This makes me think of old times when we played the same levels of Super Mario Bros for days without any add-on. Today, looks like we can’t even buy a game if it’s not going to be online or have some sort of “collectors edition” with figurine or game-related bonus item. Anyway, these are the latest announcements: Pikmin hat for Animal Crossing, Sackboy figurines, new Mass Effect DLC under development and printable Killzone 2 stuff.

You’ll find the Pikmin hat for your character in Animal Crossing city folk in your mailbox until February 12 and it’s completely free. The Sackboy figurines are currently being manufactured and they’ll range from 5cm to 45cm (huge!) but I don’t have any info about pricing yet. I don’t know anything about Mass effect either, because the developers are very reserved but I hope that it comes out soon, so I can play it along with Bring Down the Sky (I don’t have the free space to install mass effect any more after Dead Space, Mirror’s Edge and the Source SDK. As for Killzone 2, I’ll make it short: find hidden stuff in the game and you’ll get hidden stuff in real life. That’s it. If you find a token or something like that during the single player you’ll be awarded with a code that allows you to download high-resolution prints for paper-crafts or just posters! Sure it’s a great idea but the file sharing community won’t need too much time to create a “Killzone2 paper-craft compilation”.

Nostalgic side of the day: Super Mario theme played with bottles!