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December 13th, 2009 at 08:30pm
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Update: We’ve closed the comments and will contact a winner this week. Check the email tied to your commenter name, folks!
For this week’s not-quite-the-holidays-yet giveaway, we’ve got a Band Hero prize pack for the Nintendo Wii and DS lined up for one lucky winner. That’s right! Not just Band Hero for your silly old home console, but also for your handheld (that is, unless you have a Nintendo DSi or XXL — sorry!). Prepare to be embraced by friends and relatives as a genuine American (or Canadian, excluding Quebec) hero while playing along to your favorite Taylor Swift song.
In honor of last night’s Video Game Awards (and the subsequent flood of news and trailers), we’re asking you to tell us what your favorite trailer or news was from the World Premiere-stravaganza. We’ll pick one winner at random this week, so as always, be sure to keep an eye on the inbox!
- Leave a comment telling us what your favorite trailer or news was from last night’s World Premiere-stravaganza (the VGAs).
- You must be 18 years or older and a resident of the US or Canada (excluding Quebec — likely because of The Kids in the Hall).
- Limit 1 entry per person per day
- This entry period ends at 7:31PM ET on Monday, December 13
- At that time, we’ll randomly select one winner to receive one copy of Band Hero for Nintendo DS ($50 ARV) and one copy of Band Hero for Nintendo Wii ($50 ARV).
- For a list of complete rules, click here
What is Joyswag? Since we don’t keep the games and merchandise we receive for review or promotional purposes, it becomes “Joyswag,” which is passed along to our readers. For more info on our policy, click here.
Swag Sunday: Band Hero for everything Nintendo [update] originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 11th, 2009 at 10:30pm
Under Xbox 360
We can’t be gaming all the time, despite our best efforts, and from time to time we’ll actually take advantage of the movie-playing abilities on our gaming systems. JBO features our top picks for XBL, PSN, Netflix’s Watch Instantly and Blu-ray each week.
With the holidays in mind, we’re going to be giving away … wait for it … MOVIES with each
Joystiq Box Office post on Friday from today through January 1! Simply leave a comment below telling us what you’ll be watching on your Xbox, PS3, PC, PSP, DS, OMG or whatever, and we’ll pick two winners at random each week to receive a nifty prize. This week we’ll be giving away one copy of Disney/Pixar’s amazing
Up and one copy of the romantic comedy
The Ugly Truth. Now before you cringe in terror over a Katherine Heigl / Gerard Butler romcom, consider this: It’ll make your movie collection look sensitive. Both movies come with an additional digital copy that you can stick on your computer, your PSP, your iPod, what have you. Read the complete rules at the end of this post, and good luck!
Recommendation of the Week:
The Mel Brooks Collection (Blu-ray, $139.99 suggested retail)
I can’t recommend this set highly enough. First of all, it includes nine Mel Brooks films:
Twelve Chairs, To Be Or Not To Be, Silent Movie, History of the World: Part 1, High Anxiety, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs and
Robin Hood: Men in Tights, many of which are making their Blu-ray debut. Second, it includes a ton of extra features: just the
Young Frankenstein disc alone is loaded with tons of fun stuff, including a “Blücher Button” for instant horse whinnying sounds. Third, it’s packaged in a long case containing an artbook about all about Mel Brooks and his movies called “All About Mel Brooks.” Fourth, it’s Mel Brooks, and you need a few laughs in high definition. Amazon has this right now for
$92.99, whittling it down to almost ten bucks a movie. You won’t be sorry.
Read on for the rest of the recommendations, and as usual, we’ll see you at the popcorn sta — well, actually, we won’t see you at all. But you catch our drift. Plus, be sure to tell us what you’ll be watching, or what you’ve seen recently that bowled you over.
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JBO: Joystiq Box Office, December 7 – December 11, plus Joyswag! originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 5th, 2009 at 10:30pm
Under DS
Update: The comments have closed and the winner will be contacted shortly. Thanks to everyone for participating!
If you’re anything like us, you’ll be spending a decent part of your holiday stuck in the seat of a train, bus, automobile, or aeroplane, heading towards wherever “home” is for the upcoming holidays. We know how nice it can be to pick up a new game or two for the travels ahead, and in the spirit of that we’re giving out a DS/PSP travel pack for this week’s Swag Saturday including both Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. Tell us your best (gaming or non-gaming) holiday travel story (keep it clean, folks! — no “mile high club” stories!) and we’ll pick one winner at random to receive the travel pack early this week. As always, keep an eye on the email address tied to your commenting name to find out if you’ve won!
- Leave a comment telling us your best (gaming or non-gaming) holiday travel story.
- You must be 18 years or older and a resident of the US or Canada (excluding Quebec — which may have to do with the Ubisoft Petz franchise)
- Limit 1 entry per person per day
- This entry period ends at 9:31PM ET on Sunday, December 6
- At that time, we’ll randomly select one winner to receive one copy of Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days for Nintendo DS ($35 ARV) and one copy of Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny for Sony PSP ($40 ARV).
- For a list of complete rules, click here
Swag Saturday: Soul Calibur / Kingdom Hearts travel pack (DS/PSP) originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 29th, 2009 at 11:30pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
Update: Comments have been closed and winners will be contacted shortly. If you’re not checking those inboxes yet, now would be a good time to start doing so!
We know we’ve been pushing nothing but family entertainment on you with our Swag Saturday posts for a few weeks now, and, well, this week isn’t much different. We’ve got a prize pack full of two “2010 Edition” Nintendo Wii games that are sure to get the family together and, quite possibly, at each others throats (in a wholesome kinda way): Family Feud and The Price is Right! Hey, one of those even has the word “family” in the title!
To get your hands on the prize pack, all you have to do is leave a comment telling us what your favorite game show of all time is. We’ll pick a winner at random from the entries sometime this week, so be sure to check those inboxes!
- Leave a comment telling us what your favorite game show of all time is.
- You must be 18 years or older and a resident of the US or Canada (excluding Quebec — partially because of Céline Dion, mostly because of Alanis Morissette)
- Limit 1 entry per person per day
- This entry period ends at 10:31PM ET on Monday, November 30
- At that time, we’ll randomly select one winner to receive one copy of The Price is Right for Nintendo Wii ($40 ARV) and one copy of Family Feud for Nintendo Wii ($40 ARV).
- For a list of complete rules, click here
Swag Sunday: Game show giveaway extravaganza! (Wii) originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 21st, 2009 at 07:00pm
Under Xbox 360
Here it is, folks: your chance to beat up relatives all throughout the holiday season, albeit from the relative safeness of Tekken 6’s confines! For this week’s Swag Saturday, we’re giving out a copy of Tekken 6 for the Xbox 360 to one lucky commenter who tells us which fictitious holiday character (think: Santa, the Easter Bunny) they’d like to beat up the most, and with which Tekken 6 character they’d like to do so with. Fancy a battle of Kuma vs The Tooth Fairy? Perhaps Jack-6 vs George Washington (wait, he was real?!)? We want to hear about it!
- Leave a comment telling us which fictitious holiday character (Santa, the Easter Bunny, etc.) you’d like to beat up most, and with which Tekken 6 character they’d like to do so with.
- You must be 18 years or older and a resident of the US or Canada (excluding Quebec, mostly due to the gravitational quotient of poutine)
- Limit 1 entry per person per day
- This entry period ends at 6:01PM ET on Sunday, November 22
- At that time, we’ll randomly select one winner to receive one copy of Tekken 6 for Xbox 360 ($60 ARV).
- For a list of complete rules, click here
What is Joyswag? Since we don’t keep the games and merchandise we receive for review or promotional purposes, it becomes “Joyswag,” which is passed along to our readers. For more info on our policy, click here.
Swag Saturday: Tekken 6 (360) originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 18th, 2009 at 11:30am
Under DS
Update: The entry period has come to a close. Keep an eye on your email’s inbox to see if you won!
Namco’s just unleashed its first two Dragon Ball games after wrestling the license back away from Atari and we’re looking to gift one of you Super Saiyan wannabes with the above prize pack. The gotta-have-it item is obviously the Instant Anime Character Costume, which features an orange t-shirt, blue wristbands, hair gel and completely ridiculous Namco employee pose cover art. Oh, if only our legal department would let us keep it!
- Leave a comment telling us who your favorite character from the Dragon Ball series is (full list here)
- You must be 18 years or older and a resident of the US or Canada (excluding Quebec)
- Limit 1 entry per person per day
- This entry period ends at 11:59AM ET on Tuesday, November 24
- At that time, we’ll randomly select one winner to receive Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo for Wii ($50 ARV), Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans for DS ($30 ARV) and an Instant Anime Character Costume ($20 ARV)
- For a list of complete rules, click here
Joyswag: Super Saiyan prize pack [update] originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 14th, 2009 at 07:30pm
Under Xbox 360
Update: This contest is officially closed and the winners will be notified shortly. Please check your email inboxes, folks!
With the holiday game release season officially upon us, it’s quite possible that you’ll find yourself (like us) jammed on a couch next to relatives who – at least passingly – show interest in the video games we know and love. Sometimes, these folks even ask to play alongside us, eschewing their morals for entertainment (for shame!). It’s during these times that we reach for our second or third controller. But what if you only have one controller for your PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360? WHAT THEN?! Then you can turn to Swag Saturday for the possibility of winning one!
We’ve got one silver PS3 DualShock 3 and two Halo 3: ODST limited edition controllers to give away to three lucky readers. All you have to do is tell us a story about gaming with family during past holidays in the comments below. We get your crazy stories, you get our fancy controllers – talk about a win-win! Prize winners will be alerted by email early this week, so keep your ear to the internet, folks.
- Leave a comment telling us a story about gaming with family during past holidays.
- You must be 18 years or older and a resident of the US or Canada (excluding Quebec, based on the outcome of the War of 1812)
- Limit 1 entry per person per day
- This entry period ends at 6:31PM ET on Sunday, November 15
- At that time, we’ll randomly select three winners to receive one PS3 DualShock 3 (estimated $55 ARV) or one of two Halo 3: ODST limited edition Xbox 360 controllers (estimated $50 ARV each).
- For a list of complete rules, click here
Swag Saturday: Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 controllers for all those holiday games originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 12th, 2009 at 01:00pm
Under Xbox 360
Update: Congratulations to our winner, Dale, who writes, “This is the best thing that has ever happened to me. Um, I mean, other than marrying my wife.”
Let’s face it, that Modern Warfare 2 robe and slippers set we offered up yesterday was downright impractical. It’s like, where are you even supposed to hang that stuff when you’re not wearing it, you know? Sheesh.
Today, we hope to make amends for our previous oversight by giving away one Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2: Prestige Edition game bundle for Xbox 360 (pictured above). The highlight, of course, is a pair of night vision goggles and a man head on which to hang the specs when they’re not in use. But really, why would you ever, ever take them off?
To enter for your chance to win:
- Leave a comment telling us the scariest thing you ever (thought) you saw in the dark.
- You must be 18 years or older and a resident of the US or Canada (excluding Quebec).
- Limit 1 entry per person.
- This entry period ends at 12:00PM ET on Friday, November 13.
- At that time, we’ll randomly select one winner to receive the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2: Prestige Edition game bundle for Xbox 360 ($149.99 ARV).
- For a list of complete rules, click here.
What is Joyswag? Since we don’t keep the games and merchandise we receive for review or promotional purposes, it becomes “Joyswag,” which is passed along to our readers. For more info on our policy, click here.
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November 11th, 2009 at 01:00pm
Under Xbox 360
Update: The entry period is now closed.
The thing about luxury is that you can never have too much of it. Already picked up Modern Warfare 2? Of course you did — but so what? Have another! Joystiq is giving away a copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for Xbox 360 and, of course, that’s not all … We’re including an exceedingly schweet Astro Gaming A40 Sound System complete with headset, mixamp and Modern Warfare 2 speaker tags.
But wait! In order to make this giveaway truly Hef-worthy, we’re also tossing in a — neatly folded — plush robe and pair of slippers (pipe not included), which are both embroidered with Modern Warfare 2 logos. This ultimate lap-of-luxury set could be yours by following the rules for entry below:
- Leave a comment telling us what your preferred gaming attire is.
- You must be 18 years or older and a resident of the US or Canada (excluding Quebec).
- Limit 1 entry per person.
- This entry period ends at 12:00PM ET on Thursday, November 12.
- At that time, we’ll randomly select one winner to receive a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 game for Xbox 360 ($59.99 ARV), an Astro Gaming A40 Sound System ($249.95 ARV) and a Modern Warfare 2, one-size-fits-all robe and slipper set ($50.00 ARV).
- For a list of complete rules, click here.
What is Joyswag? Since we don’t keep the games and merchandise we receive for review or promotional purposes, it becomes “Joyswag,” which is passed along to our readers. For more info on our policy, click here.
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November 5th, 2009 at 11:15am
Under Wii / Nintendo
With the major pound-packing holidays bearing down on us at breakneck speed, we thought it prudent to help a few of you shed those unwanted love handles with a free copy of Wii Fit Plus. Are you game? See below for how to enter — best of luck!
- Leave a comment telling us whether or not you actively exercise
- You must be 18 years or older and a resident of the US or Canada (excluding Quebec)
- Limit 1 entry per person per day
- This entry period ends at 11:59AM ET on Wednesday, November 11
- At that time, we’ll randomly select one winner to receive Wii Fit Plus for the Nintendo Wii ($20 ARV) and a Wii Fit Plus workout shirt ($20 ARV)
- For a list of complete rules, click here
Joyswag: Wii Fit Plus and a Wii Fit Plus shirt originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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