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 Borderlands USB Key and ShirtWe've got a hot tiny little 512mb Borderlands USB key and t-shirt (size: small!) to give away:  The first person to answer the following questions scores the goods: 1) What is the name of the planet on which Borderlands is set? 2) What are the names of the four player characters? 3) What is the name of the founder and CEO of Gearbox? ENTER NOW! Borderlands From Gearbox Software and 2K Games comes Borderlands, an amalgamation of the First Person Shooter and Role Playing Game genres with a healthy does of cooperative multiplayer pulling it all together - Available Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 from October 23rd 2009 and Windows PC on October 30th 2009. Borderlands combines the best in first-person action with player customization and vehicular combat to deliver an exciting Role-Playing Shooter experience. The game features a groundbreaking content generation system allowing for near-endless variety in weapons and item drops. Borderlands allows for multiple players to share the same game experience simultaneously online in co-op gameplay. Players can freely join or leave each other's games at anytime, or choose to play in the full single-player mode. These features, along with a rich and deep fiction that touches upon the mysteries buried beneath the surface of a danger-filled planet, combine to form a breakthrough experience that challenges the conventions of modern shooters. Thanks to 2K Games Australia, AusGamers has 5 copies of the PC version of Borderlands to giveaway, as well as some neato accessories sure to make you the envy of your fellow road warriors and entering is easy! All you have to do is tell us, in 25 words or less: If you could combine anything to make a weapon, what would your ultimate design consist of? >> Enter Now! <<5 Lucky Winners will receive a prize-pack containing the following:
    Warhawk NotebooksWe've got two neato Warhawk notebooks from the promo package Sony sent out for this acclaimed PlayStation 3 action title!The first two people to correctly answer the following questions will score a notepad each.   1) What are the names of the two aircraft that came with the base game? 2) What are the four game types Warhawk shipped with? ENTER NOW! Star Wars Chewie Pen Anyone want a Star Wars connect'n'build pen? This was given to us at GDC in San Francisco this year at a LucasArts party. They also gave us mini-hamburgers and beer, but they are in much worse condition.First person to answer the following questions correctly will get it delivered. 1) Roughly how big is a womp rat? 2) How fast did the Falcon do the Kessel run? 3) What planet are Wookies from? Bioshock Promo BoxWe've got a box of collectible goodies that we were sent as part of the promotions for Bioshock - and now it can be yours.  The first person to answer the following questions about Bioshock will score the box! 1) What is the name of the city in which Bioshock is set? 2) What is the name of the writer behind the story line? 3) What engine does Bioshock use? Giveaway completed! Wolfenstein Medal Facebook Comp Wolfenstein is the original FPS. There's a new one on the horizon, and gamers everywhere are drooling in anticipation. We've got this old RTCW promotional toy lying around and thought some people might be interested in taking it off our hands. First person to answer the following questions wins! 1) What is the name of character in Wolf3d ? 2) What was the name of the real-life Nazi douchebag that was behind the supernatural plot in RTCW? 3) What are the names of the official maps in ET? Killzone 2 In February, Sony gave us another great reason to own a PlayStation 3, Guerilla Game's exclusive Killzone 2 (AusGamers 8.9/10), a hard hitting first person shooter and one of the most graphically impressive titles released to-date, as well as one of the most anticipated PlayStation 3 games ever. Once again set in an extreme post-modern war, Killzone 2 utilizes the power of PLAYSTATION 3 to deliver a striking graphical style that showcases a gritty realism unique to the Killzone franchise. Two years after the Helghast assault on Vekta, the ISA is taking the fight to the enemy’s home world of Helghan. The ISA goal is direct: capture the Helghast leader, Emperor Visari, and bring the Helghast war machine to a halt. Assuming the role of Sev, a battle-hardened veteran and a member of the special forces unit known as the Legion, players will lead a group of highly trained soldiers on a mission to take out the Helghast threat. For Sev and his squad, the invasion of Helghan is just the beginning. Thanks to Sony Computer Entertainment Australia, AusGamers has 10 copies of the tin-box limited edition of Killzone 2 as well as 10 Killzone 2 posters to give away and entering is easy! All you have to do is tell us, in 25 words or less: If you created a game called ____zone 2, what would it be about? The first word can be anything of your choosing (profanity excluded) so be creative! 10 winners will each receive 1 limited edition copy of Killzone 2 and one Killzone 2 poster. >> Enter Now! <<Note: Due to problems with prize supply the length of the competition has been extended by 2 weeks. Knowing Movie Tickets Knowing is EverythingAcademy Award® winner Nicolas Cage (National Treasure 2, Leaving Las Vegas) stars in KNOWING, the next gripping action-thriller of global proportions from Australian visionary Alex Proyas (I, Robot, The Crow). When a professor stumbles on a set of coded numbers, written in 1959 and buried in a time capsule at his son's school, he makes a startling discovery. The cryptic message predicts every major disaster of the past 50 years and holds chilling predictions about future catastrophes—the last of which hints at destruction on a global scale. Thanks to Icon Film Distribution Australia, AusGamers has 30 double passes to Knowing as well as 10 promotional keyring lights to give away and entering is easy! All you have to do is tell us, in 25 words or less: What would be the funniest thing to put in a time capsule and why? Enter Now The 10 best entries will receive an in-season double pass to Knowing and keyring light, the following 20 will receive a free double pass. The double pass tickets admit two and can redeemable at most major cinema locations Australian wide from March 26th 2009. Top Spin 3 The 2009 Australian Open kicks off in Melbourne on January 19, so what better time to get into Top Spin 3. Created by 2K's critically acclaimed Paris studio, PAM Development, Top Spin 3 immerses players in a visually and physically realistic tennis experience. Using next generation technology, gameplay and graphics, Top Spin 3 is a benchmark-setting tennis experience with dynamic weather changes, evolutionary player visuals and the most comprehensive online offerings.Thanks to 2K Sports, AusGamers has some great Top Spin related goodies to give away and entering is easy. All you have to do is tell us, in 25 words or less: Which tennis player should appear on the cover of Top Spin 4 and why? Enter Now 1 Major Prize Pack which includes: - 1 copy of Top Spin 3 for PlayStation 3 - 1 copy of Top Spin 3 for Nintendo DS - 1 Babolat Backpack - 1 Top Spin 3 T-shirt - 1 Top Spin 3 Umbrella 4 Runner Up Prizes Packs which include: - 1 Top Spin 3 t-shirt - 1 Top Spin 3 umbrella The Wrestler Movie Tickets Love. Pain. Glory.Back in the late 1980s, Randy "The Ram" Robinson (Rourke) was a champion professional wrestler. Now, 20 years later, he ekes out a living in New Jersey. The wrestling ring is the only place of comfort to him in a world he finds alienating. Following a setback, Randy begins to evaluate his life and his relationship with his estranged daughter. The Wrestler is exhilarating entertainment, delivering just the right amount of raw action balanced with an affecting story which will stun audiences. Thanks to Hopscotch Films, AusGamers has 15 double passes to The Wrestler to give away and entering is easy! All you have to do is tell us, in 25 words or less: What is the scariest thing in the world to wrestle and why? Enter Now The 15 best entries will receive a free double pass, redeemable at several major cinema locations in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth from January 15 2009. Fallout 3 Shirt RSS CompetitionAt Leipzig Games Convention this year, the Fallout 3 team were giving out t-shirts in their demo booth. This t-shirt has traveled from Leipzig to Berlin, Athens, a number of Greek islands, Rome, Pompeii, Geneva, Nice, Paris, Biarritz, Munich, Brussels, Amsterdam, Maastricht, and Gent before making it back to Australia to end up here. All you've got to do is answer the following questions: 1) What year was the original Fallout released? 2) Where was your home in the original Fallout? 3) Where and on what date was the first nuclear weapon used in a war dropped (remember: nuclear war isn't always a game)? Hellboy 2 Movie TicketsSaving the world is a hell of a jobWith a signature blend of action, humor and character-based spectacle, the saga of the world's toughest, kitten-loving hero continues to unfold in Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Bigger muscle, badder weapons and more ungodly villains arrive in an epic vision of imagination from Oscar-nominated direction Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy). Thanks to Australian Multiplex Cinemas, AusGamers has 30 double passes to Hellboy II: The Golden Army to give away and entering is easy! All you have to do is tell us in 25 words or less: which Hellboy character would you most like to be, and why? Note: Tickets are for a preview screening at AMC Stafford 10 Cinemas on August 25 2008. Entries are therefore open to Brisbane, Queensland residents only. Doom 3 Shirt RSS CompetitionI've discovered a Doom 3 shirt I've had lying around for years. First person to answer the following questions will score it!1) What year was the original Doom game released? 2) What moon of Mars is the original Doom set on? 3) At the end of Doom 2, whose head (impaled on a spike) did you have to shoot to finish the last level?  Competition over!Congrats to Tim of Victoria for his winning entry. Spore Swag - RSS CompI've got a copy of the Spore Creature Creator and a sweet EA notebook, hot off the plane from E3 in Los Angeles. They're taking up space on my desk so they're up for grabs to the first person that answers the below questions!1) What's the name of the main man behind Spore? 2) What are the 5 stages you'll play as you make your way through the game? 3) What month is Spore coming out this year? Competition Closed!Thanks to all that participated.VisionTek 4850 Competition Thanks to AMD, we've got a hot new VisionTek Mass Effect 4850 bundle to give away, featuring one of the hottest new video cards along with one of the biggest RPG games to land for PC in recent times!The VisionTek ATI Radeon HD 4850 brings the power of graphics supercomputing to gamers, setting a new standard for visual computing. Redefine the way you play and take HD gaming to the extreme with best-in-class performance. The new TeraScale graphics engine delivers an immersive, cinematic gaming experience. Add this GPU to your PC and watch Blu-ray movies and play HD content with incredible visual fidelity. Humanity is at risk, on the brink of total annihilation in Mass Effect. You've seen the many various classes available - now it's your turn to create your own! What special, unique power and abilities would your player have to help secure the future of humanity? Would your class be a destructive, lethal class, focused on vanquishing the evils in the universe? Or would it be passive in nature, concentrating on defending humanity? Try relating your class to the aliens in the game - what would happen upon first encounter? Be creative! All we need is 50 words (or less) with your most creative and entertaining idea and you're in the running! Enter now. Battlefield 2 Stats KingWhile Battlefield 2 might be getting long in the tooth, it's still a massively popular game online with thousands of people still playing it on a daily basis, all battling for supremacy both in the individual game they're playing at the moment and in the global rankings.In order to foster some more serious competition amongst the hardcore BF2 fans out there in the AusGamers community, we're running a competition to reward the 10 highest-ranked soldiers with a copy of Battlefield 2142. How to enter! All you have to do to enter is join our Battlefield 2 leaderboard! Just follow the following steps: 1) Create an account and log into the AusGamers site. 2) Edit your profile and put in your Battlefield 2 nickname. 3) Go to the Leaderboard page 4) In the left-side search box, enter your BF2 nickname to search for your statistics. 5) That's it! The top 10 ranked AusGamers members at the end of the month will each receive a copy of Battlefield 2142, so fire it up and start fighting! Mongol Movie Tickets To some he was a brutal leader. To others he was a god. Mongol is the Academy Award-nominated movie that tells the life and legend of Genghis Khan, from his birth in 1162, through his perilous childhood and to the mammoth battle that sealed his destiny as a conqueror. AusGamers and Hopscotch Films have a bunch of double passes to some advanced screenings between the 13th and 15th of June! The first 35 people to dive in and let us know they're keen to check this huge title out (you'll need to be in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide or Perth though). Click below to watch the trailer! Half-Life 2 T-shirt RSS CompThe first person to correctly answer the following questions about the Half-Life series will win a Half-Life 2 t-shirt (XL)! Questions: 1) What is the name of the research facility from the first Half-Life game? 2) What famous game engine was used as the basis for the the first Half-Life game? 3) What is the name of the security guard? 4) What is the name of the map that brought HDR lighting to Half-Life 2? Competition Closed! Congratulations to Tim for being the first to submit the correct answers: 1. Black Mesa 2. Quake 3. Barney Calhoun 4. Lost Coast ETQW Dogtags - RSS CompetitionThe first person to correctly answer the following questions about the Enemy Territory and Quake worlds will win a set of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars dog tags and matching 512mb USB memory stick!1) In the original QUAKE, what was the codename of the enemy from the "story"? 2) What is the reward for Level 4 Light Weapons in Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory? 3) According to the ET:QW histories, what year did the Stroggos invade Earth? Competition over!Congratulations to Aaron C who has won the dogtags! AusGamers Survey CompetitionIf you've filled out the AusGamers 2008 Survey, you're eligible to enter one of the biggest competitions AusGamers has run!All you have to do is let us know in 50 words or less what your dream feature for a gaming website is. The best, most creative and most innovative response will win an Xbox 360 system, bringing you into the next-generation console world! Not only that but the two runner-ups will receive a Nintendo DS package, for the ultimate in handheld gaming. So - hit the survey, sign up for the competition and answer the question: "If you were inventing a feature for a gaming website, what would it be?" Click here to enter! |
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