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Time is running out on your chance to enter to win a boatload of loot in the Divinity II – Ego Draconis “Quest for Glory” sweepstakes. The deadline to enter the sweepstakes is February 1st.

More than 100 dedicated Dragon Knights have already entered to win the “Quest For Glory” by unlocking every Achievement in the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft version of Divinity II – Ego Draconis and going to www.honorofrivellon.com to enter.

Visit www.honorofrivellon.com to enter, for all sweepstakes details and a full list of first place and runner-up prizes.

Check out the official “Quest For Glory” trailer here.

The first place prize package includes:

· The Dragon Knight Epic Trophy

· A Divinity II custom Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system

· Divinity II – Ego Draconis Controller Skin Set

· Divinity II – Ego Draconis Decal Set

· Divinity II – Ego Draconis Game Card Set

· Divinity II – Ego Draconis In-Game Items Pack (weapon /armor)

· Gaming lounge which includes a large screen TV, gaming chair and controllers

The Dragon Knight Epic Trophy, given out only to the first place winner, is a high quality 3D rendition of a dragon’s head mounted on a plaque. The figurine will be produced using the same 3D models used in Divinity II – Ego Draconis and rendered and machine cut for accuracy.

The sequel to the critically acclaimed action-RPG Divine Divinity, Divinity II – Ego Draconis transports players back to the wide-open, war-torn world of Rivellon where they will battle the forces of evil not just as a human warrior, but also as a powerful Dragon Knight! Developed by Larian Studios, Divinity IIboasts a robust fantasy adventure of more than 60 hours, teeming with massive dungeons and outdoor spaces to explore. It offers deep on-the-ground and aerial combat, and a mystery to unravel that could reveal hidden truths and revive forgotten evils, altering the face of Rivellon forever! Divinity II – Ego Draconis is available for Xbox 360 and Windows PC.

For more information about Divinity II – Ego Draconis, which is rated “M” for “Mature” by the ESRB, please visit www.cdvus.com or www.divinity2.com.

Win outstanding prizes, including a Divinity II console skin featuring your own artwork!

cdv Software Entertainment USA is pleased to announce the Divinity II – Ego Draconis Game Art Contest! Fans of the heroes, creatures and landscapes that fill the world of Rivellon will now have the chance to prove their artistic skills. Basing their art on game assets provided at www.honorofrivellon.com, aspiring dragon slayers must forge works of epic beauty in competition for a host of rare treasures. Contestant submissions will be judged on their creativity, relevance to Divinity II– Ego Draconis and presentation quality.

Prize packages for the Divinity II – Ego Draconis Game Art Challenge include an Xbox 360 with an incredible console skin featuring the winner’s actual artwork, a themed controller, controller skins, in-game bonuses and more! For all the details on the Divinity II – Ego Draconis Game Art Challenge, please visit www.honorofrivellon.com.

The sequel to the critically acclaimed action-RPG Divine Divinity, Divinity II – Ego Draconis transports players back to the wide-open, war-torn world of Rivellon where they will battle the forces of evil not just as a human warrior, but also as a powerful Dragon Knight! Developed by Larian Studios, Divinity II boasts a robust fantasy adventure of more than 60 hours, teeming with massive dungeons and outdoor spaces to explore. It offers deep on-the-ground and aerial combat, and a mystery to unravel that could reveal hidden truths and revive forgotten evils, altering the face of Rivellon forever!

For more information about Divinity II – Ego Draconis, which is rated “M” for “Mature” by the ESRB, please visit www.cdvus.com or www.divinity2.com.

Master the ways of the Dragon Knight for your final chance to win!

cdv Software Entertainment USA is pleased to announce the third and final round of its Divinity II – Ego Draconis “Game Feature Challenge” contest! Setting itself apart from nearly every fantasy RPG to date, Divinity II – Ego Draconis allows aspiring Dragon Knights to play in both human and dragon forms, and you must master the ways of both in order to win awesome Divinity II – Ego Draconis prizes!

This third round of questions debuts today and will focus on the gameplay, skill, and combat differences between Divinity II’s Human Form and Dragon Form. Contestants who make it through this third and final round of questions will be given a chance to receive a variety of great Divinity II – Ego Draconis Game Feature Challenge including themed controllers, controller skins, in-game bonuses and more! For more information about the contest, and its rules, please visit – www.honorofrivellon.com

The Game Feature Challenge comes on heels of the recently launched Divinity II – Ego DraconisEpic PC Sweepstakes, which gives fans the chance to win epic loot, including a Custom Divinity II – Ego Draconis Gaming PC and a High-Resolution LCD Desktop Display. Visit www.honorofrivellon.com for a full list of prizes, more details and to enter to win!

Don’t forget about the Divinity II – Ego Draconis GAMESTOP 360 Pre-Order Bonus: Players who pre-order Divinity II – Ego Draconis for the Xbox 360 from GameStop will receive the exclusive in-game Blood Echelon Armor and Weapon Set while supplies last. The Blood Echelon is a select lodge of elite Dragon Slayers who have earned the highest of distinctions on the battlefield. The pre-order program is available now through January 5, 2010.

**Please note that this program applies only to pre-orders of Divinity II – Ego Draconis for Xbox 360 **

Please visit your local GameStop for more information and incentive details, or check online at: http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=75982.

The sequel to the critically acclaimed action-RPG Divine Divinity, Divinity II — Ego Draconis transports players back to the wide-open, war-torn world of Rivellon where they will battle the forces of evil not just as a human warrior, but also as a powerful Dragon Knight! Developed by Larian Studios, Divinity II– Ego Draconis boasts a robust fantasy adventure of more than 60 hours, teeming with massive dungeons and outdoor spaces to explore. It offers deep on-the-ground and aerial combat, and an intriguing mystery to unravel that could reveal hidden truths and revive forgotten evils, altering the face of Rivellon forever!

For more information about Divinity II – Ego Draconis, which is rated “M” for “Mature” by the ESRB, please visit www.cdvus.com or www.divinity2.com

Rockstar Games Presents The Midnight Club: Los Angeles Pizza Hut South Central Showdown

We’re excited to present the first Social Club Tournament series for Midnight Club: Los Angeles South Central. To commemorate the event Rockstar Games and Pizza Hut are teaming up to give the ultimate Midnight Club player a chance to win a year’s worth of free pizza! To enter, download the free South Central Map Expansion on Xbox LIVE or PLAYSTATION Network and compete in the Midnight Club: Los Angeles – South Central Pizza Hut Showdown. Racers will battle to post the fastest times on the leader boards for their shot at $599 worth of Pizza Hut gift cards equal to a free Pizza Mia™ every week for a year.

Registration is open from now until April 13 at 11:59 p.m. ET, with the first round getting underway on April 14 at 12:00 a.m. ET. Go to www.rockstargames.com/socialclub/events for complete official rules and eligibility details.

cdv Software Entertainment USA and GameRigs have launched a new sweepstakes, offering gamers a chance to win some very cool Sacred 2-themed prizes. To enter, simply visit the GameRigs Sacred 2 contest page and fill out the online form. On April 13, 2009, winners will be chosen at random to win some fantastic prizes.

Contest URL -
http://www.game-rigs.com/promos/sacred2×360/

Prizes -
One lucky winner will receive:

* An Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system
* Sacred 2 – Fallen Angel Xbox 360 and controller decal skin
* A copy of Sacred 2 – Fallen Angel (Xbox 360)
* A 32″ LCD HDTV Display
* A Gaming Chair with Audio Speakers
Two additional winners will receive:
* Sacred 2 – Fallen Angel Xbox 360 and controller decal skin
* A copy of Sacred 2 – Fallen Angel (Xbox 360)

For more information about Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, the action-RPG for PC and next-generation consoles, please visit http://www.cdvus.com or http://sacred2.com

Top Fan Submissions from U.S. and UK To Be Incorporated Into Future Peggle Installment; Prizes Include Trips to Seattle, Retail Spending Sprees, iPhones, Xbox 360s and More

PopCap Games, the leading developer and publisher of casual games, today announced a first-of-its kind Peggle Art Contest, with the top submissions being immortalized in a future installment of the cult classic casual video game. The contest, which opens today and runs through June 3, 2009, is one element of Peggle Fever, a months-long celebration of all things Peggle. Peggle Fever will include other contests and sweepstakes while celebrating the arrival of new adaptations of Peggle for Nintendo DS (arriving today in the U.S.), Apple’s iPhone, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and XBLA service, and more.

Available to residents of the 50 United States (and District of Columbia) and the United Kingdom, the Peggle Art Contest will award more than $8,000 in prizes, including trips for the top submitters to visit PopCap’s Seattle headquarters, spending sprees at Best Buy, limited edition Peggle merchandise, and iPhones and Xbox 360s with Peggle pre-installed. Entries can involve any aspect of the game’s artistic elements, from background scenes to drawn or written descriptions of new Peggle Masters and power-ups, to level designs (peg layouts). Full details of the contest, including entry forms and rules, can be found at www.popcap.com/promos/peggleart. Entries can be submitted electronically or by mail.

“We get a lot of fan mail from Peggle devotees, including lots of suggestions for background art, new Peggle characters and power-ups, and level designs, and thought an art contest would be a fun way to foster and tap into that creativity and enthusiasm for the game,” said Sukhbir Sidhu, co-creator of Peggle and studio director at PopCap. “We’re excited to see what the rabid Peggle community comes up with in the way of ideas!”

Digital contest submissions must be no larger than 5 megabytes in size and analog submissions must arrive on a sheet of paper or other material no larger than 8.5 inches by 11 inches and be no thicker than 4 inches. Nearly any type of ink or paint can be used, from finger-paints or colored pencils to ballpoint pens and magic markers. Judging will be conducted by members of PopCap’s art department and development studio, who will weigh creativity and feasibility of submissions along with artistic talent. No copyrighted or trademarked imagery – other than visual elements found in the Peggle games themselves – will be accepted. A sampling of submissions from each week of the contest may be posted to the contest microsite and prizes will be awarded to the top two dozen entries (twelve per age group). Both “adult” (age 18 and over) and “youth” (13 to 17) categories are available, with twelve winners being named from each age group.

Win an Amazing PC Gaming Rig! cdv USA and GameRigs Launch the New Sacred 2: Fallen Angel T-Energy Sweepstakes Today

cdv USA is pleased to announce that they have launched a new sweepstakes today… and it’s sure to make the winner the envy of all their PC gaming friends! In cooperation with top PC builder GameRigs, cdv USA will be giving away a fantastic Sacred 2-themed custom PC in their “Sacred 2 – T-Energy Sweepstakes,” which launched today.

To enter the sweepstakes, please visit – http://www.game-rigs.com/community/sweepstakes/sacred2/

Many will enter the sweepstakes, but only one person will win a fantastic, custom-built Sacred 2 PC, which includes these incredible components -

1st Prize
- Custom Gaming Desktop PC System from GameRigs, including:
- GameRigs Aluminum ATX Case with custom artwork
- AMD Phenom^TM X4 2.5GHz Quad-Core AM2+ Processor
- 2 GB Crucial Ballistix^TM memory
- NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX+ 512mb PCI-E 2.0
- NEC Accusync 24″ LCD Display
- Razer Lycosa^TM gaming keyboard
- Razer DeathAdder^TM gaming mouse
- Sacred 2: Fallen Angel Mousepad
- Sacred 2 Premium Poster
- In-game Carrier Imp pet (included in Special edition of the game)
- Sacred 2 : Fallen Angel Poster
- Sacred 2 : Fallen Angel Decals

2nd Prize
- Razer Lycosa^TM gaming keyboard
- Razer DeathAdder^TM gaming mouse
- Sacred 2: Fallen Angel Mousepad
- In-game Carrier Imp pet (included in Special Edition of the game)
- Sacred 2 : Fallen Angel Poster
- Sacred 2 : Fallen Angel Decals

3rd Prize
- Razer DeathAdder^TM gaming mouse
- Sacred 2: Fallen Angel Mousepad
- In-game Carrier Imp pet (included in Special Edition of the game
- Sacred 2 : Fallen Angel Poster
- Sacred 2 : Fallen Angel Decals

For more information about Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, the action-RPG for PC and next-generation consoles, please visit http://www.cdvus.com or http://sacred2.com.

Rare contest to reward top Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts creations with in-game immortality

Twycross, Outskirts of Nowhere – Attention builders, racers, pilots and boat captains! One month after its worldwide release, “Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts” has flown, driven and sailed off store shelves and the response from the fan community has been overwhelming. Every day, the “Banjo-Kazooie” Showroom is flooded with new screenshots and blueprints of fan’s custom creations, so today Rare announced a contest to recognize the top seven user generated contraptions created in “Banjo- Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts.”

Key members of the “Banjo” development team will be poring over the in-game photos uploaded to the web in a quest to track down the seven very best player-built contraptions. The reward? In-game immortality. The seven winners will experience bragging rights galore when their designs are integrated into the game for other “Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts” players to experience.

Additional details around the contest can be found on the official Web site at http://www.rare.co.uk/company/news_bkcomp.html

Once the team has made its selections, the contraptions’ creators will be contacted via their Gamertags and asked to send Rare their blueprints.
Contest Details:

· To upload a screenshot of your creation to the official contest Web site:
Press Start to access the Pause menu, select Photos and Replays, and then select Take Photo. Use the left and right sticks to position the camera, and then press A to take the picture. (Photo mode is available during single-player games or while watching replays.)

Select Photos and Replays from the main menu in “Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts”

Select Open Photo Album, then My Photos
Highlight a photo you wish to upload and press the Y button to upload it to banjo-kazooie.com
The deadline for entries is Jan. 4, 2009, 12 midnight PST. This gives players the whole holiday to be creative
Anyone with a copy of “Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts” and an Xbox LIVE account can enter.

Participants can enter as many contraptions and submit as many photos as they’d like; just remember that the cream always rises to the top.

Be creative! The Rare Judges are hard to impress and the creations that have already been posted to the web are outstanding, so competition is sure to be fierce Be careful! Contraptions that infringe on copyrighted material cannot be considered in this contest The exact specifics of the reward will be shared in due time, so contestants should get busy, get creative, and get building!

For additional information on “Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts,” visit http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/splash/b/bknutsandbolts/ or http://www.rareware.com/home.html.

Smile for the camera! It’s time to create the perfect Outspark holiday greeting card!

From now until December 16th, players are invited to get creative and design their very own Outspark holiday greeting card. Simply use one of the festive images of the Outspark GMs provided by Outspark and your favorite image editor and start spreading the holiday cheer.

Seven winners determined by the Outspark community will each receive a real life copy of the card they design signed by the Outspark staff!

Additional information and contest rules are available at the Outspark website.

Related Links:
Outspark Portal: http://www.outspark.com.
Snapshot with Santa Announcement: http://fiesta.outspark.com/news/?view=news&document_srl=3235
Snapshot with Santa Entires/Forums: http://www.outspark.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=219

Paris, December 8, 2008 – Before the release of Still Life 2, Microïds and GameCo launch a machinima contest. The producer of the Still Life series and the Still Life 2 developer allow Still Life fans to design a 30 seconds trailer thanks to exclusive elements from the game under development at GameCo studios.

To enter the competition, you just need to register to stilllife2-trailer@microids.com.

You will then be given access to exclusive Still Life 2 material: animations, ingame videos, musics, screenshots… You will simply have to post your work* before January 10, 2009.

The winner will be announced on January 15 by a jury composed of Microïds and GameCo representatives, and his/her trailer will be posted on the official website: www.stilllife-game.com.

The winner’s name will furthermore be added to the game credits.

*The trailer needs to be 45 seconds maximum. It will not exceed 30Mb. Recommended formats are .MOV, AVI, MPEG4 or WMV.
Do not forget that PCs and Mac usually have pre-installed softwares for video creation (Windows Movie Maker for PCs, Imovie for Mac).