Me I do a lot of both. As RPGs are among my favourite kind of game, half the time I look up newer games, talk on MSN, visit forums and do other things while also getting in some hardcore grinding.

My purchasing method is to look up 'edition' via ebgames and GAME, preorder all the special editions and then grab the games I want without a special edition every other week. I guess I like my memorabilia, though I liked it better back in the early/mid 90s when half my normal editions came with cool freebies from time to time. Still have the figures that came with the old Army Men games on PC.