Mass Effect 3

THE BUZZ: Late last week, we brought you word that BioWare planned to send a few copies of Mass Effect 3 up into space. Here’s a video of the first launch from San Francisco.

EGM’s TAKE: Okay, so it’s a silly PR stunt—but hey, it’s also kind of cool! Sending a copy of the game up into space (specifically, the upper atmosphere), and then having it come back down where somebody can find it and enjoy it. Or, you know, find it and then hock it on eBay for big bucks as an early copy of the game like an unscrupulous worm.

But anyhow!

The first two copies of the game have gone up—one from San Francisco, and another from Las Vegas. The San Francisco-launched copy has landed, and here is tracking information for how it travelled:

Of course, last I heard, the copy that came down was still stuck up in a tree at its landing site—a tree that no doubt still has people surrounding it as they try to figure out how to get the precious, precious early copy of Mass Effect 3 down!