Valve today announced details on the second annual Saxxy Awards, a video contest in which participants will create game movies with the new Source Filmmaker. “As revealed last night on GTTV with Geoff Keighley, this year’s Saxxy entrants will be [...] Continue Reading »
Perfect World Entertainment today announced a contest for Blacklight: Retribution, the free-to-play FPS, in which $1,000 will be given away for the next 30 days. “The 30 Days of Fight promotion awards $1,000 each day for 30 days to lucky [...] Continue Reading »
Infinite Game Publishing and Piranha Games today announced the registrations for the upcoming MechWarrior Online Community Day, taking place on July 27th in Santa Clara, CA, are now open. Entrants who receive an invite will get to join the game [...] Continue Reading »
Tripwire Interactive today announced a “Counterattack” Community Mapping Contest in which $35,000 in cash an other prizes can be won. “The contest starts NOW and will run with two judging phases in August and October. There will be cash prizes [...] Continue Reading »
Paradox Interactive today announced the release of a demo for Victoria II: A House Divided, the recently released expansion in the strategy series. In addition, an “After Action Report” contest has been launched giving players a chance to win one [...] Continue Reading »
Valve today announced The Daily Wishlist Giveaway, in which 10 people will win the top 10 games on their wishlist. This contest begins today and runs through the holiday season. "The Giveaway begins December 1st and will continue into the [...] Continue Reading »
DICE today announced a thank you Sweepstakes which players can enter by playing Battlefield 3 from Friday, November 11th at 12:01am GMT through the 13th at 11:59pm GMT. Three prizes will be given away and the grand prize will be [...] Continue Reading »
Valve and The National today revealed the winners of the Portal 2 music video contest, in which two videos tied for first place. The top 1st place winning video actually had nothing to do with Portal, which seems somewhat strange. [...] Continue Reading »
The "Portal 2" blog has been updated with the announcement of the mapping contest winners. "Patent Pending was the overall winner with Infinifling grabbing second place. The voting was so close, we added an honorable mention for Edifice. Since we [...] Continue Reading »
Valve and The National today announced a music video contest for "Portal 2" based on the Exile Vilify song that was featured in the game. The winner will receive a signed guitar by the band and a collection of Portal [...] Continue Reading »
The "Portal 2" blog has been updated with the announcement of a "Summer Mapping Initiative", a mapping contest that will run from May 24 to June 6. Prizes include an Ultimate Portal 2 Gift Pack signed by the developers and [...] Continue Reading »
Valve today announced a "treasure hunt" in Steam, in which players will be entered into game giveaways after completing certain tasks. The contests run through December 20th and three grand prize winners will be awarded 100 games of their choosing. [...] Continue Reading »
Winch Gate today announced the release of a native Linux client for their MMORPG "Ryzom". Interested players can download a ready to run version or compile a version. "After releasing Ryzom to the free software community six months ago, with [...] Continue Reading »
Paradox Interactive today announced a map making contest for "Majesty 2: Kingmaker", giving participants a chance to win a bundle of Paradox games and 100,000 currency points on GamersGate. A few map editor tutorials were also posted on Paradox's Youtube [...] Continue Reading »
There was a countdown timer on the BioWare website that has now ended, revealing the "BioWare Bazaar," which will be a series of auctions where players can bid on BioWare swag. Participants must complete challenges to earn tokens for the [...] Continue Reading »
