Hellgate London Pre-Order Update

By Steve on Sunday, September 30th, 2007 at 5:02 AM PST In Electronic Arts, Game Companies, Game Consoles, Microsoft

Wondering why your local Best Buy or Wal-Mart sales goons don’t know wtf you are talking about when you mention pre-ordering Hellgate: London? Well, the official Hellgate London website thought this was odd and did some investigation of its own. Here’s what info they dug up:

You want to pre-order Hellgate: London. You walk into Best Buy or Wal-Mart, and no one knows what you’re talking about. What gives?

Wow, this was confusing lots of people, us included. Apparently, Best Buy and Wal-Mart only start pre-order programs 30 days before a game comes out. That means until October 1st comes around, you can’t pre-order Hellgate: London from them and get your hands on those awesome Dye Kits. Luckily, October 1st is right around the corner!

Also, please be aware that Best Buy will be taking pre-orders in-store and online, and Wal-Mart will only be doing in-store pre-orders. If you’ve been waiting for a specific Dye Kit from either one of them, you’ll have your chance soon enough.

So there you go. October 1st seems to be the magic day for pre-orders. And if you are curious as to just what pre-ordering Hellgate: London gets you, check out the Hellgate: London Pre-Order page.

As a bonus, the HGL website gave us an update to the Dye-Kits, this time for the Guardian: