Welcome to June, and I hope you're all gearing up for E3 - and looking forward to what I'll be posting from E3 right here on this blog! Here are the contests for June:
LOYAL READER LOTTERY:
Visit N4G at least once during every 24 hour period during the month of June and be entered into our Loyal Reader Lottery! If you want to keep track you can follow along with your Daily Visit score*, so if you want to make sure you've logged in during a 24 hour period check this score on your profile!
Prizes: FOUR winners will be drawn and receive their choice of either the inFamous 2 Hero Edition or the Duke Nukem Forever Balls of Steel Edition.
BEST USER BLOG:
You must post a User Blog in the month of June! The top User Blog as voted by staff and the ten most active members of the month win! There's no limit to how many wonderful User Blogs you can write and enter, anything you author here on N4G during the month of June will be eligible.
Prize: Gamefly 12-month subscription (1 game out at a time)
CONTRIBUTOR CONTEST:
Submit news and get a top 2 News ranking in June and you can win up to three games!
The prizes are:
1st: 3 Games of Choice (standard edition)
2nd: 2 Games of Choice (standard edition)
FORUM LOTTERY and E3 PREDICTIONS CONTEST:
Post on the forums during the month of June! THREE winners will be chosen at random and will receive: Their choice of a $20 PSN card or 1600 Xbox Live Points Card
E3 PREDICTIONS CONTEST: THREE winners will receive a custom title and their choice of a $20 PSN card or 1600 Xbox Live Points Card! For contest details visit the Forum Thread: http://forums.n4g.com/tm.as...
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NOTE: Winners of the May Contributor Contest, Blog Contest, Loyal Reader Lottery and Forum Lottery will be announced in the coming days.
*Just a note: I'm sorry the Daily Visit score isn't more 'every day' instead of its current 'every 24h1m', but that is just the front end tracking for you guys and when we run the lotto we pull from a more accurate list. So for those of you visiting every day diligently but not triggering the Daily Visit score reward, don't stress about it!
- Contests are NOT limited to the US/NA.
- You have to be willing to provide a valid mailing address as these are physical prizes. At the end of the month winners will be contacted on N4G via PM.
More Info on the Forum Lottery (what follows ONLY applies to the Forum Lottery):
What it is
-a monthly lottery contest where the winner(s) will receive various prizes.
How it works
-Using a random generator engine we choose a forum, active thread and a winner.
The finer details:
-Single post wonders, spammers, rude or offensive remarks all result in a DQ.
-The sub-forums located in the N4G related block (Announcements & Rules, contributor, etc) will not be eligible to win, nor will comments made within the Randomicity thread.
-You can only win the Forum Lottery once every six months.
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As always, let me know if you have any questions!
Venturing into a post-apocalyptic world, Bandai Namco resurrects the forgotten treasure, Sand Land: will it capture the magic of the Manga?
I enjoyed the demo so I'll be picking this up. The gameplay made me think of Metal Max Xeno so it sold me on it.
After the release of the horrid avatar update, Pokémon GO fans are trying to get items refunded. This has led to some getting threats of being banned.
Shift Up has released Stellar Blade day one update 1.002 on PS5, and those who preloaded the game should be notified of this update.
Do you really not know this is about the n-word or are you saying that black people can't get offended because it upsets you?
I can't believe they're censoring this game on day 1. Games just aren't the same.
/s in case it's needed. I'm fine with them making these changes that they might not have known is culturally insensitive to some people in the big ole world. But that's just me.
They are censoring something that is deemed offensive by Journalists quoting the offensive term verbatim. They are typing it intentionally in articles while in the game it's a wall texture saying Hard next to a unrelated 3d model sign that says R store. Is it offensive or not? Crazy town.
At least IGN just shows the term with a screenshot of the game. Because it's their "discovery" and to not show hypocrisy in their HUGE vitue signal.
Hard R is the not offensive way to describe an offensive term. Are they going to type "Ha$$ R" or not use the term now?
Oh, hey, I agree with you that IGN and other journalists are dumb. Not disagreement there. But, I think for a game going out to millions of people across the world? It's not something they want associated with them. It's just horrific PR.
Add to the horrific PR nightmare that this is the first major Korean-developed Sony-published title, if I'm not mistaken.
There aren't that many Korean developed titles in general. And the allowance of this only would drive a bigger fissure in east vs west especially after Final Fantasy XVI released featuring no black characters at all...
Not a good look for Sony regardless of how you personally feel about it or the people that talk about it.
I'm not saying it shouldn't have been changed. It's an easy fix and looks like it was an easy fix.
But the word HARD being too close to the letter R being a horrific PR nightmare and a indication of a racist developer is beyond crazy.
I only think they would be seen as an insensitive developer if they were informed of its implications and didn't remove it. I don't think it's a bad thing to not want to have an unintentional message in your game.
I'm offended by the sight of blood a d violence and find violence to be very insensitive...
We can all play stupid and pretend to be offended by graphics and fake worlds.
I really enjoyed the demo.
I'm going to play through and max out on story mode then go to the challenge mode afterwards.
This game is very challenging but fun.
Especially for timing on the parrying and blocking.
Got the Deluxe Digital Edition (PS5) pre ordered.
:)
Oh, you're back.
Watch out for _JL_ (I think he wants you dead)
Cat is alive... yay!
Thanks for the Details "CAT", i hope your doing well now.
It says win upto 4 Games of Your Choice, But then it read that #1 ranked Contributor will get "3 Games", who's winning 4 ? lol
Writing a Blog right now, Hopefully it is good enough to win.
Kool i visited everday on the month a may.....i think...if not then june here i come! XD