Exclusive PAX items

[Rogue_hunter]

Last year had the Razer DeathAdders with the glowing PAX logo, and some other stuff I can't remember so much.

This year we have limited edition Street Fighter 4 sticks:
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2009/08/femme-fatale-stick-580.jpg
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/31/limited-edition-sfiv-sticks-at-pax-only-1000-being-made/

1000 total, 650 Xbox 360 and 350 PlayStation 3. Mostly will be sold at the Capcom booth, with a "very limited" stock available online. It's the "Femme Fatales" of SF4 with a lilac color scheme. Limit 2 per customer on a first-come-first-served basis and cost $159.99. I'm guessing these will sell out Friday within hours of opening.

What else will there be in limited quantities?

[Sandman]

$160 for these....screw that.

[Sandman]

On a hopefully cheaper note Wil Wheaton will have a limited signed and numbered to 200 chapbook of unpublished short fiction.

I'm also tremendously excited to announce that I was able to put together a limited-edition chapbook of mostly-unpublished short fiction that will only be available at PAX. BEHOLD THE INTRODUCTION!

The Day After and Other Stories

Every year, before the summer convention season gets underway, I pull a few excerpts from whatever I plan to release in the fall, take them to my local print shop, and make a deliberately lo-fi, limited edition chapbook to take with me on the obligatory summer convention circuit.

I’ve done previews of Dancing Barefoot, The Happiest Days of Our Lives, Memories of the Future, and in 2008, I pulled together a sampler that eventually became Sunken Treasure.

While Memories of the Future is 2009’s “big” fall release, it didn’t make sense to me to release a Memories-based chapbook this summer, because one already exists.

It looked like there wasn’t going to be a 2009 entry in the traditional Wil Wheaton Zine-like Chapbook Extravaganza, until I realized that I have several pieces of unpublished fiction sitting in my office, just waiting to be published.

“Hey,” I said to myself, “people keep asking me to write and release fiction, and I’ve been waiting until I have an actual novel to give them. But these things totally don’t suck, and I bet readers would enjoy them.”

“That is an excellent idea, me,” I said. “And have I mentioned how smart and pretty you are?”

“Oh, stop it. You’re embarrassing me,” I said.

Together, myself and I collected some of my (mostly unpublished) fiction and put it into this chapbook, for safe keeping.

Even though this is limited to just 200 copies, it represents a significant step for me in my life as a writer, because it’s the first time I’ve collected and published stories that I made up. (You know, like a writer does.) I hope you enjoy it, and thanks for your support!

Wil Wheaton

Pasadena

2009

There will be just 200 signed and numbered copies of The Day After and Other Stories at PAX, which I'll have at my table in bandland. Depending on how it sells and the feedback I get from people who read it, I may decide to do a wide release, similar to what I did with Sunken Treasure.

http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2009/08/my-2009-pax-panel-schedule-and-chapbook-announcement.html

[Hawkzombie]

Damn...I'd love one of those Wheaton books.

[Uno Ill Nino]

How did you find out about the joysticks? I kinda want one. And why is Will Wheaton so loved? Isnt he just Wesley Crusher from TNG?

[wyeast]

He is, but he's managed to emerge out from under that role to make a mark for himself in the geekdom world. :)

[pomeroy]

How did you find out about the joysticks? I kinda want one. And why is Will Wheaton so loved? Isnt he just Wesley Crusher from TNG?

Yeah, I don't get the Wheaton love either. He strikes me as a tool.

[Sl1pstream]

Yeah, I don't get the Wheaton love either. He strikes me as a tool.

You need to see or hear his PAX '07 keynote. He's a total geek and quite proud of it.
I'm pretty sure that they wouldn't have even invited him if he was a douche.

[Scull]

Wil is a great guy. He's funny, intelligent and a total geek. He's great fun to game with or have a drink with and he's a really good storyteller.