The promotion that has been going around the launch of Mass Effect 3 is pretty huge, not only are there tons of trailers but also games on Facebook that allow players to win Mass Effect 3 related stuff. But the stunt that that EA is pulling off to provide some gamers early access to the full game is just nuts!

Mass Effect 3 from space

In order to promote the launch of Mass Effect 3, EA will be launching copies of the game into space by using GPS trackable weather balloons. These balloons will go up and could travel quite a distance before finally coming down again. And when they do finally come down a few lucky people will be able to harvest the game and play it before anyone else!

The balloons will be launched from New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Berlin, London and Paris so if you are anywhere in the vicinity of those areas you’d better be ready to just in your car and race to the crash site. The launch of these balloons will happen sometimes next week and the balloons will be trackable from masseffect.com.