The Huz Experience

Mojo recently added a flashy banner imploring me to preorder the excellent game Psychonauts, so tonight I decided to perform my civic duty and do as I was told. I presume the game will be released in North America long before Europe – so I might as well order it from some American site, like EBgames as suggested by Mojo, thought I. Big mistake!

The first problem: the United Kingdom was just about the only country conspicuous by its absense from the massive dropdown in the ‘International Shipping’ section. Uh oh! Instead I checked the shipping price for a handily nearby country, France – and guess what! EBgames wanted to charge half the price of the game itself for postage. Sod that then. ¬

Luckily I decided not to give in, because next I journeyed to Video Games Plus, which I’ve heard good things about. There the Xbox version of the game costs just over £30 – including international shipping! That’s less than the game will cost via mail-order once it officially arrives here, and much less than it will cost in an actual shop. In other words, after flying all the way across the Atlantic in some kind of jet plane, Psychonauts will still be in my possession sooner and cost less than if I wandered down to GAME. Jeeeeze. This country. ¬