these 11x17 posters of the two teams on My Nintendo Rewards. They’re free to download, just got to print to size and you’ll have nice posters, download them while they’re still up. 

Got some nice enamel Pokemon pins from GameStop on clearance with a nice 75% discount. They’re really nice and on the back instead of a regular rubber stopper it’s shaped like Pikachu’s face like the background behind the pins. One thing I wonder is why Vaporeon was picked for the pair with Eevee.

I actually forgot about this preorder bonus for Octopath Traveler, I got it when I went back to work and just opened them. I'm in love with the details on these character cards, they're reflective and have small textures on them. And the stickers are also nice, and there's a lot of them too.

Amiibo Monday! Pearl and Marina

There’s also something real neat on My Nintendo Rewards here, where you can print out eight alternate boxcovers featuring each character. I plan to get some extra cases and make a set of them.

So my coworker was wrong about this pin here being the second one, this Xernas and Yveltal pin is actually the second one. So now it’s a new very awesome pin for the collection, I want there to be many more where these came from.

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana Adventurer’s Edition came out today, weird that it’s on a Tuesday. Anyway, while I haven’t played the rest of the games in this series, I have played Legacy of Ys on the DS, granted this is a whole different experience. Combat looks pretty fun, and it came with some nice bonus items. A double sided poster, one side with a map and the other featuring Dana Iclucia. As well as three character cards as well, I like RPGs so I’m hoping for a nice experience. Edit: Well! I certainly didn’t realize that Adol is the main character of EVERY Ys game, I would have thought it was like Final Fantasy or something with multiple main characters. But Adol is certainly “Adventurer” man, but knowing that he starts off almost all his new games after a ship wreck and after having the main heroines fall for him is just so silly I love it.

Picked up this Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild bow, quiver and arrows set from Toys R Us. It can be a nice display piece, though I’m sure people have used it a bit for cosplay purposes. Would need to change out the belt on the quiver though to fit a bigger person.

   Like other people today, I got my The Legend of Zelda: Encyclopedia in the mail today. I plan to look through it a lot more thoroughly later, but I’ve liked what I’ve seen in it so far. Though my first thought was, this is already outdated due to Breath of the Wild being out. Then I realized it’s because Breath of the Wild hasn’t had it’s place in the timeline decided yet, so that makes sense.  Anyway, can’t wait to read through all this.

I got a really nice surprise going back to work and getting this at GameStop. I love pins and I collect lanyards, so these are both great additions. My coworker said we missed getting the first one?? Like maybe a Xernas and Yveltal pin that I now need in my life?? All I know is I want us to get more of these, gimme.

A father and his young son bought Shantae 1/2 Genie Hero for the PS4 when I recommended it to them at GameStop. We had it as a preowned copy, and the father wasn’t interested in the box and the soundtrack. So he just left with the game instead, so instead of tossing it I decided to keep it since I actually own the game on the Wii U. And I’m always interested in adding videogame OST CDs to my collection.