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Back in 2004 I received my first ever NZGamer courier delivery. It was Second Sight, and I was incredibly excited by the prospect that someone would actually send me something - without having to pay for it - and I'd get to review it on the site.

Since then NZGamer has come a long way; many more deliveries came to my house, I relocated to Wellington, we found ourselves a dinky little office, we were sent many more games, and recently we moved into a much bigger and flashier office space.

I still get occasional games to review, although they no longer come to my house, instead I just grab them as the courier makes his daily deliveries.

In the past few years we've seen the launch of the next-generation consoles, and with it, a huge increase in the amount of 'promo material' we get. Sent by companies to promote their upcoming games, no two packages containing these promotional goodies are ever the same, making them incredibly intriguing to open and eye through the contents.

I'll take a few of the latest of these goodies we've received and share their contents. Who knows, perhaps we'll give some of this away?

LittleBigPlanet

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Yes, a little sack-momento containing an embosed cardboard illustrated instruction booklet for the game, as well as a few media materials - videos, renders, artwork, etc -  on the CD.

Motorstorm Pacific Rift

This one was received in an odd parcel when it arrived. It had a strange shape to it, and for some reason it smelt strangely like tires when opened. It contained a large poster, lanyard with Motorstorm cards, a few other themed posters/tickets, along with a media disk and copy of the game.

Resistance 2

Resembling a tin your grandmother would keep her digestive biscuits in, this tin contains plenty of reminders of the great battle; front page of a 1952 newspaper, aged photo, birth certificate, diary and media cd and copy of the game.

Seen any interesting packaging yourself? Let me know in the comments, and also let me know if this was at all interesting and you'd like to see more of these!