So yet another Collector’s Edition to unbox, and this time it’s Mass Effect 2.

The package includes:

• Tin Case
• Bonus DVD with making of and other behind the scenes
• 1 Comic Book
• 1 Art Book
• Dragon’s Age Blood Armour Unlock
• Limited Edition Cerberus Network card granting access to bonus content

Unboxing after the jump.

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So I was at the Melbourne EBGames Mass Effect 2 launch this morning.

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I recently upgraded to Windows 7 and immediately noticed how unbelievably clunky they’ve managed to make file sharing and permissions work.

My media center is  a modded Xbox with XBMC running, and normally I just share a folder on my PC where all my downloads go.  Strangely enough, with Windows 7, XBMC wouldn’t detect any files in my shared folder at all!

After fooling around with Windows 7, I discovered the following:

Windows 7 has 3 types of ‘Networks’ you can connect to – Home, Work and Public.  Home and Work are extremely stringent with how files are shared, because not only do you have to share the folders, the files inside must have share permissions set for people to see them.  This can get annoying because files that say uTorrent create, never have shared permissions, even if they are created inside a directory which is already shared.

Well there are a couple of solutions to this:

• You can manually set file permissions each time you download a new file.  You do this by Right-clicking on the parent folder that contains all your shares.  Properties > Security > Advanced.  Click the “Change Permissions…” button then Check “Replace all child object permissions…”

• You can copy the file to another shared folder.  This should ‘reset’ the file permission to whatever the folder you are copying to.

• You can set your network to Public.  This isn’t as bad as it sounds, if you are running your own home network, chances are you know exactly who is connected to your network at any given time.  Setting your network to public means you can share a folder without having to set file permissions individually, which is good, since consoles can’t really identify themselves to Windows 7 anyway.

Other things which you need to do are to get rid is 128-bit password protection in Advanced Sharing Settings in Control panel.  Make sure it’s set to ‘Enable file sharing for devices that use 40 or 56 bit encryption’ as the Xbox doesn’t support it.  And finallly, in the Homegroups section, make sure ‘Use user accounts and passwords to connect to other computers’ is checked.

I recently stumbled upon a very good and detailed Uncharted 2 multiplayer guide with tips for new players and in depth weapon info on the PSN forums written by ChronoJoe.  With his permission I’ve decided to publish his guide in it’s full glory here.

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves™ Survival Guide

I made a thread before, about sharing multiplayer tips, and whilst my thread didn’t get many people sharing any tips – it did get a considerable amount of kudos, which to me implied it was atleast somewhat helpful. So I figured I’d attempt to write out a full guide for the games MP component, primarily in the interest of helping the community, especially the lesser experienced players, get better at the game.

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My week has just been made by the early release of Bayonetta here in Australia. I picked up the interestingly named ‘Infinite Climax’ special edition of the game.

What the package includes:

• 32 Page gloss hardcover artbook
• Game soundtrack CD
• The game on whatever platform you bought it on
• Cardboard case to hold everything in

Unboxing after the jump.

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