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We’re coming out of a weekend that was loaded with video game reveals and new information on games we already knew about. FromSummer Game Festthrough to the Xbox Games Showcase, there’s a lot of ground to cover, and there’s still more to come. One of the bigger surprises of the weekend so far has been the reveal thata new Life Is Strange game is coming before the end of 2024. Double Exposure comes to multiple platforms on June 03, 2025, but tread carefully when placing your pre-orders.
Pre-orders for Double Exposurewent live at the Square Enix Storeon Monday and there are two editions to choose from - a standard for $50, and a collectors edition for $60. Considering what you get with the collector’s edition, an extra $10 is probably a deal most fans of the series are going to opt in for. The trouble is, that’s not the deal Square is offering. The collector’s edition doesn’t include a copy of the game at all. Not just a code in a box in place of a disc or cartridge, but literally no copy of the game, neither digital nor physical.
It’s noted onthe collector’s edition’s store pagethat Double Exposure’s collector’s edition “does not include a copy of the game itself”. That means if you want the game and everything that comes with the collector’s edition, you will have to buy a copy of the game and the CE separately, so not quite as good a deal as it appears to be at first glance. That’s $110 for both, and I’m assuming there will unfortunately be people who don’t read this or see the warning on the store page who pre-order the collector’s edition blissfully unaware that it doesn’t include a copy of the game.
Beware Life Is Strange: Double Exposure’s Collector’s Edition
The reveal that Double Exposure will have a collector’s edition that doesn’t include a copy of the game comes just two days after the developers ofBlack Myth: Wukongconfirmedphysical copies of the game won’t include the game on a disc. Wukong’s physical editions will just be a code in a box. A step up from an edition that doesn’t include a copy of the game at all, but still not ideal.
Life is Strange: Double Exposure
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Deck Nine’s Life is Strange: Double Exposure brings Max Caulfield back to the limelight, and she now has to use her powers to save her friend, Safi, across two timelines. While trying to solve a murder mystery, Max will have to visit the two parallel worlds.
Even though the warning on Double Exposure’s store page about the collector’s edition not including a copy of the game is bolded and in bright red, it’s halfway down the page and you need to scroll to see it. Since everything you get with the collector’s edition is shown in the image at the top of the page, there will be people who don’t scroll down and therefore don’t see that warning. There’s also a warning on that image, but it is written in very fine print right at the bottom. It feels a little like this is asking for trouble, and selling the collector’s edition with the game for $110 alongside a collector’s edition add-on for $60 without the game clearly marked on the site would have been a better way to go.
