Swag News

Portal Swag Proves Existence of Cake

By Chris Faylor, Oct 24, 2008 8:42am PDT

Not content with PopCap sending over mere cookies, Microsoft has taken things to the next level in its effort to promote this week's release of...

"Well, it's not a bad deal if you didn't buy Orange Box for some reason, and want to play portal ..."

By Chris Faylor, Oct 15, 2008 10:19am PDT

Here at Shacknews, we have just received the most delicious piece of game-related promotional material yet--well, apart from that case of Mountain...

"A vanilla-cherry crazy cake promotion would be awesome. Especially if they publicized a real ..."

By Nick Breckon, Aug 29, 2008 8:58pm PDT

Remember those old Fallout manuals? The ones with the taped-over hints and 50s-style dark humor? The original Vault Dweller's Survival Guide?...

"Digging is for all sorts of stuff. You can make tunnels or wells, the list goes on....."

By Chris Faylor, Jun 10, 2008 7:57am PDT

Continuing this week's delightfully odd nature, retailer GameStop just sent Shacknews a series of Lavender-scented air fresheners. The package,...

"The worst one they don't have up there are the display thingies for Battlefield: Bad Company. ..."

By Chris Faylor, Apr 29, 2008 7:29am PDT

Proving that not all UPS drivers are bad folk, the local delivery man just dropped off a package from Rockstar Games containing some additional...

"The earlier swag was much better than this. This stuff looks cheap. Shouldn't the shirt say ..."

By Chris Faylor, Apr 08, 2008 8:13am PDT

Rockstar Games just sent over a number of promotional goodies for the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3, X360). And while we here at...

"At first I didn't get it because I saw the lower case w and though it was some kind of ..."