GAME has opened pre-orders for some dear Fallout TV sequence merchandise, together with a £200 duplicate of Lucy’s Vault 33 backpack, and a £200 model of the Pip-Boy 3000.
The beleaguered British excessive avenue chain says it has seen an enormous spike in curiosity for Fallout merchandise following the success of Amazon’s TV present, and guarantees but extra collectable tie-in objects can be out there on its cabinets sooner or later.
GAME has not too long ago shifted to promoting online game and popular culture merchandise as a significant a part of its providing, whereas scrapping its long-running preowned video games and trade-in service. The chain can be shifting to function extra kiosks in Sports activities Direct shops, a change that has seen the corporate shut bespoke excessive avenue areas and transfer most employees to zero-hour contracts.
“Fallout has been probably the most looked for time period on the GAME web site over the previous seven days, with searches for Fallout up 346 % prior to now month,” GAME managing director Nick Arran mentioned in a press release.
“The present has been an outstanding success amongst followers of the online game, following within the footsteps of different current gaming adaptation The Final of Us.”
For £200, you may get your individual model of Lucy’s Vault 33 backpack, which incorporates a “16-inch laptop computer pocket and 9 completely different helpful pockets” in line with its product description. (Laptop computer presumably not included.) Its launch date is thirtieth September.
Alternatively, you may select to splash £200 on a Pip-Boy 3000 Mk 5 duplicate, which has an LCD display screen “exhibiting in-universe animations” and which exhibits you the time. (In different phrases, it is a massive watch.) Its launch date is thirty first January 2025 – so fill up now earlier than season two?
The demand for extra Fallout is excessive – although there’s at the moment no new sport within the sequence in sight. Final week, Bethesda launched Fallout 4’s “next-gen replace” to a blended response – a lot in order that the most-downloaded mods for the sport since have been to disable it.
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