Turok Released Early?

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I've received quite a few emails this weekend from people saying they had picked up copies of Turok at their local stores. While it's not out of the ordinary for a game's street date to be broken by a single outlet, according to Best Buy, GameStop, GameCrazy and Wal-mart the game came out three days ago on Jan. 31. Apparently no one told this to the game's publisher, Touchstone. The official Turok website has a countdown clock that still has a little over two days left on it. The press materials and game websites like IGN and Gamespot also have it listed as a February 5th release. Is this a matter of a mass mistake on the retailers' part or is Touchstone being sneaky and letting the cat out of the bag early on purpose?

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It's pretty weird how they released it five days earlier than the actual release. If anybody has the reason, please tell me.

 

[SensesFail]

this might be a little far-fetched but i have a theory.

the game wasnt hyped too much was it? so they set release date for feb. 5th (i think) then they actually release it 5 days earlier so if your in store your like "oh man, the store released it almsot a week early, i should pick it up!" and those who had no intentions of buying the game end up buying it.

the release dates were weird for me. i didnt know if it was out or not but i never noticed that it was out 5 days early. i didnt know the officail date, it just seemed fishy that i wasnt hearing much about it but the gamestop website said it was shipping.