Microsoft has unveiled a new Wolverine Xbox controller to match Deadpool, but your chances of getting either are pretty slim.
Deadpool & Wolverine looks set to be the biggest movie of the summer, so unsurprisingly the film’s marketing has spread into the video game world.
Outside of rumoured collaborations with Fortnite and Call Of Duty, Microsoft recently unveiled a Deadpool-themed Xbox controller with a particularly rotund posterior, alongside a customised Xbox Series X console featuring foam katanas.
A week later, Xbox has now debuted a Wolverine controller with a plump rump to match.
As shown in an Xbox Wire post, the controller has even been given a billboard in Alberta, Canada (Wolverine’s supposed to be Canadian), where Deadpool is sat between Wolverine’s cheeks.
The biggest kicker is that all these items are restricted to giveaways, so they will not be available to buy. To be in with a chance of winning the Wolverine controller, fans are being told to keep an eye on Microsoft’s Instagram page for a post tagged #MicrosoftCheekySweepstakes for further details.
As for the Deadpool console and controllers, you have to follow and repost the tweet below from the Xbox account before August 11. To enter, you also have to be aged 18 or over.
If you’re wondering how the buttocks function in action, the plastic bum extension is a detachable plate locked in by magnets – so you can easily pop it off to make it a normal controller for actual gaming sessions.
Xbox has promised further giveaways in a live broadcast of the Deadpool & Wolverine premiere on Twitch, which takes place in New York later today (July 22).
Deadpool And Wolverine, meanwhile, is released in cinemas on Friday July 26.
This is the latest in a long line of Xbox promotional items which seem like they’d sell like hotcakes but which Microsoft only produces one or two of, to give away as prizes – we still can’t believe they never made the Bluey console a regular product.
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