Reader meetup update: 'Fallout 3' bundles, Nokia N-Gage / Ovi, Make, and more!
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Dec 11th 2008 3:00PM
posted Dec 11th 2008 3:00PM
PC bundle
- Alienware Area 51 m15x laptop
- Fallout 3 Collector's Edition (PC)
- Fallout 3 Token (redeemable for Operation: Anchorage premium downloadable content in January '09)
- SideWinder mouse
- Wenger Impulse Notebook Case by SwissGear
- Emergency blanket
- Xbox 360 Elite console
- Fallout 3 Collector's Edition (Xbox 360)
- Fallout 3 Token (redeemable for Operation: Anchorage premium downloadable content in January '09)
- 1-yr Xbox LIVE Gold Subscription
- Emergency blanket
These are just two of many, many succulent giveaways you could walk away with if you attend. Nokia has also graciously offered up some free N-Gage content. If you're an N-Gage user, you can bring your device to the meetup and they'll hook you up with a free game! The company is also outfitting a handful of readers with Ovi-equipped devices during the event so they can stream live content. Five (5) readers will be selected -- if you'd like to be one of the chosen few, leave a comment on this post, and we'll contact you with more info!
Additionally, our main homeboys from Make are going to be in attendance with some projects and magazines, as well as a pretty cool surprise to show off that we're awfully excited about.
Just added: LIvescribe will be giving away a Pulse (courtesy of Target), Palm is handing out a Treo Pro, and Neat Receipts has graciously offered up 3 Neat Desks!
Read on after the break for more details about the meetup!
Right now we've got participation (and giveaways) from the following companies: Nokia, Microsoft (Zune and Xbox), T-Mobile, Palm, HP, SanDisk, Peek, Sling, Bug Labs, Neat Receipts, Livescribe, Rhapsody, and Make. Here's some super-important details about the event:
- We're giving away tens of thousands of dollars in gear! Including...
- SanDisk 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB microSD cards for the first 200 people through the door!
- Free food, and free drink tickets for the first 500 people
- Live Q&A session with Engadget editors
- Music for the evening will be provided by Justin VanDerVolgen (of !!! and Outhud)
- The event is 18 TO ENTER / 21 TO DRINK, AND YOU MUST BRING AN ID. ADMISSION IS FREE. Sorry younger readers, but we'll do a follow-up all ages event soon!
- The venue capacity tops out at a tiny bit over 1000, so you if you're coming, be sure to get there early!
When: Friday, December 19th, 7:00PM to 12:00AM
Where: Hiro Ballroom, 371 W. 16th St., New York, NY. 10011
You can RSVP (or just discuss plans) for the event on Facebook here.
For media interested in attending, please ping us at: nycreadermeetup [at] gmail [dot] com
Note: space for media is very limited as this is a reader event. Readers, you're all set -- no need to email us.
See you there Engadget!
Count me in!
Manana!
There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who will attend the Engadget reader meetup, and those who don't...
whats up with some swag bag grab
I just wish I could make it :(
Me thinks I'll be there... Muhaw ha! ha! Happy Holidays Indeed!
want
Im wondering how "random" works. how do you do it engadget? HOW?!?!?
Now those are nice packages!
Let the "that's what she said" comments commence!
THATS WHAT SHE SAID!
I'll be there...
Those are two awesome bundles.
I want to try a Nokia Ovi device, I love nokia
me want... but me from Canada.
*sigh* Nobody does reader meetups in the Mid-West.... always on one of the coasts....
yea i know i wish they would do the holiday party in chicago. i would totally attend
Nice. Sounded like a great time.
Wish I could have been there.
I would gladly receive any of the swag.
Oops....let's try could be there.
Wish I could go, but it's a few hundred miles to far sadly.
These things are made of epic win to there very cores
okey dokey. i'll watch from the other side of the country... and cry...
I'm definitely going, I just hope I get a 8gb micro sd. I need one for my G1 LOL XD
nice
wish i could be there
...I just wish my Fallout would stop crashing to the desktop....just like all the other bajillion people's who's games are crashing...oh Bethesda...
I live a block away from Hiro
sweet!
cool, dec 19th is the day b4 my birthday! too bad im too young to go.
Wish I could make it....but I'd love to be in the running for some streaming awesomeness!
Thank goodness for google maps.
I have that laptop! Yeah! Not a bad machine, bigger than I would have thought though.
I really want to go to this one but sadly I'm in SF. Would like to see that place that looks almost like it should be a scene from Kill Bill!
Nokia sucks.
go to hell
as i type this on my n810, i conquer.
*concur. regardless. just go to hell.
oh hai.
happy holiday's!
You guys need to do something out here on the left coast. Also, I'm not normally one to say things like this but that Alienware laptop is the spitting image of a certain fruit-based computer company's products.
Damn i would love to go. BTW is anyone traveling from the syracuse area to go to this fabulous event?
Right smack dab in the center of NY and i cant get there cause i dont own a car :( only if i had a dragon.... :)
I'm driving from Corning (just south of Ithaca,) but I'm crashing at my girlfriend's place in Brooklyn. If you can get down here, and have a place to stay, I can give you a lift.
Orrr... don't answer me whatsoever. Invitation withdrawn!
peckerwood
If only I was close enough to attend. Count me in to be in the running for the spoils!
I'm curious about this emergency blanket.
Eff yes! Engadget FTMFW!
Look seriously guys, I am like 15 minutes away from you guys. I can bring some cupcakes from Crumbs.
Nice bundle!
do want!