The Stupid Gamer

We have a winner in the recent free game giveaway contest! After voting was tallied up, it came down to a 1 vote difference. Because of the nice work that each of the three finalists provided, I’m actually making sure that each of the three gets some sort of prize. First place still wins a free game of choice, but prizes for 2nd and 3rd haven’t been decided upon yet.

Our overall winner will be announced pending notification and acceptance. Check back late Monday or early Tuesday for the final results.

Sound the trumpets, because here are your finalists after the first round of voting. I’m going to put these before a vote once more, and I’ve decided to allow you guys to chime in as well. You can cast your vote by either leaving a comment, or you can email it to me at jar155 [at] gmail dot com. The entry that receives the most reader votes will receive an extra vote in the final round of voting. So, here are the entries.

Finalist #1

Entry 1

Entry 1b (variation)

Finalist #2

Entry 18

Finalist #3

Entry 29 (Note: Opens a Flash file. Once open, click on the banner and then you can move the Pac-Man around using your arrow keys)

So there you go. Vote if you have a preference, and good luck to three finalists. Winners will be announced before the end of the week.

Here at The Stupid Gamer we’ve given away several games, some gift cards, and even some really crappy gaming-related swag. Well, it’s time to dig into our pockets once more and give back to our faithful readers (yeah, even the ones that call me a ******* ***** in the post comments). So how do you go about getting this game? It’s easy. All you need to do is submit a design for the new Stupidgamer.com header. We’ll pick our favorite, use it for a while (unless it totally sucks), and we’ll ridicule the crappy ones! Below are the details:

Submission Details

• Image must be exactly 670 x 200 pixels
• Image must be submitted in either .psd, .ai, .jpg, or .bmp formats
• Try to fit in the existing color scheme, but feel free to be creative
• Feel free to use popular gaming characters
• No nudity, foul language, or otherwise disturbing content
• All images must be submitted by June 7th
• Multiple entries are ok
• All entries must be emailed to me at jar155 [at] gmail.com and put “New Header Contest Entry” as the subject

Prize Details

• Winner may choose any game, $60 or under that will be shipped directly to the winner’s address
• Prize will be shipped out the day after a winner is chosen
• Winner can take more than one game as long as the total price does not exceed $60 (for example, two DS games might qualify or a couple of used titles)
• Once prize(s) has shipped, decisions are final
• Winner must accept prize in product, no cash or gift cards offered

Sound pretty easy? It is! If you need inspiration, check out what I spent the better part of my afternoon and evening on. You’ll have some competition, because mine is looking HOT! To see it at full size, drag and drop it to your address bar.

Ok, so in the coming lines I’m going to announce the winner of our Fire Emblem giveaway. The winner has two days (counting today) to shoot me an email to claim their prize. Oh, and don’t try to be sly and claim another commenter’s prize, because that’s not cool and I can tell who is who anyway.

So, claim your prize by emailing me at jar155 [at] gmail dot com.

Contest Winner:  feelinblu

If I don’t hear from feelinblu by tomorrow evening, a new winner will be drawn.

You want a free copy of any Fire Emblem (or $50 if you hate pure goodness)? Well, today is the last chance to participate in our Fire Emblem giveaway contest. You simply need to post a comment in the contest post, found here: Fire Emblem giveaway.

Later today we’ll draw for our winner, so make sure to get a comment posted.

The rules to this little contest are easy. Simply post a comment below and say what you want us to suck less at with the site and we’ll toss all the names in a hat (a top hat, actually) and draw one name to be our lucky winner. The winner will get to choose any of the Fire Emblem titles available in North America.

Now, if for some wild and crazy reason you don’t want Fire Emblem, we’ll also be willing to give out $50 in cash or a gift card (to Amazon) in lieu of the game. I guess it’s entirely possible that you might already own every Fire Emblem, but that should be your only excuse for taking the cash.

I was going to sit down this weekend and think long and hard about two things. First, I need a title for the podcast. If we’re going to keep doing this, we should be able to call it something cool and catchy, right? Secondly, I need an image to use each time a new podcast is uploaded for the summary post. Instead of wasting my weekend, however, I figured that you could waste yours! For this I just need something that looks nice, leaves some space where I can edit in the current episode number, and also edit in the title of the podcast once it has been selected. Just make sure that the image is no wider than 400 pixels or that I can scale it down easy enough. So, whoever can come up with winning entries for each of these things (or both if you’re so creative) will get a $25 gift card to a store of your choice from the list provided below. So, to recap:

• Submit a title for the Stupid Gamer podcast. If we choose your submission, you win a $25 gift card
• Submit an image to be used for the podcast posts. If yours win, you’ll win a $25 gift card
• Send your entries to jar155 [at] gmail dot com (sorry for the formatting, but it’s an anti-spam measure)
• You can select from any of these stores or websites
• Best Buy
• Circuit City
• Gamestop/EB
• GameCrazy
• Play N Trade
• Wal-Mart
• Target
• Amazon.com
• eBay
• Barnes and Noble
• Borders
• Others (email me to find out if it’s available to me)

We’ll be accepting submissions for the next week on Friday. I promise to review any and all submissions, and winners will be notified via email and announced on the blog. Send your submissions to jar155 [at] gmail dot com.

Oh, and if you want to know why I’m asking for your help, it’s because this is what Miguel suggested.

Please help.