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Free Contest Free Giveaway Click Here: Rocket Riot

We're tossing out a few invisible free copies of CodeGlue's quirky XBLA shooter. Would you like to know more?

You know what time it is, folks. Well, maybe you don't, but I'm here to tell you: it's giveaway time. Last week Jeff reviewed Rocket Riot, the new Xbox Live Arcade release from Dutch developer CodeGlue that he apparently liked quite a bit. He also sat down for a quick look at the game, if you're unfamiliar with the whole concept of legless piratical pixel dudes flying around and shooting each other into smithereens. Not me, though; that pretty much describes my childhood.


 

Courtesy of THQ, we've got five (count 'em: 5) XBLA tokens to distribute among you. How do you secure one for yourself? Talk amongst yourselves in the comments! In one full revolution of the Earth--this time tomorrow, that is, 3pm Pacific--I'll jump into the comment thread and pick five random people to receive the codes.

Enough of my yapping. Go forth and comment!


WINNERS!

Sorry for the delay folks. Thanks to ubermod TheBeast, we now have an official, robot-powered way of selecting truly random users from everyone who commented. This will be a slightly more rigorous methodology than my old trick, "close my eyes and scroll up and down a bunch." Contests should be decided much more quickly using this method in the future.

And here, chosen by machine, are the winners.

diminian

Funger

DeadDorf

Ciffy

Agent_Lost


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Heck yes I did (win that is).


Persistence paid off... was good to be at work at a computer for the two days this was going on :)

Was a game I really wanted... so yay. 

How do I claim my game?

edit: also, to be fair, my post count is only 80 and I had posts before and after this thread started so at most like 70ish / 1500 of the posts are mine. (4.7%)
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Before anyone gets their panties in a bunch, I'D REALLY LIKE TO BELIEVE that if someone smart enough to make a program to pick a random name, that said program would boot duplicates.  Now it's not like I'm in Brad's back pocket, but we should give them a little credit.

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@Ciffy said:
" edit: also, to be fair, my post count is only 80 and I had posts before and after this thread started so at most like 70ish / 1500 of the posts are mine. (4.7%) "

Apolagies if my original post felt like I was attacking you, I was only attacking the concept. To be fair man 4.7% means you had a 1/20 chance of being chosen, and since there was 5 codes up for grabs thats a pretty big chance. Not that I wish you to give up your code but cant you see that its a bit unfair against everyone else if you have that big of a chance?

I hope this sort of competition stops, next time I hope its something like "Submit your best...." or "Answer this question, one entry per person" or something just to keep it fair.

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I never said it was fair.  I agree that if my posting like I did got me the code, then something's broken.  I mainly threw the numbers out there for the "300 of these comments are Ciffy's"  comment.  if that were the case, I'd have 1/5 of the posts. 


I actually posted my statement while you were posting your's, so I had no notion of it when I was typing mine.

I do hope the algorithm is pulling out dupes and truly making it one entry per person.

edited for grammar
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Oh well I already have the game.

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@RHCPfan24 said:
" Damn...no luck. Sorry Pie, we were not successful on this venture. "
We'll just have to wait till 1943
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@Pie said:
" @RHCPfan24 said:
" Damn...no luck. Sorry Pie, we were not successful on this venture. "
We'll just have to wait till 1943 "
That's a game I would LOVE to get for free. Hear that Brad?!?!
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@RHCPfan24 said:
" @Pie said:
" @RHCPfan24 said:
" Damn...no luck. Sorry Pie, we were not successful on this venture. "
We'll just have to wait till 1943 "
That's a game I would LOVE to get for free. Hear that Brad?!?! "
Damn right
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@Pie: You need to quit the Internet.
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@ZeroCast said:
" @Pie: You need to quit the Internet. "
I need to do something to the internet........
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Has any of the other winners gotten their code yet?  I left a note on Brad's wall and he said it was on it's way but I see nothing in my box or my email... has anyone else gotten their's?

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I didn't know you could post more, and I figured only one entry was allowed (assuming the program doesn't block out multiple posts by a user). Albeit, every who won does deserve some congratulations. Although the complaining about Brad being late was totally unneeded.

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" Has any of the other winners gotten their code yet?  I left a note on Brad's wall and he said it was on it's way but I see nothing in my box or my email... has anyone else gotten their's? "
Don't tell me you are still complaining?!? Relax dude, you won!
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I'm not complaining at all and I haven't been complaining to my knowledge.   I was only curious to see if something went wrong with my email or something.  Probably shouldn't have posted in the thread.  Will try to PM the other winners.  sorry.

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@Ciffy: If it make you happy, I did not received my code, also really stop complaining, we just won something for free also let the staff some time to get you the prize. They did this contest on top of the normal work. Now let quote The Beatles and "let it be"