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Viewing Category: Competitions
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Winners Announced for Halflife2.net Poem Competition
Posted @ 7:47 PM, November 19 2009, By: Hectic Glenn In Competitions, News
Many thanks to everyone who entered our competition to write a love poem to the Spitter. We had a massive response and I needed the help of our 3 poetic overlords to judge this contest. I passed on all entries (without names) to Sulkdodds, Ennui & KineticAesthetic and this is what they had to say: You ‘orrible lot. There’s not a poet among you. We have judged you, and we have judged you harshly. Perhaps it would be going too far to say that these stupendously fortunate winners are merely the best of a bad bunch. But we cannot lie: there wasn’t a single entry that didn’t at some point make the judges groan in genuine abdominal pain. Still, we suffered through it, as you did for your art – or perhaps more accurately for a copy of Left 4 Dead 2.
Therefore, without further ado: WE, the sublime triumvirate, all-seeing, all-sensing guardians of the literary canon, harbingers of the critical eschaton, eaters of the sacred flesh of the English corpus, judges of all space and all time, and according to the powers invested in us by a non-absolutist metaphysics, HEREBY ORDAIN that the winners of the halflife2.net poetry competition, to be feted throughout the halls of eternity for...um...eternity, and to dwell forever in Elysium atop of Mount Parnassus, SHALL BE:- Kilobyte
- The-One-Free-Man
- themoo
- Matthew Dryden
- Toaster leigh
Big props to all the winners and thanks to everyone who entered! You can read the 5 winning poems right here - Winning Poem Entries.PS: To the guy whose poem came with definitions: many thanks, but actually we know what words mean. We have heads the size of Volkswagens.
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Winner For Our ‘Design a Grip’ Contest For Novint Falcon
Posted @ 8:42 PM, November 9 2009, By: Hectic Glenn In Competitions
Novint have announced the winner of the 'design a grip' contest halflife2.net hosted a couple weeks back. Tom from Novint apologised for the delay in judging, it's a busy old job working at Novint these days! They judges decided on five honorable mentions, one runner up, and one winner. The winner is: gkaee - Who designed a sword handle grip. Congratulations on winning a Novint Falcon! For the runner up and five honourable mentions, Novint will have kindly provided a certificate for all hard work put into the entries they saw. The runner up is: Lone Wolf - Who designed an alternate pistol grip. Congratulations on winning a $150 certificate towards the purchase of the $199 Falcon bundle. The 5 honourable mentions go to: Mooodan, kgwhipp, The Cake is a Pie, Marler and Terrox. Congratulations on winning a $125 certificate towards the purchase of the $199 Falcon bundle. Novint have also kindly provided certificates to all entrants who were not mentioned to the value of $100 towards the purchase of the $199 Falcon bundle! Many thanks to Novint for their incredible generosity and community involvement. Please PM Pi Mu Rho with your details for us to co-ordinate prizes.
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Win A Copy of Left 4 Dead 2 – Write Us A Poem
Posted @ 8:05 PM, November 8 2009, By: Hectic Glenn In Competitions
Here at Halflife2.net, we've come over all soft. Thanks to Valve, we have 5 copies of Left 4 Dead 2 to give away in our competition. All we want to you do is write a love poem to the spitter, one of the new special infected in Left 4 Dead 2. We think she's worth it.  Some rules: - Entries must be in English
- Entries must be original work
- Entries must be between 8 and 100 lines long
- Entries must be in poem form (Interpret that last one however you like; we suggest the venerable sonnet. Read our poem writing guide by Sulkdodds here)
All poems should be titled Ode To The Spitter. Please send your entry to competitions@halflife2.net with your HL2.net username in the email subject. One entry per user, competition closes 17th November (as L4D2 unlocks). Good luck!
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Hammerfight on Steam (Competition) + HL2.net Facebook
Posted @ 6:26 PM, November 4 2009, By: Hectic Glenn In Competitions
The indie title Hammerfight is now available on Steam. This fun little game by developers Konstantin Koshutin is based around using physics to smash your way through the game. A unique combat system is based on realistic physics simulation, and it ties the movements of the rider to the movements of your mouse. As you wave the mouse, your rider swings his warhammer, smashing the foe into the wall! We also have 5 free copies of this game to give away! Bluewolf72 will be doing this competition through our Halflife2.net Facebook group, so go join us and check it out!
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Halflife2.net Halloween Competition
Posted @ 12:00 PM, October 31 2009, By: DigiQ8 In Competitions
Jigsaw has kidnapped our Lead Editor Hectic Glenn! And he wants us to play one of his sick games so we can get Glenn back.
If you wanna help Glenn you have to follow Jigsaw's instructions.
He's asking the members of Halflife2.net to post their best Halloween costumes while holding a sign which says 'Boo Halflife2.net".
We're offering 5 keys for SAW: The Game for the best 5 costumes. Deadline you say? Sunday, November 1st - 12:00AM GMT.
So are you gonna help Glenn live or just leave him to die? Make your choice now, the time is running out!
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Metal Drift on Steam & Competition
Posted @ 5:39 PM, October 20 2009, By: Hectic Glenn In Competitions, Steam Games
 Metal Drift, by Black Jacket Studios is available through Steam on 23rd October, however you can win a copy and gain access to the early beta for the game today! Metal
Drift isn't too distant from the old face of Wipeout, including epic multiplayer battles. Metal Drift is a vehicular sport combat game set in a distant future. As the player, you command an agile, high powered hover tank in a futuristic sports arena. Core game play centers on intense tank-on-tank multiplayer team combat seen through an immersive, first person cockpit. Metal Drift is set in the future with a vast choice of futuristic weaponry, but what modern day weaponry would you add to your own car to make it suitable for a scrap against other HL2.net members and their battling vehicles? Best ideas & entertaining entries will win, good luck. Competition closes 22/10/09 @ midnight.
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Darkest of Days Brings the Light To Halflife2.net
Posted @ 3:57 PM, September 17 2009, By: BlueWolf72 In Competitions, Steam Games
Thanks to our pals at 8monkey Labs the creators of the fun game Darkest of Days. We bring you again 5 chances to win a version of the game on Steam. Darkest of Days players travel back and forth through the annals of time to relive some of mankind’s most dire hours, when human society was at its lowest points. Players can even play " The Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest conflict of the Civil War" along with other aspects of war.
As for the contest you must tell us what war you would of wanted to travel back to along with what weapons you would of used to win the war and why. Use your imagination to explain, and you just might win. I will hand out the 5 keys on September 19th randomly. Again I will be awarding them to you via our forums with a private message. Make sure you are also in our Community Reviewers Program as Glenn will be picking someone to do a review for us.
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Can you manipulate the flow of time – Braid
Posted @ 12:59 PM, September 10 2009, By: BlueWolf72 In Competitions, Steam Games
Number None's popular puzzle-platformer, Braid, is on sale at 66% off ($4.99) this weekend on Steam. To help get the word out we are giving some keys away to this fun game on Steam. I will make the contest very simple. Tell us what you would do if you could time travel. I will send you a private message so you can enjoy this awesome game. I will randomly select 5 lucky winners. Good luck to all!
Braid is a puzzle-platformer, drawn in a painterly style, where you can manipulate the flow of time in strange and unusual ways. From a house in the city, journey to a series of worlds and solve puzzles to rescue an abducted princess. In each world, you have a different power to affect the way time behaves, and it is time's strangeness that creates the puzzles. The time behaviors include: the ability to rewind, objects that are immune to being rewound, time that is tied to space, parallel realities, time dilation, and perhaps more.
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‘Aaaaa! Game’ Weekend Competition
Posted @ 6:59 PM, September 4 2009, By: BlueWolf72 In Competitions, Steam Games
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! from Dejobaan Games has some love for Halflife2.net for which we send our thanks back. We are giving away 5 copies of this game for the 5 top scores from the official demo on Steam.
Install the demo and on the main menu click 'jump'. We want to see your top scores from one level in particular, the cube is called: We're Moving on Up to the East Side Because We're Rich. You will need to unlock some abilities to get points higher than other players! Please submit a screenshot of your score at the end of your jump.
You dive off a skyscraper, relying on quick reflexes to negotiate the intricate tangle of girders that make up the floating city. All eyes are on you as the judges mark your score. One hundred points for hugging those exposed struts as you fall. A thousand for planting a kiss on the side of that building. Twisting and turning, you thread the needle between two billboards, earning cheers from your fans. Features:
- 80 levels take you through cities of floating billboards and buildings, and fly you inches away from the side of a mountain.
- Unique game mechanics allow you to create your own stunts to score.
- Give your fans the thumbs-up for points, or annoy protesters with rude gestures.
- Snag a can of spray paint and tag government buildings for an extra challenge.
- Special meditation mode helps you relax, with free anti-meditation mode to help you stop relaxing.
Competition closes midnight GMT Sunday 6th, top 5 scores by this time win. Our very own Kinslayer who got a Steam Key has written up a review!
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Tuesday Trine Giveaway
Posted @ 6:00 PM, August 31 2009, By: BlueWolf72 In Competitions
A huge thanks to the Frozenbyte team for sending over a few copies of Trine on Steam, for us to give away to Halflife2.net. If you live under a rock, you may not played this amazingly fun and beautiful game. The gist of it is that three characters - a Thief, a Wizard, and a Knight - all touch a fabled artefact known as the Trine, which binds them together. The only way to free themselves, it seems, is to track down the other artefacts related to it, and so begins their quest, in a world that's been rather suddenly blighted by the undead.
To win a copy of Trine, we think you should dress up, as a wizard in fact! Throw together your best costume from what you can put together, and hold a sign saying " I'm a wizard, Halflife2.net". This competition is open for only 1 day, so hurry! We will award prizes to the best costumes submitted. Good luck.
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Novint Falcon Design a Grip Contest!
Posted @ 12:36 PM, August 28 2009, By: Pi Mu Rho In Competitions
With the Falcon giveaways now over, we're happy to announce that Novint are providing two more Falcons for us to give away in this contest. You're going to have to work for these ones, though. What we want you to do is come up with the best design for a new Falcon grip. For those of you not knowing all that much about the Falcon controller, these are the standard grip and the pistol grip, respectively:
So basically, the bit that you hold. Now, it doesn't have to be a realistic, or even feasible design (although those are obviously just as welcome) - you can go as crazy as you like. Just keep it clean - we don't want anything R-rated. Artistic ability is not a requirement for this - we're looking for the idea. However, a well-drawn, photoshopped, modelled or sculpted entry is obviously going to catch the judge's eyes. So get to work, Halflife2.net - show us what you can do!
Rules
- All entrants must be registered forum members.
- To enter, email your design to competitions@halflife2.net with your username in the subject of the email.
- One entry per person.
- Competition closing date is September 25th, 2009
If you have any questions, feel free to comment below.
Good luck!
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Third and Final Novint Falcon Giveaway!
Posted @ 3:08 AM, August 27 2009, By: Pi Mu Rho In Competitions
Surprise! Novint have provided us with one last Falcon to give away. Continuing the Left 4 Dead theme, this giveaway will be somewhat similar to the previous one. I played another game of Left 4 Dead recently, using my Falcon. This time, I played the Blood Harvest campaign on Expert, just myself and the AI bots. What you have to guess is:
How long in seconds did I last before dying?
For the sake of clarity, this is the time between me starting the demo recording at the start of playing, and stopping it when I died. The time for each demo, as listed in the console, added together is the figure we're using here.
Rules
- One guess per person.
- No duplicate guesses - if your guess is the same as one already posted, then yours won't count.
- Only members who joined prior to Thursday, August 20th may enter.
- The guess that is closest to the actual time without going over will win the Falcon.
- The contest will run for 24 hours from the time of this post.
As a reminder for those of you who may be unsure what the Falcon is and what it can do, take a look at my review here.Also remember that you can buy a Novint Falcon with a 20% discount. All you have to do is use the referral code "HL2NET" when you buy. You can find Novint's promotional Left 4 Dead page here.
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Novint Contest – Falcon vs Mouse Revisited
Posted @ 10:27 AM, August 26 2009, By: Pi Mu Rho In Competitions
Hey All, this is tomnovint, Novint's CEO.
With the official release of Falcon support in Left 4 Dead (Novint put a lot of effort integrating Falcon support into L4D specifically), we wanted to have another community event - another contest - this time involving both the Left 4 Dead community and the Team Fortress 2 community. Left 4 Dead has been one of our most anticipated games to support the Falcon, and has easily been one of our beta testers favorites. Team Fortress 2 is a blast with the Falcon. I've been playing a lot recently myself.
We had quickly thrown together a contest a month ago for Team Fortress 2, in which we gave away a bunch of Falcons, and there was a lot of interest. It was a lot of fun. I've gotten many emails and PM's since then asking about when we would do another contest, but we were waiting for the L4D release.
This time, we're going to take a little more time, and make it a little more formal. We're also going to be giving away a lot more free Falcons for this contest, so it's going to be a bigger event this time around!!
You can find more information about the Falcon here (including a video). There's a two week special going on given the Left 4 Dead release, which you might check out in the link. You can get a Falcon bundle (including pistol grip and software) for as low as $139 ($174 plus a 20% discount if you use the Halflife2.net referral code, HL2NET. This is definitely one of the best Falcon deals we've done yet this year for the Steam community, so it's worth checking out.
The point of this post is to get feedback on the contest, and listen to what people think about how we should do it. Here is some of what we were initially thinking on the contest... [Read More...]
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