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Golden Joystick Voting Ends Next Week
4:00AM Mike Fahey | 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. More »
Fable II Site Launches, Fabulous Prizes Await
4:20AM Mike Fahey | 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. More »
Win Too Human!
12:00PM Logan Booker | 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 More » 
Win A Copy Of Too Human, Too Easy
4:30PM Logan Booker | 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. More » 
1st Annual Game Makin’ Shindig Announces Winners, Existence
4:30PM Logan Booker | Gaming site Eegra has announced the winners of its first “game makin’ shindig“, defying claims that one can only have game makin’ shebangs. There are nine titles in all, each with two reviews, and they’re free to download if you’d like to have a play.
The competition is of particular relevance as Conor O’Kane, an Australian, took out first prize and bagged $US 2000 with his bizarre-looking Go Beryllium.
All I can say is, I wish I’d known about the comp! I’d have submitted Wizkill, Zafehouse or Blockshooter. Oh, if you’re wondering why there’s been a lack of Game A Weeks, I had to take a bit of a break while I direct my arse off.
Press release after the jump. More » Dress Up (or Photoshop) For Topspin
11:00AM Brian Ashcraft | Just a friendly reminder! We also have our Top Spin contest, which we will extend over the weekend ’cause of the three-day-weekend and wrap up early next week. Above is baconfrenzy’s entry; Ben writes, “The attached file is muh entry, no laughs… well, maybe a chuckle”. Here’s what’s going on: Wimbledon is wrapping up, and the US Open is still a few months away, but Top Spin 3 and Kotaku are bringing you the Kotaku Open. We’re going to make this simple for you. Don’t bother practicing your twist serve or calling up your doubles partner. All you need to do is get yourself in some tennis attire! We don’t particularly care how you do it either: Steal your dad’s tennis shorts from ‘72, Photoshop your head onto Federer’s body, or maybe, just maybe you’re a tennis superstar with a closet full of visors and wristbands. Send in your pictures to kotakucontestATgmailDOTcom, readers will vote for their favourite, and the winner gets a free copy of Top Spin 3 (platform of your choice!), courtesy of 2K Sports. Match point! Top Spin [Official Site] More »Win A Copy of Civilization Revolution
5:00PM Brian Ashcraft | By Kotaku Time, it’s officially July 4th. So, happy July 4th! And to celebrate, we’re giving away a copy of Civilization Revolution in a very, very easy contest. Use each of the letters that appear in the title Civilization Revolution to spell out countries names. So, for example, “Canada”, “Ireland”, “Vietnam”… None of the countries can repeat — well, save for “OMAN.” So put that in an email and and send it to kotakucontestATgmailDOTcom. The two hundredth and thirty-second email we get, wins a copy of the game. Winner will be announced over the weekend. Good luck! Civilization Revolution [Official Site] More »Wii Championships In Melbourne This Weekend
2:00PM Logan Booker | Do you have mad Wii Sports skills? A Wii remote bowling arm that rivals those of real world professionals? Does the idea of winning things excite you?
If you said “yes” or nodded your head with restrained enthusiasm at any of these questions, you should check out the Wii Championships in Melbourne’s Federation Square. Activities will run between 10AM and 5PM on July 5 & 6, with daily champions receiving a Wii and five games. 500 Wii backpacks are also available for keen entrants.
As an aside, the ACMI’s Game On exhibition ends on July 13, so if you do head down, be sure to check this out while you have the chance.
Full release after the jump. More » Gizmodo AU Has 10 Playstation 3s Up For Grabs
11:30AM Logan Booker | Have a QR-enabled phone and a burning desire to win a PS3? Then head over to our sister site, Gizmodo AU, and check out its exclusive PS3 competition! Things wrap up on July 4 (this Friday), so there’s really no time to dilly-dally!
If you’re wondering if your phone is QR-enabled, here’s the info you need (taken from the Giz AU post):
… Either a NextG handset from Telstra (you’ll probably have to download the software to make it work), or certain Nokia phones (with additional software).
If this sounds like you, hit the link below.
Sony’s First QR Code Is A Giz AU Competition To Win 10 PlayStation 3s! [Gizmodo AU] More »
12:00AM Logan Booker | Mongol – The Story Continues: Our utterly bizarre story about a ballroom-dancing Mongol just keeps going and going! If you’d like to win a double pass to see the movie of the same name (Mongol, if you’re having trouble), head on over to the original post and help us fight the Tangut scourge! More » 
