One of the perks of my freelance weaseldom is that I'm usually able to scam retail copies of current games--but Sammy, which has always hooked me up in the past, rejected my 20XX request, saying it had only a handful of press copies as opposed to the usual boatload.

Whether this means Sammy recognized 20XX's stunning suckiness early on and manufactured a modest number of copies, I don't know, but I'm trying to find out.

-- Z.