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For all those of you that have been waiting for the announcement, it is finally time. We are now in the final 24 hours of the Sweepstakes contest we’ve been running for a long time, so if you’ve voted in our Game of the Year polls, but haven’t yet confirmed your participation in the sweepstakes, you’ve got very little time left to do it.
And we’ve got all three of our mega contests up and running, where you stand to win a copy of Halo 3 Legendary Edition Master Chief Helmet, an XFX 8600 GT and a copy of Crysis or a special copy of the BioShock Collector’s Edition with the Big Daddy figurine. All you’ve got to do is crack the codes that we’ve put up in these three posts and solve them. But be warned, they are nowhere near easy!
The Halo 3 “My head won’t fit inside” Contest:
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Prize Sponsor: Microsoft India
The PC “Ima graphix whore” Aficionado Contest:
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Prize Sponsors: The IT Wares / Electronic Arts India
The Big BioShock “Who’s yo Daddy?” Contest:
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Prize Sponsors: e-Xpress Interactive
On the bright side though, we’ve finally decided we’re going to give in to all you guys’ screams and extend the time for the mega prizes from today to the 15th. So you have until 11:59 PM, January 14, 2008 to crack the codes before we close shop and announce the winners for the mega prizes on the 15th. The winners list for the other prizes will go up sometime tomorrow, so be sure to check the Rules and Regulations and make sure you understand them full well. There will be a test later…
Finally, thanks a lot for giving us sadists some of the best fun we’ve ever had in our lives torturing you with fiendish puzzles designed to shave a couple of years off your lives. We will be wrapping up the whole show by posting the remainder of our Game of the Year articles up and announcing the winners, before we waltz off to a marathon TF2-slash-CoD4 session and drop off the face of the earth until the end of the month. Oh, yes, remember to stay tuned, ‘cos we’ve got some major announcements coming up before long and we may even announce another devilishly fun (for us) contest soon enough. And just when you thought it was safe to let your guard down…
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Nailed that bastard! After two weeks of not being able to post anything, and getting our site hijacked and junk posted by some unknown hacker, we’ve managed to isolate him, detect his intrusion and kick him the hell out. Needless to say, this is the last you’ll see of him.
Turns out he’s some asshole called Atlas and he’s the one responsible for all the weird stuff you’ve been seeing on our site for all these days. We couldn’t get a fix on his location, since the weird trace that we ran pointed out that he was somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic. Yeah, right! In any case, we’re not sure what damage he’s caused to our systems, but we managed to retreive one log that he forgot to delete after his hack. Looks like he managed to find some sort of file… but we can’t find it anywhere on our servers. We’ve put up the log of his hack in this post. Goddamn if I know what needs to be done… but at least its over.
We seem to be getting the strangest emails these days. Look at this doozy junk that popped up in my email today morning. We seem to be intercepting some sort of weird military transmissions from an unmapped island somewhere in North Korea. I don’t know what the hell this thing says, but if you guys figure it out, I suppose it will be useful to you somehow. Bloody roten code (SET3-SUBSET6), driving our servers down. First the mail infection and now this, what the hell am I even gonna do? Maybe I should take a closer look at this crysis. ARG! I’m gonna go stark, raving mad any day now…
CODE CLASSIFICATION TOP SECRET UMBRA
HAIL CEASAR..HAIL CEASAR..
ENCRYPTED MESSAGE FOLLOWS FROM GRID 249-B, PRIORITY SENDER DESIGNATE NOMADOLNVE:UNYB/ZSSQRCYBLRQSEBZP-18NFXLYBEQ.
SVYRYBPNGRQNGGURNATELCVKRYQBGPBZFYNFUVASVAVGRPELFVFQBGRKR.
CEVBEVGLQRPBQR.
YBPNGRFRDHRAGVNYFLZZRGEVPGEVNATHYNGVBAFBARKBOVBGVPGENAFCBEGPNEEVRE.MESSAGE TERMINATES. EYES ONLY.
He knows when you are sleeping,
He knows when you’re on the can,
He’ll hunt you down and bag your ass,
from here to Pakistan..
You better not breathe,
you better not move,
you’re better off dead,
I’m tellin’ you dude… Santa Claus is gunning you down!
Yup, since we don’t have a Robot Santa to blow your asses to kingdom come with a TOW missile (spruced up with mistletoe), we’re just going to sic our ANGRY little pixel-fella on you. But as much as he looks like he’s most eager to shred your precious derriere into confetti, this guy’s actually got a really good heart and wants to spread some of the love around. (No, not that way!) Maybe it’s the Santa cap we put on him, or the cheerful mood this holiday season, what with the snow falling all over the site and all that, but he’s actually got a huge sack filled with Christmas goodies for all you fellas.Don’t believe me? Take a look - all those of you that voted in our Game of the Year awards stand to win some of the most fantastic gaming goodies ever. Hit the jump for the full list.
In every videogame, a hero is needed. It doesn’t matter whether it’s that star quarterback in Madden scoring the touchdown to carry his down-trodden team into over-time to even out the score, or the larger-than-life foundling turned demi-god matching up against the universe to save his planet - heroes are what define our projection in a videogame. They allow us to sympathise, to imagine, to put ourselves in the same situation, and add to our intelligence and morals. In a way, they help the gamer outside the fictional lingua franca to mature by way of an experience befitting any Ratchet, Link or Chief. Funny that - rather than by the scale of their deeds, including rescuing their seemingly immortal ageless princesses, it’s now how popular they should be rather than would be. In the business dominion, Mario, for instance, sells. Quality of the game, money well spent, a fun experience, an SOS from Nintendo begging for something else to work on - they can all be represented by his red-bottomed, unshaven mug. More Mario franchises would lead to more adulation from gamers (and their moolah, as a bonus) according to Corporate Santa, who then spreads his love around the world with Mario Strikers, Mario Party and Paper Mario like every freaking 24 hour-span is Jesus’s birthday. But gamers only have so much to give; some one is bound to get over-shadowed in the exchange, namely the “other” heroes and heroines. Like it or not, these underdogs, in terms of either recognition or success, have gotten much less compared to your usual magnanimous mantles.
However, enjoying their exploits for what they are isn’t difficult, since they’re part of some wickedly fun - and if you’re a collector, rare - titles.
Yes, we know most of us disappeared for a couple of days, but the reason why we did should be staring right back at you! That’s right, not only do we have a spanking new look, but we’re involving you, our readers, in deeper ways than ever before. The first of these endeavors is The Angry Pixel and GamingIndians Game of the Year 2007 awards, which allows you to take control and vote for your favorite games across a multitude of categories.
We’ll just cut the crap right here so that you don’t have wait here any longer, but before you go, do remember to come back on the 20th of this month, when we will start giving out the accolades, inexorably building up to the major awards before revealing the Almighty Game of the Year 2007 on the last day of the year and welcome 2008 with great flourish. And maybe some blood sacrifices.
And if you want another great reason to stay tuned to our GotY awards, we’ve got something really great coming up soon, but you’re gonna have to wait and find out. *Shhh! It’s a secret!*
So, what are you waiting for? Rush to the nominee list and stamp your mark of approval all over the hot favorites and once you are done, head on to the GamingIndians’ forum to discuss your favorite games and why they deserve to win over all the others.
In this third and final analytic construct on games that serve as examples of fine art in their acoustic, visual, and narrative formats, a total of six games are highlighted. This list presents select legendary franchises that gave birth to a new wave for games to follow while still retaining their arty identity. Others stand out for their sheer level of dementia and emotional context, while some initiated a new world (or two), one character and dialogue piece at a time. So here they are: the end-result of a nearly one month of writing and a short, rather, incomplete, yet insightful register of art in gaming.