At the turn of the month, a selection of Alex Casey posters and game covers signed by Remedy's Creative Director, Sam Lake, helped raise $2430 for the New York Video Game Critics Circle.
If you only caught a brief mention of the auction on our social media or on Sam's, there's a good reason for that. All auctions had a buy it now option, a feature on eBay which allows the buyer to purchase the item at a designated price. All the signed Alex Casey posters were set at $260, and were snapped up soon after going live, along with the signed game covers, which were accepted at their best offer.
The most expensive item was a signed copy of Control Ultimate Edition for Xbox Series X, which sold for $365.
If you have an eBay account, it's worth giving the NYVGCC a follow! While the auctions were posted close to raise money for the coming year, it's likely not to be the only Remedy-themed items available for sale going forward. These items sold QUICK. (We were literally midway through a blog post when the last ones were bought, and we took that personally.)
The Alan Wake and Control goodness weren't the only things up for auction on the page either. They raised additional money with a signed Dungeons & Dragons book lot, a Tales of Kenzera: ZAU mask and controller, and MEGA MAN Limited Edition Headphones. At the moment, there are four available for sale: The Last of Us Part I PS5 Firefly Edition signed by Neil Druckmann, The Last of Us Part II on PS4 signed by Neil Druckmann, an Xbox Black Bomber Jacket, and a collection of limited edition merchandise from The Pokémon World Championships held in Honolulu.
The money raised will help fund their community-driven programs, including Playing with Purpose, which provides a stepping stone into game development by bringing comprehensive classes and workshops in journalism and game narrative to schools and homeless shelters across New York. Through it, they have helped support fresh talent through semester-long games writing and journalism classes with Bronx and Brooklyn students, resulting in scholarships. Though NYCC has a wider reach in the city, it arranges game development talks in local libraries and mentors older adults with VR to take them on trips they can no longer take.
