Posts tagged early 
Devil Survivor Overclocked checks the time, hits EU one week early
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked is coming to European 3DSes one week earlier than expected, on March 29. Ghostlight, the European publisher, pushed the date up on its online store where the game is available for pre-order at £35. Devil Survivor Overclocked dropped in Japan and ...
Wii U games pre-ordered from Amazon begin shipping
Okay so, we've got some good news and some bad news for people who pre-ordered their Wii U games from Amazon. The good news, as you've probably guessed, is that some games are already making their way to players' homes, as is made evident by ultra-cool Joystiq reader Jerry's copy of Black Ops 2, ...
Resident Evil 6 out early in Australia (this is how the infection begins)
Resident Evil 6 is available in Australia for Xbox 360 and PS3, and has been since Thursday, Game Informer AU reports. The game technically has a release date of Tuesday, October 2, but hey, that's more of a guideline anyway. Back in August, copies of Resident Evil 6 were let loose in Poland, ...
Play Halo 4 before the rest of the world at the MLG Fall Championship
Halo 4 is entering the Major League Gaming Pro Circuit four days before its launch in the wider, unprofessional world on November 6. Halo 4 will be part of the Fall Championship running November 2 - 4 in Dallas, Texas, MLG announced today. MLG will announce details about the Halo 4 competition, ...
Penny Arcade's wet, edgy, shadowy game to launch early
Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3, Zeboyd's pixel-happy iteration in Penny Arcade's RPG series, is now set to come out on June 25 for Steam (PC immediately, Mac eventually) and XBLIG. It was originally slated to drop July 10, but as Penny Arcade puts it, "waiting until July ...
Devil May Cry HD Collection may be out now at your local brick-and-mortar
The Devil May Cry HD Collection has an official launch date of April 3, but brick-and-mortar stores such as GameStop are selling it right now -- seriously, call up your local games store and ask if they have it in stock. Told you so. Physical retailers are able to sell Devil May Cry HD before the ...
Journey travels to PS Plus members one week early
Reviews for Journey are already sprinkling the vast wasteland of the web, but the full game doesn't officially launch until March 13, giving the hype plenty of time to blow away like sand in the wind. Sony is looking to fix that by launching Journey one week early for PS Plus members, at the ...
ESRB trying to curtail early game reveals
It's the end of an era. For a long time now the Entertainment Software Ratings Board has been a great source for spotting games that had not yet been announced. This was entirely due to the open system that was used by the ERSB's site, which allowed anyone to check a game's rating as soon as it ...
Lucky shopper gets Rock Band early, shops it on eBay
Update 2: As many commenters have figured out, and the seller has now confirmed, the box that was sold includes a demo version of the game that has a limited song list. The demo unit has been relisted with the corrected information. Update: Seems the auctioneer has since halted bidding on the ...
Italy breaks Euro PS3 street date
You'd think that after waiting for roughly five months longer than the rest of the world, European retailers would be able to wait a couple more days to start selling their one million stockpiled PS3s. Apparently not, though, as an Italian retailer has broken Sony's carefully planned street date, ...

