This Just In: Week of July 2, 2026

This Just In: Week of July 2, 2026

It’s the E3 edition (Ex-Evil Ex).

We’ve got quite the bumper crop of greatness for you in this week’s This Just In update: two beefy editions of two hotly anticipated releases. This is the part where we could go on spinning our wheels to build anticipation for the reveals, but you know what? We’re just going to jump right to it. Besides, the header image gave it away.

Scott Pilgrim EX: Deluxe Adventure Edition

The middle tier of our three Scott Pilgrim EX offerings has arrived for dispatch to eager fans. This one may not come with all the bells and whistles of the Ultimate Adventure Set, but it comes with enough bells and whistles to feel fully rad. It punches above its weight class, as they say. Like Scott himself, it’s the best fighter in the province.

The Deluxe Adventure Set ships in a durable, oversized, plastic clamshell case with a velvety-soft interior to keep the precious goods inside safe from harm. And, you may well ask, do those precious goods entail? Well, if you must know (and clearly you must, otherwise why even bother reading this blog post?):

First, there’s a game. In this case, a Switch game. It’s like the Standard Edition, bundled into the Deluxe Adventure Edition, except with a foil treatment! Like one of those Russian nesting dolls, the difference being that unlike a doll, this runs on your Nintendo Switch and comes with a nice physical booklet and reversible sleeve, in addition to the foil treatment.

Next up, a soundtrack CD featuring two discs’ worth of great tunes by our friends in Anamanaguchi. The actual title of the album appears here as a sticker affixed to the shrink wrap... we thought it looked too nice to discard, so we peeled it off and stuck it to the jewelcase.

And finally, the pièce de résistance for many Scott Pilgrim fans: a brand new mini-comic by Bryan Lee O’Malley detailing the rise of Metal Scott. What’s inside? We’ll leave that for you to discover yourself once your copy arrives. But we will note that some dedicated comics fan decided that we should ship this great little publication in a polybag with a backing board. This is the part where you should try to visualize Limited Run Games not as a publishing label but as a person. They look you in the eye as they make a fist, lightly double-tap their knuckles to their heart, then point playfully at you with a wink. That is to say: we get you, fam. And we got you.

Nickelodeon Splat Pack Classic Edition

Four retro games in one retro package, the box art declares. And that’s no joke. This package will in fact that you back to the year 1998 or so, when you didn’t watch shows by streaming them or buying a 4K Blu-ray restoration. No, the only way to watch a show on demand back then, any time you wanted (rather than when it happened to air on one of four TV stations or show up on one of your town’s two dozen theater screens), was to buy a VHS tape of it.

What does that have to do with video games? Well, nothing exactly. But these four games—GUTS!, Rocko’s Modern Life: Spunky’s Dangerous Day, and two versions of AAAHH!!! Real Monsters—happen to be based on Nickelodeon shows, and the retro packaging hero is a dead ringer for actual Nickelodeon VHS cassettes. In fact, there’s even a fake VHS cassette box contained inside the fake VHS tape slipcase box for you to pull out and psych yourself into thinking you’ve bought a videotape, not a video game. (Please do not put the fake box into an actual VHS deck.)

Inside the not-actually-a-working-VHS-tape box, the Splat Pack includes the standard edition game (complete with cartridge and booklet), a fold-out poster, a sheet of game sprites—a sprite sheet, as it were—and a Nickelodeon keychain. Thankfully for your postal carrier, it does not contain slime of any sort. (Wrong Nick show.)

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Look forward to more greatness next week, including some fresh pork chops... just in time for those summer cookouts.