Very first 4Story film festival
4Story, a popular free-to-play MMORPG developed and published by Zemi Interactive, announced Youtube movie making contest will be commenced.
How to Participate:
1. Create a game play trailer of 4story and upload it on both Youtube, and 4Story official community site at Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/4Story-online-Official-Community/169296962857?ref=mf)
2. Upload the link on the forum, (4Story film festival section) with a short introduction of your video.
Period:
Feb. 19th to Mar. 2nd before the regular maintenance (3rd)
Conditions:
1. The game play trailer must include the game site domain www.4story.com, and the title must include ‘4Story’.
2. The length of game play trailer must be 30 ~ 60 seconds.
3. The game play trailer must only contain 4Story contents, and any other external contents will be disqualified Ex) Screenshot of Playboy Miss November
4. Make sure to Input your character name in the post.
How to win the contest:
It will be fair and simple. The contestant with most views recorded will win the contest.
Winner will be selected during the maintenance on Mar. 2nd and will be announced on Mar. 3rd.
Rewards:
1. First Place: $200 Cash points
2. Second Place: $100 Cash points
3. Third Place: $75 Cash points
4. Participant reward: Race Horse 7 Days Ticket.
More information: www.global.4story.com
Win Big in the Dragonica Online Sweepstakes
Play DragonicaTM Online for a Chance to Win More Than $2,500 in Gift Card Prizes
THQ Inc. and THQ ICE LLC, the recently launched joint venture between THQ and ICE Entertainment focusing on free-to-play online games, announced the start of the Dragonica™ Online Water Series Game Card Sweepstakes giving players a chance to win a $2,500 Best Buy gift card and limited edition Dragonica Online Water Series Game Cards loaded with ICE Cash.
To enter simply register for a free THQ*ICE Passport account, download the official game client and log into Dragonica Online. Existing players will be automatically entered when they log in to the game during the month of January.
Sweepstakes Prizes Include:
· Grand Prize (1 awarded): $2,500 Best Buy gift card
· First Prize (5 awarded): $25 limited edition Dragonica Online Water Series Game Card
· Second Prize (10 awarded): $10 limited edition Dragonica Online Water Series Game Card
The Dragonica Online Water Series Game Card Sweepstakes runs through January 31, 2010. THQ*ICE will randomly select 16 lucky winners including one grand prize winner, five first prize winners and ten second prize winners. For the official list of rules, please visit: http://passport.thqice.com/ui_web/official_rules.html.
THQ*ICE has also announced today it is extending its rewards program for Dragonica Online players who purchase collectible Water Series Game Cards. The Water Series Game Cards, sold exclusively at Best Buy retail stores, are available in $25 and $10 values. Players who redeem a $25 Water Series Game Card will receive bonus in-game items including an Armor of Vries Set, a Water Series Wreath, and a Holiday Reindeer Randolph Pet Egg. Players who redeem a $10 Water Series Game Card will receive an in-game Water Series Wreath. These bonus items are for a limited time only and will be changed to new bonus items next month.
Developed by Barunson Interactive, Dragonica Online is set in a world of dragons and magic and takes adventurers across the windswept land of El Grego to the far reaches of the world. Gorgeous visuals complement lightning fast combat while 3D battlegrounds let you get the upper hand on opponents. Dragonica Online is the only fantasy action massively multiplayer game that merges innovative 3D side scrolling gameplay, arcade combat and a comical, yet devastating, skill system into a single MMO. Combining vibrant graphics and expansive player freedom, Dragonica Online breathes new life into the traditional side-scrolling MMO.
Dragonica Online is rated E10+ for Everyone over the age of 10. Register to play at http://dragonica/thqice.com.
Intel Extreme Masters stops at 2010 Taipei Game Show for Asian Championship
Intel Extreme Masters Asian Championship at Asia’s leading game trade show – $49,000 at stake for Asian Championship – $530,000 global prize purse.
The Intel Extreme Masters is coming to Asia in its fourth season, bringing the best gamers from Asia, Australia and New Zealand to the 2010 Taipei Game Show. From February 5th – 9th, 2010, the Taipei Game Show will open its doors at the Taipei World Trade Center, attracting gamers and business professionals alike. A total prize purse of $49,000 for Counter-Strike 1.6, World of Warcraft and Quake Live will be awarded to the best players at the Asian Championship alongside invitations to the World Championship for the winners and runners-up of each title. In World of Warcraft, the bronze medalist will also be invited.
Taipei Game Show (TGS) attracted over 300,000 visitors in 2009, making it one of Asia’s leading trade fairs for games. TGS offers five days of fun and entertainment to gamers of all kinds, from online games to PC or console games. With its strong local game industry and its close ties to the thriving Chinese market, Taipei Game Show is the ideal host for the Intel Extreme Masters Asian Championship.
The Intel Extreme Masters Asian Championship will feature eight contenders for Counter-Strike 1.6, World of Warcraft and Quake Live, respectively who will be selected after an application period. The highlight of the event will be the World of Warcraft competition – another chapter in the the fierce rivalry between teams from Taiwan, South Korea and China.
The tournament will be played on the world’s most reliable gaming laptop, the M17x provided by Alienware, the official laptop of the Intel Extreme Masters.
The Intel Extreme Masters World Championship will be held at CeBIT 2010, the world’s biggest technological trade show, taking place annually in March in Hanover, Germany. Players and teams from the Americas, Europe and Asia will represent their respective regions and fight for a piece of the global prize purse of $530,000 and the title of a World Champion.
More information on Intel Extreme Masters Asian Championship: www.esl-world.net/masters/season4/taipei/
More information on Taipei Game Show: http://tgs.tca.org.tw/index.php?lang=e
Futuremark Games Studio announces Shattered Horizon Competition
Contest offers players 16 ways to win PC hardware prizes from sponsors MSI, FSP Group, Enermax and Patriot Memory
Futuremark® Games Studio announced a new community competition for Shattered Horizon™, their PC exclusive multiplayer first-person shooter. The contest starts Monday 14 December and with 16 different challenges over 4 weeks there are plenty of ways for players to win one of the many PC hardware prizes on offer from competition sponsors MSI, FSP Group, Enermax and Patriot Memory.
http://www.shatteredhorizon.com/competition/
“With 16 different ways to win this competition gives all Shattered Horizon players a chance to win one of the great prizes on offer, not just those who top the leaderboards,” said Jukka Mäkinen, Head of Futuremark Games Studio.
The prize pool includes:
- MSI Big Bang Trinergy motherboards
- FSP Group Epsilon 88PLUS 700W power supplies
- Enermax Apollish Vegas 12cm cooling fans
- Patriot Memory DDR3 Viper II ‘Sector 5′ Series memory modules
- Shattered Horizon t-shirts, sticker packs and Arconaut memberships
For further details of the challenges, prizes and how to take part visit the competition page on the official Shattered Horizon website:
http://www.shatteredhorizon.com/competition/
World Cyber Games 2010: Los Angeles to host next year’s Grand Final
Celebrating its 10th Anniversary, the World’s Premiere Global eSports Tournament and Festival Comes Stateside for the Third Time
World Cyber Games (WCG), the organizer of the premier international video game competition and festival, announced Los Angeles, CA as the WCG 2010 Grand Final host city. As the official host city for the WCG 2010 Grand Final, elite gamers from around the world will flock to the Los Angeles Convention Center next year to compete for the title of world’s best gamer. U.S. soil has proven good luck for the red, white, and blue as TEAM USA placed third overall in the WCG 2004 Grand Final in San Francisco tournament and took top honors in 2007 in Seattle.
In bringing the Grand Final to the United States for the third time, the WCG will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in the world’s largest video game market. L.A. is one of the major hubs for the video game industry as it is home to some of the largest developers and studios as well as some of the most influential gaming media in the world. Additionally, the hit reality TV program WCG Ultimate Gamer (NBCU Network) was shot on location in Los Angeles. Ultimate Gamer features a dozen top video game players living together and competing for $100,000 in cash, the “Ultimate Samsung Electronics Package” and the title of “Best All-Around Gamer.”
“This event will bring an economic impact of millions of dollars to the city of Los Angeles, said,” Michael Krouse, senior vice president of sales and client services for LA INC., the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau. “L.A. is the perfect destination for this event and we look forward to welcoming the international delegates.”
“After taking into careful consideration the many factors involved with selecting the host city, the World Cyber Games Committee came to a clear decision with Los Angeles,” said Hyoung-Seok Kim, CEO of World Cyber Games, Inc., organizer of the World Cyber Games. “San Francisco and Seattle were extremely successful events and we look forward to returning to the United States for our 10-year anniversary.”
“Samsung Electronics has been the World Wide partner of World Cyber Games since its inception 10 years ago and we are thrilled to continue playing an integral role in supporting its growth and popularity,” said David Steel, Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing, Samsung Electronics America Inc. “Hosting the games in Los Angeles should be an exciting opportunity for the gaming community and our North American team as we continue to provide the latest technology for the competitions.”
For more information on the World Cyber Games and the upcoming WCG 2009 Grand Final in Chengdu, China, please visit www.WCG.com.
THE WORLD CYBER GAMES
World Cyber Games (www.wcg.com) is the premiere global eSports tournament and festival, with about 800 players from 78 countries participating at the WCG 2008 Grand Final. Founded in 2000 and credited with launching the professional careers of many of the planet’s top competitive video game players, World Cyber Games uses a yearlong tournament format, which begins with online, regional and national competitions in each country. National finalists then convene to compete in the ultimate international tournament in e-Sports, the World Cyber Games Grand Final, where each country’s best players battle for the largest and most prestigious prizes in competitive gaming. The WCG 2008 Grand Final was held in Cologne, Germany. This year’s WCG Grand Final will be held in Chengdu, China from November 11th to 15th.
September Madness
128 teams to compete in Counter-Strike: Source and Call of Duty 4
Heaven Media are pleased to announce a new cooperation between competitive gaming website Esports Heaven and OCZ Technology, the Californian company famous for their high quality range of hardware.
Gamers from around Europe will have until the end of August to register to take part in one of these two high-profile events, which will see over 250 keenly fought battles between some of the best teams around.
The first event in Esports Heaven’s September Madness will be the OCZ Technology Call of Duty 4 competition, which will kick off on Tuesday 1st September, with the final matches coming to a close five days later on the 6th.
The next week will see the OCZ Technology Counter-Strike: Source competition, also lasting from Tuesday to Sunday, with another 64 teams competing for pride and
glory.
Each tournament offers the winning team a prize well befitting their achievement: five Fatal1ty Edition 4GB Memory Kits from OCZ Technology. These high-performance memory kits were co-developed with the expertise of the world’s 12-time champion to meet the needs of fellow gamers, and are designed to help deliver exceptional gaming visuals and overclocking potential to ensure your high-powered gaming PC maintains unsurpassed stability.
“September is going to be a really exciting month at Esports Heaven, with so much going on all the time,” said Adam Godfrey, Business Development for Heaven Media. “OCZ are enormously respected throughout the gaming community for the quality of their products, and it’s really great to have them on-board for these events.”
“We have always been keen to show our support for esports, and this is another way of giving back to the community, helping drive cups and tournaments” said OCZ Technology’s Director of PR & Marketing EMEA, Tobias Brinkmann. “We have been really impressed by Esports Heaven since its launch, and couldn’t wait to get involved!”
These OCZ Technology tournaments will be covered by Cadred.org and Tek-9.org, two of Europe’s most influential esports coverage sites.
World Cyber Games 2009 – US finals to be staged at the end of September
The WCG National Finals in NYC are the Next Stop to Reaching Chengdu, China this November
With just under 100 days remaining until the World Cyber Games (WCG) Grand Final kicks-off in Chengdu, China, the WCG has announced key dates leading up to the showcase event for the world’s largest and most inclusive international computer and videogame festival. This year, over 700 of the world’s top eSports players from more than 70 countries are expected to represent their countries and battle it out for honor and glory at the Grand Final, known as the Olympics of gaming.
The road to the exciting and intensely competitive five-day journey that will determine the best eSports players in the world kicks into high gear as all participating Grand Final countries conduct their National Final. Included amongst them will be TEAM USA, who won the overall tournament in 2007 and finished third last year. The U.S. will determine its team for the 12 official WCG titles at the National Finals held in conjunction with the New York Anime Festival on September 25-27. Anyone who wants to participate in the USA WCG National Final this year still has time to qualify by visiting www.WCG.com/USA to register for the WCG Online Tournaments to qualify for your shot at TEAM USA.
Fans can follow all of the action for the U.S. National Final, and all other National Finals, by logging onto www.WCG.com. Additionally, if they log on in September, they can watch live as the WCG unveils the group drawings. During the live event, fans can find out the match-ups for the Grand Final.
In October, online press registration will be open during October for all media interested in attending the event. Media members can save time by obtaining their press pass on-site directly during the event, guaranteeing admission to all WCG 2009 Grand Final events.
Here comes the HERO!
Come and meet the heroes!
See you in Chengdu!
Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD – Serious Tweet Contest launched
User Generated Content Amounts to Snappy Zingers and Pithy One-Liners
Hordes of Serious Sam fans and would-be video game writers around the world can now have a hand in Serious Sam HD on Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PC. Brought to the masses by Croteam, Devolver Digital, cdv Software Entertainment AG, and Majesco Entertainment, an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, the Serious Tweet Contest gives gamers a chance to write their very own clever one-liner or hilarious wisecrack that Sam ‘Serious’ Stone will drop right in the middle of all the frantic, non-stop shooting action in Serious Sam HD. The lucky winner will have his or her line recorded by John J. Dick, the voice of Serious Sam, and integrated into the upcoming summer release for the entire world to hear.
“We have always admired the love and support fans have shown Croteam and the Serious Sam franchise,” said a shy, unassuming spokesperson for Devolver Digital. “This is a fantastic way to get gamers involved in Serious Sam HD and give our fans a chance to contribute to the game itself.”
So how does a budding video game writer enter a finely crafted line for a chance to hear it in Serious Sam HD? Gamers can log on to Twitter and send a brilliant tweet quip to @devolverdigital between July 15 and July 30. Croteam will choose the winning line and Devolver Digital will announce it to all followers of www.twitter.com/devolverdigital and www.twitter.com/majescoeurope in early August.
“I never get any thanks for the wonderfully poetic and emotionally layered lines I write for Sam ‘Serious’ Stone,” said an overworked and underpaid writer at Croteam “So guess what? Let someone else take a crack at it and see how hard it is. These witty remarks don’t write themselves you know.”
In addition to having the winning line appear in Serious Sam HD, the winner’s name will be immortalised in the credits of the game and forever become a part of Serious Sam lore.
Developed by Croteam, the creators of the Serious Sam franchise, and produced in partnership with Devolver Digital, Serious Sam: The First Encounter is re-tooled and re-vamped in glorious High Definition with the all-new Serious Engine 3. It is scheduled for release late summer on Xbox LIVE Arcade from Majesco Entertainment and PC from cdv Software Entertainment AG.
Play Atlantica Online this Summer – Drive Away in a New Car
Win Gaming Consoles, Computers, LCD Monitors, Graphics Cards and a New Car Just by Playing
NDOORS Interactive announced details of a Mega-Event for their hit MMORPG Atlantica Online. Starting today, the contest, ‘Unlock Your Way to Atlantica’, will reward one lucky player with a brand-new 2010 Scion tC and other lucky players with various real world prizes, totaling over $30,000 in giveaways! To enter, players must create a free Atlantica account, or use an existing character, and spend time playing the 100% free-to-play game. Users will play the game to earn keys that can then be redeemed for valuable in-game items. Players who are eligible will be entered in a raffle drawing for real-world prizes including game consoles, LCD monitors, computers, high-end graphics cards and a brand-new Scion tC sports coupe. Certain restrictions apply.
Once ‘Unlock Your Way to Atlantica’ kicks off, players will immediately be able to start earning keys. Players will earn one key for spending one hour of time playing Atlantica Online. Players can earn a maximum of one key per day. Once a key has been earned, it can be redeemed via the Atlantica website to unlock a treasure chest containing a random in-game prize item. Some of the in-game prize items will only be offered during this exclusive promotion.
• The Mega-Event has seven phases known as ‘milestones.’ Each milestone represents a chance to win real prizes.
• When all of the game’s players redeem a pre-determined number of keys, the milestone will be hit and a raffle drawing for real world prizes will take place.
• Players must redeem one key during each phase
• The server whose players redeem the most keys will receive a 200% experience boost
• Certain restrictions apply. Please visit the official website for details.
The event ends when the players hit the final milestone and redeem all 2,000,000 keys. There are a finite number of keys for each phase so it’s important for users to play early and play often to increase their chances of winning in-game prizes and to be eligible for the raffles. Check the Atlantica website for information on when milestones have been hit and when raffle drawings will take place.
The full prize list for the Mega-Event includes:
• 1 – Grand Prize: 2010 Scion tC sports coupe
• 5 – Alienware 750i*
• 5 – BFG Tech GeForce GTX 295
• 5 – Playstation 3 80GB
• 5 – XBOX 360 Pro
• 5 – Acer H233H bmid 23″ LCD Monitor
• 5 – Nintendo DSi Systems
‘Unlock Your Way to Atlantica’ begins June 23rd. For more information, or to sign up and play, visit: www.playatlantica.com/ao
X3: Terran Conflict Update 2.1 and UPLINK Competitions
Egosoft announces the X3: Terran Conflict 2.1 Update:
A Treasure Hunt Mission and Much More!
X3: Terran Conflict 2.1 is now available! In this update we see the addition of a community-developed mission, written by Ketraar. This mission is called Treasure Hunt and will have you chasing your tail around the X-Universe looking for the next clue to lead you to what is arguably the ultimate prize. Speaking to Ketraar regarding the development of the mission, he said, “The Mission Director is a great tool and as an X-veteran, I wanted to bring a little nostalgia to TC through a mission. With Xenon_Slayer on hand to provide some guidance on the tricker parts of the mission’s development, the process of making it was both educational and fun and I hope that gamers will find it as fun to play.”
Also featured in this update is a much-awaited performance upgrade, which streamlines graphics rendering to produce better frame-rates and a generally smoother gameplay. This patch will also bring further improvements to Tractor Beam towing, the Universe Trader, a number of scripts and the ‘mine minerals’ command. For those of you who like to keep things ticking along while you do other things, this update also brings a new ‘run in background’ option, so you can chat to friends or surf the Egosoft forums while your factories churn out wares! If you’re using this option, you may want to park your ship somewhere safe before you alt-tab out of the game – you could end up in an asteroid or 400km from the sector’s centre! The update also adds a number of new Mission Director variables and attributes, in addition to a couple of script commands. There will also be more info available about marines in menus, as well as more ship information available in shipyard and HQ menus.
As well as adding in new content and features, we’ve also fixed some of those annoying little bugs. Some graphical and turret configuration issues have been fixed. The patrol and defend sector commands have also been fixed. Additionally the rear turret compatibility of the Springblossom has been reverted to its pre-2.0 configuration.
X3TC UPLINK Competitions
Stats Mean Prizes!
Now that you have had a chance to get used to the fact that you can save your game stats and upload them to the Egosoft servers and then see the results of your exploits both in league tables and in your personal profile, we think it’s time to ratchet up the competition slightly – with a competition!
On a weekly basis we will invite you to upload your stats to a special UPLINK area, so that our panel of judges can determine if you have met the victory conditions for that week’s competition. The criteria for each week’s round could be anything from “the most stations destroyed” and “the most jumpdrive energy used” to “the most sectors found” during the competition period. We will tell you, of course, what the gameplay and victory conditions will be and also what prize you’ll be playing for.
You will be given a gamestart to use (so you can assume you’ll have to start a new clean game) and a goal to reach by the stated deadline. Important note: members of EGOSOFT staff and players of games with the **MODIFIED** tag in the player states will not be permitted to enter this competition.
More information available on: http://www.egosoft.com