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Holiday Contest of Doom

by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Dec 24, 2007 5:45am PST
Related Topics – Atari, Activision, Valve, Konami, Bethesda, Contests

style="border: medium none ;" align="left">Games are what bring us together, and the holidays are what hopefully give us a nice end and new start to the year. Here at Shacknews, we too wish to acknowledge the festive gaiety of the season with a whole slew of prizes and a contest worthy of your time. We're asking you to recreate your favorite scene from a game and to give it a holiday theme. Interpret this directive as objectively or abstractly as you like, but humor, cleverness and skill should be the key ingredients of your entry.

We're going to give you a full week for this contest, accepting entries until December 26th at 11:59 CST, giving people that day after Christmas to submit a decent entry. Why so much time, you ask? Well I think we expect some pretty great entries since the first prize for this contest will be an Xbox 360 Elite edition game system.Intimidated by the notion of making something? You shouldn't be, because just submitting something will enter you in our game sweepstakes. For this, we have a wide array of prizes such as Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat (PS3 and PC), the collectors edition of Quake Wars: Enemy Territory (PC), Tony Hawk's Proving Ground (Wii), Bee Movie: The Game (Wii), Spiderman: Friend or Foe (PC and PSP), a signed Team Fortress 2 poster, Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles (PSP), Silent Hill Origins (PSP), Coded Arms: Contagion (PSP), Metal Gear Solid Digital Graphic Novel (PSP), The Witcher (PC), TotalGaming.net memberships with tokens for Galactic Civilizations 2 (PC) and Sins of a Solar Empire (PC), Oblivion: Game of the Year Edition (360, PS3), Shadowrun (360), Mass Effect (360), the collectors edition of Prey (360) with a custom Prey 360 faceplate and mousepad, a plethora of t-shirts, an ultimate mystery Bag of (gaming) Crap and more just for submitting an entry, courtesy of Activision, Konami, Valve, Microsoft, Stardock, Atari, Bethesda Software, 3DRealms and Shacknews.When submitting, post your entry in the comments to this article and please indicate if you own a PC, Xbox 360, Wii, PS3 or PSP. If you need tools, check out Splashup or Paint.net and image hosting can be found at EasyScreens, Photobucket and ImageShack. As many submissions can be made as you like, but quality will always win out over quantity. Worldwide entries will be accepted, however only North American residents are eligible for the Xbox 360.


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  • #140
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    By: RomSteady x
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    You are in front of a white house surrounded by a white picket fence.

    There is snow on the ground, and atop the nearby mailbox.

    > OPEN MAILBOX

    There is a key inside the mailbox.

    > TAKE KEY

    The mailbox is empty.

    > USE KEY ON FRONT DOOR

    The front door is unlocked.

    > OPEN FRONT DOOR

    You can see a bare living room. Bits of wire and tinsel line the walls.

    > GO INSIDE

    From inside, the condition of the home seems much more decrepid. The icebox has been emptied, and the entire house appears to have been ransacked in a short period of time.

    There is a rope leading up into a hole in the ceiling.

    > CLIMB ROPE

    It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grinch.

    > WHAT IS A GRINCH

    The grinch is a sinister, lurking presence in the dark places of the earth. Its favorite diet is Christmas revelers, but its insatiable appetite is tempered by its fear of light. No grinch has ever been seen by the light of day, and few have survived its fearsome songs to tell the tale.

    > HUM "JINGLE BELLS"

    A voice that could easily be mistaken for Boris Karloff wafts from the darkness...

    "The Who-hash is gone,
    The roast beast is done.
    The Who down in Whoville
    Have tasted my gun.
    Their stockings are hung
    'Round their necks in the square
    And ho, ho, Saint Nick,
    He also hangs there.
    And now, my dear player,
    Your end is quite near.
    Ignoring text warnings
    Leads to endings quite dear."

    You are dead. You have 1 out of 500 points.

    (PC/360)
    Dec 26, 2007 4:33pm PST
  • #121
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    By: TShandy x
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    Hope a prose only entry is okay. PC only for me.

    The snow came down gently on Holidaytown, drifting through the winter sky like the ashes of the damned settling on the darkest reaches of Hell. White Christmases had just never seemed the same since Mrs. Claus had died in a freak toymaking accident. Afterwards, he’d started hitting the bottle like Louis did Schmeling. For a few years, things had carried on like normal- he’d still delivered the presents, pounding hangover or no. Of course, in blinding hindsight, the elves had begun encircling him even then, like thousands of adorable piranhas patiently trailing an ailing whale. When they finally sprung their trap, he blundered into it as foolishly as if he’d been wearing a cap and bells.
    ‘Twas the night before Christmas and Gingerbread the elf had left him a voicemail, urgently complaining about problems with the suspension on the sleigh. When he arrived at the Toyland garage, it was dark, which should have been a warning sign, as they should have been working frantically to get the sleigh loaded and the reindeer hitched. Drunk and stupid, he had walked right in. They were waiting for in the rafters, and fallen on him like read and green sacks of pain. As he slipped into unconsciousness, they laughed, their high pitched, emasculated voices trilling like demon chipmunks. “You’ve gone soft, Santa,” said Gingerbread as he leaned close to put out his lights “Christmas is ours now.”
    They’d left him in snow to die, ankles broken, shins bruised. But he was about to give up without a fight. No, he’d show those little bastards that it ‘twas better to give than to receive. And Santa had a whole bag full of bullets he was just itching to give out.

    Max Payne parody, in case it's not obvious
    Dec 25, 2007 8:24pm PST