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The 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival is quickly coming to a close In fact, the Un Certain Regard winners were just announced now (you can see them all right here). But this year’s line-up, unlike year’s past put a lot of heavy weights near the end of the festival like Roman Polanski’s “Venus In Fur,” and Jim Jarmusch’s deadpanned, odd and deeply enjoyable vampire movie, “Only Lovers Left Alive” which screened last night (you can read our review right here). The film centers on a deeply depressed underground musician (Tom Hiddleston) whose romantic solitude in Detroit and Tangiers who restored when he is reunited with his strong and enigmatic lover (Tilda Swinton). Their love has endured several centuries, but their debauched existence is soon disrupted by the arrival of the her younger sister (Mia Wasikowska) and her boyfriend (Anton Yelchin). Disenfranchised by the way humanity has evolved can these strangers on the fringes continue to survive in the modern world is collapsing...

Filed under: Toys/Games, UK, Racing For years now, video game makers (and their marketing teams, more than likely) have sought to amp up the excitement of their new releases with wild and lavish special edition packages. Our own Call of Duty Prestige Master, John Neff, is sure to remember the functional night vision goggles that shipped with CoD's Modern Warfare 2, and the radio-controlled "surveillance vehicle" that was packed in with Black Ops. The monstrous Halo franchise has offered special edition games in a Master Chief head and with a massive set of action figures, and, closer to home, our copy of Gran Turismo 5 came complete with a lovely 1:43 scale Nissan GT-R Spec V (and book... yawn). But certainly we've seen nothing that can compete with the recently announced, UK-only special edition of the upcoming Grid 2 title from Codemasters and Briggs Automotive Company (better known as BAC). For the reasonable sum of just 125,000 British pounds (around $189,000), the Grid 2: Mono Edition can be yours. That's right, a little less than a new Porsche 911 Turbo S, you can have a copy of Grid 2 complete with original artwork, a brand new Playstation 3, a tour of the BAC factory, a Grid 2-branded racing helmet, a full racing suit with boots and gloves, and, you guessed it, a G2-liveried BAC Mono. That's right - buy a video game, get a racecar. At least that's how Codemasters is spinning it. In the attached press release, it claims that Grid 2: Mono Edition will set the Guinness World Record for "Most Expensive Video Game Commercial Available - Special Edition." Our request for a playable demo is in the mail, Codemasters.Continue reading Grid 2: Mono Edition is some kind of spendy video gameGrid 2: Mono Edition is some kind of spendy video game originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 25 May 2013 19:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments