There’s always plenty to talk about when screenshots of an upcoming game are released, we get right into the minutia of the new Call of Duty screens and also gaze forward into the future to look at what is on the gaming horizon, i.e Crackdown 2!
This week a GaR free podcast, and we experience both perfection and discovery, next week? Probably some little creatures.
Sometimes publishers put together some awesome themed press kits to adorn titles when sent out to media, God of War 3 got such treatment. Instead of hogging all the fun I think it should find a better home. The prize includes the game, a boxed set including a stamped coin and some papery type artwork things. Along with the kit comes a poster signed by the developers that Wugga and GaR interviewed last week, plus it’s addressed to you, ButtonMasher.
To enter just send an email to me with a story about Kratos, something about what he gets up to when he’s not killing gods and harpies. My address is brian at buttonmasher.co.nz
The clever folks at Sony have a new contest that has you constructing your very own origami bird. A secret code will be revealed to you if you follow the instructions correctly. The second part of the competition gets even more interesting. On the 26th of February you will be sent clues to locations in the four main city centres to find the whereabouts of some sweet Sony gear.
The main prize is getting to play Heavy Rain in a cinema in your town with 29 of your mates. A little weird but hey, it might give some of your non-gamer friends a chance to see the game in action. Other prizes include PS3’s, copies of Heavy Rain, Sony ericsson phones, Sony CyberShot S-Series cameras, MP3 Walkman B Series, Movie passes, blu-ray discs and music vouchers for bandit.fm.
Check out the PlayStation NZ page on Facebook to enter.
Now Dark Void from my experience is not a game worth buying, but if it’s free then why not give it a go?! I am giving away Dark Void for the Xbox 360. Note that it is a review copy and has been previously used (but treated and handled with the utmost care of course).
Tell me in the comments what you would do if you had a jetpack. You have until next Sunday at 9am when I pick the winner. All decisions are final, entry only open to kiwis, yada yada.
Sometimes when your fellow castinites don’t want to come record their monotonous voices onto a solid state drive you need to revert back to the old school way of doing things. This weeks podcast is powered by wooden wheels and a steam engine, that’s right, Wugga and I ate some Mango Chicken Curry and a Limoncello Creme Brulee and we done recorded ourselves a duet. Such a sweet sweet harmony you haven’t heard in many a pod.
There is also a competition with in. The spoils are copies of games, the challenge will evoke the child within, so get out your crayons and Etch A Sketch, no skill required, artists need not apply.
How do you think you’d drive against a real V8 Supercar Driver?
Now is the time.
On Thursday 10th December*, at 8.30pm – 5 lucky kiwis will get the chance to pit their virtual driving skills against Stone Brothers Driver, Shane Van Gisbergen in a special Forza 3 race night.
Sony has decided to put some serious testing behind the M.A.G Beta and have given a few Kiwi sites codes to distribute. If you would like one please continue reading to see if you meet the criteria.
If you meet these criteria then join on in and get a code. To get a code just do two things, sign up on the forum and then send an email (from the address you have registered on the forum) to magbeta@buttonmasher.co.nz, in the subject line include your forum username and in the body of the email your name and email address.
We will get the codes out as quickly as possible and hope to see you all online ready to kick some ass.
If you like the combination of furry things with shiny metallic round headed things then you are probably already a fan of the Ratchet and Clank series. Sony is celebrating the release of the latest instalment with a wicked competition running on the TVNZ website which finishes on the 28th, if you win, Weta Workshop will create your weapon and it will be all yours.
We don’t have the ability to make awesome looking weapons out of anything other than crappy deconstructed paper mache piñatas and plasticine, so we weren’t suprised when Sony didn’t buy our offer of Wugga hand crafting a unique plasticine replica of Captain Qwarks codpiece. Instead they promised to give us three copies to share with the ButtonMashing community. To win you just need to post a description of your ultimate Ratchet and Clank weapon, perhaps you could also enter the same thing in the TVNZ comp. Go forth and create.
Madman have brought Stoked into New Zealand and have been kind enough to give us a few copies for the Xbox360 to give away to celebrate. Snowboarding games tend to be less frequent than the skating variety so there will be a bunch of people keen to check this out. There are three copies to be won, and to win all you need to do is let us know how Stoked you would be to win, do so by posting a comment below and you are entered.
