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You Could Win $200,000 For Playing Facebook’s Most Annoying Game

How would you like to win a $US200,000 mortgage pay off or $US100,000 cash? That’s the grand prize in Race 4 My Place, a new social city building game that trades real-money microtransactions for an even more annoying revenue model — mandatory advertising.


Nintendo Holds The First Wii Olympics

Are you the best Wii gamer in the country? Nintendo gives you a chance to prove your mettle in the first-ever Wii Games: Summer 2010, and it all starts in the cradle of civilisation: New Jersey.


This Shrunken Head Is Your Game-Winning Prize, Believe It Or Not

A million bucks? A key to the city? Those aren’t the prizes you’ll win if you are among the first 10 people to finish Zon8, a Ripley’s Believe It Or Not web game launching in June. You’ll get a shrunken head.


Mytheon Open Beta Launches With Fabulous Prizes

Petroglyph’s massive multiplayer online action strategy game Mytheon has entered open beta, with a laptop, iPod Touches and iTunes gift cards up for grabs for those who give the game an early go.


First Claims Laid To Million-Dollar Perfect Game

Barely two days after release and MLB 2K10 players are boasting they’ve pitched perfect games – worth a $US1 million bounty to the first to do so, verifiably. But cool your jets, we won’t know for sure for a while.


1 vs 100 Season 2 Premieres Next Week

1 vs 100, the Xbox 360′s massively multiplayer online game show, makes its triumphant return next week, with new questions, more prizes and all the Chris Cashman you can stand.


Golden Joystick Voting Ends Next Week

It’s your last chance to try desperately to make your voice heard in the 26th Annual Golden Joystick Awards. The world’s longest-running video game awards have once again broken their voting record, with nearly 800,000 votes submitted so far. I sincerely doubt they’ll be able to break their target of 1 million before voting ends on the 27th of December, but by gum they’re pulling out all the stops trying, offering up prizes for every 10,000th vote submitted.


Fable II Site Launches, Fabulous Prizes Await

Microsoft and Lionhead have launched the official Xbox site for Fable II, and much like the site for the original Fable it contains a charming interactive storybook for fans of the series to play through, only this time there are prizes involved! The cutout story tells the tale of your character’s ancestor as he deals with the death of his parents and his search for love and vengeance. Depending on the choices you make as you play through it, you will be awarded one of five special in-game items for your troubles.


Win Too Human!

We still have five copies of Too Human up for grabs! If you have a stunning title for the sequel to Silicon Knights’ Xbox 360 RPG, be sure to head over to the competition thread and add your entry. You only have until Friday, so get going!

Win A Copy Of Too Human, Too Easy


Win A Copy Of Too Human, Too Easy

Microsoft has kindly provided us with five copies of Too Human on Xbox 360 to give away. Of course, we can’t just pick five readers to hand the game to – no, we need some competition. Some fierce competition. To this end, we’re asking you to post a comment to this story. In it, you need to propose a name and sub-title for the sequel to Too Human. For instance:

Too Human 2: Even More Human

Do this, and you’re in with a chance. It’s simple, see!

Be sure to include your email address in the provided field when you comment so we can contact you if you win. And yes, you can enter as many times as you like, but you’re only eligible for a single copy. Also note this competition is open to residents of Australia and NZ only. Winners will be announced this time next week.

Now, let me hear your ideas! Note that any comments that are not competition entries will be deleted to prevent confusion.


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