Magic world of wizardry competition for Harry Potter fans - iOS

How do wizards make horcruxes? Harry has his first kiss with whom? Which professor is a werewolf? Answer questions like these correctly and you could win a family day out to the recently opened Warner Bros. Studio Tour - The Making of Harry Potter.

Battle lines drawn in the fight for Strategy Video Game Of The Year at the Golden Joystick Awards!

A wide range of best selling games feature in the nominations list for the Strategy Game of the Year, in the world’s biggest video games awards event, the Golden Joystick Awards.

A universe of different worlds collide in this diverse line-up of contenders. From the bizarre space age strategy of Command & Conquer, to the Napoleonic intrigue of Napoleon: Total War to plant life and zombies in Plant vs. Zombies.

Mystery Monday Competition for 'The Ball' video game!

Tripwire Interactive and Teotl Studios announce the “Mystery Monday” contest for fans to win signed copies of The Ball, Tripwire games (including Heroes of Stalingrad) – and an Apple iPad! Each Monday, from now until launch, a new part of the story behind The Ball will be revealed on the official game group on Steam (http://steamcommunity.com/games/theball), including a clue towards the Mystery Monday puzzle.

Win prizes by showing love for 'Fairy Story Online' video game!

Ngames, award-winning publisher of online games, are offering fantastic prizes in exchange for feedback from players of gorgeous free-to-play MMORPG, Fairy Story Online.

Win a free copy of 'Block Cascade Fusion' video game for PSP

Gamelion Studios today announced the start of the Block Cascade Fusion tournament sweepstake. Celebrating the recent release of the coolest electro-music puzzle Block Cascade Fusion for PSP on the european PlayStation Store.

50 lucky European winners will be selected at random to receive a free copy of the game.

50 Product Keys to be won for 'Fallen Earth' video game

Alltern8 (www.alltern8.com), the world’s first online publication, community and resource site built by (and for) the consumer, announced that they have an exciting competition closing, June 30th, gamers have the opportunity to win one of fifty 30-day Product Keys for Fallen Earth, one of the most eagerly played MMORPG titles out there.

Become a gaming hero this summer at the Game Hero 2010 tournament and bag yourself a cool £1000

Game Hero 2010 will be the exciting climax to Gateshead Digital Summer, the seven weeks of wow organised by Gateshead Council and Codeworks.

The first North East games tournament of its kind, Game Hero 2010 will be offering 64 of the nation's most talented gamers the chance to compete against each other on EA's Official FIFA World Cup 2010 game for a bounty of prizes, with the tournament winner taking home the Grand Prize of a cool £1000!

Game on as Dare draws global media partners to Dundee

The world’s leading computer games competition kicks off today as students from across the globe arrive in Dundee to take part in a 10 week challenge in an attempt to produce the next big game. Dare to be Digital, now in its eleventh year, is organised and run by the University of Abertay Dundee and judged by some of the leading names in computer games development.

Joymax Announces the Victors of the North American GNGWC 2009 Qualifying Round for Silkroad Online

Joymax announce the winners of the North American qualifying rounds for the 2009 Game & Game World Championship (GNGWC). Amidst fierce competition from a 16-player field, Darrel Espinoza emerged victorious in Los Angeles for the second year in a row and again earned the right to represent North America in the global finals.

Win a free copy of Creeper World: the new Independent video game sensation!

Win a free copy of this years independent game sensation: Creeper World! 'PC Games and Reviews' website is proud to announce its first free to enter contest where readers have a chance to win a free copy of Knuckle Cracker's sensational strategy game: Creeper World.

Creeper World itself is a blend of tower defense and area control game-play that creates a solid strategic gaming experience. It features over 50 unique levels spread between 3 game modes.

The game was recently reviewed on 'PC Games and Reviews' website and received a score of 80 percent, one of the highest scores on the site. They were so impressed a dedicated strategy guide was also put together giving helpful hints and tips on how to get the best out of the game.

At the same time 'PC Games and Reviews' website were preparing to launch a competition for it's readers and were looking for a great game to give away. Creeper World was the obvious choice and so in partnership with knuckle Cracker the competition has commenced!

There are 5 copies of Creeper World to be won. Since the game has an online leader board entrants are encouraged to tell their friends so they can fight for the top of the leader board when they win!

"We're extremely excited to be running our first competition since the launch of the site, " said Andy Yates, owner of PC Games And Reviews website. "And we're so proud to be able to offer copies of Creeper World as a prize. It really is independent gaming’s best kept secret of the year!"

To enter the contest entrants should visit http://www.pc-games-and-reviews.com/creeper-world-contest.html

For information on Creeper World and for the free demo please visit http://knucklecracker.com/

Battle of the Brits! The best computer gamers in Britain compete for £30,000!

The second season of the Electronic Sports League in UK, the ESL Pro Series, reaches its conclusion with Finals in London. The UK's best gamers in the disciplines Counter-Strike: Source, Call of Duty 4, Quake 3 and Trackmania Nations Forever will compete on Saturday the 4th of July 2009 for the championship title and a total prize money of £30,000. The event takes place at the Congress Centre in the heart of London's West End.

Twelve Counter-Strike: Source teams, Twelve Call of Duty 4 teams and twelve players each in the disciplines Trackmania Nations Forever and Quake 3 have been competing for the past four months to decide who is the best team in electronic sports (eSports) in the UK. The finals will be the proving ground to determine the next British eSports champions.

"We are proud to be able to announce the second ESL Pro Series Finals in UK", says Ibrahim Mazari (34), spokesperson of the league operator Turtle Entertainment. "The success of the second season lets us look forward to establish more professional eSports in the UK."

The show will feature live commentary and interviews and the breaks in between the matches will be sweetened with onsite entertainment, numerous raffles and give-aways by the ESL and its partners such as Intel®. The finals will be broadcasted live by the IPTV channel ESL TV available at: http://tv.esl.eu

More information regarding the ESL Pro Series UK Season 2 Finals is available at: http://www.esl.eu/uk/pro-series/news/71696/UK-Pro-Series-finals-announced/

General information about the ESL and eSports: www.esl.eu/uk & www.turtle-entertainment.com

Two Tribes B.V. and Chillingo Announce Toki Tori Promotion Contest

In preparation of the May 22nd Tori Toki iPhone launch, in conjunction with the celebration of the one year anniversary of the WiiWare game, Two Tribes and Chillingo are inviting gamers to show off their creative skills in the newly launched Toki Tori Promotion Contest. The contest challenges entrants to think of cool ways to promote the game.

Win Supreme Commander video game on Xbox 360 signed by RTS legend Chris Taylor

We have a competition to find the supreme fan of Gas Powered Games’ Supreme Commander on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, which launches across Europe on September 12th. You can see war waged on a massive scale by watching a brand new gameplay video at www.supremecommander360.co.uk.

To enter the contest fans must design their own fan site and the ultimate winner will see their effort crowned as the official fan site and bag a copy of the game signed by Chris Taylor – the game’s creator - along with an Xbox 360 Elite. Five runners-up will also receive a copy of the game.

The micro site contains everything a fan will need to build their own Supreme Commander website, including artwork, fonts, videos, supporting text and in-game screenshots. It’s the ultimate package for the ultimate real-time strategy game on Xbox 360.

Supreme Commander allows gamers to take control of one of three factions - the Cybran Nation, Aeon Illuminate or United Earth Federation - and help their chosen faction win the Infinite War once and for all. You control each faction’s Armoured Command Unit, a giant mech that excels in construction and combat but whose protection is mission-critical.

Supreme Commander is released on Xbox 360 in Europe on September 12th

YoYo Games Developer Competition Closes

YoYoGames.com has announced the results of its second Independent Developers’ Casual Gaming Competition. Developers were asked to produce games with an Ancient Civilisation theme, the only other restrictions being that the developers were given less than two months to come up with the goods, and all games had to be written using the popular Game Maker development toolkit (available to download, for free, from YoYoGames.com).

The winning game - the last game standing after fending off the 250 other entrants - was the snappily titled Ancient Ants Adventure. Produced by Russian development troupe RedSystem, AAA is an isometric 3rd person shooter that sees you controlling a shamanic ant and his obliging followers on a crusade against the forces of phylum Arthropoda. Combining a highly polished finish with witty gameplay and the need for tactical foresight, YoYo Game’s latest winner pushes the boundaries of casual gaming one step further. (As well as securing the developers a much appreciated $1000).

Running close behind to collect the $500 second prize was the world’s greatest (and probably first) caveman simulator. Caveman Craig is man-management in a world better suited to dinosaurs. Build up your camp to withstand the ravages of Velociraptors and prey you don’t see T-Rex.

Collecting the final cash prize Tut’s Test represents classic casual gaming at its best: move the blocks, become infuriated by the impossibility of the level design, suddenly succeed, then repeat, frantically trying to beat your own score.

Games this individual couldn’t have come from any of the major publishing houses, they represent the true value of independent development and further proof of concept for YoYoGames.com – now the world’s largest user-generated games portal with over 19,000 games, and fastest growing, averaging a thousand new games every 3 weeks.

About YoYoGames.com

YoYo Games Ltd is a UK Based Game Start up founded by Game industry veterans, Sandy Duncan and Michel Cassius. YoYo Games launched its beta site in May 2007 and has grown to be the world’s largest user generated game site hosting over 19,000 games. Employing a web 2.0 community model YoYo Games encourages users to “Play, Make, and Share games” for free.

You can visit YYG at www.YoYoGames.com

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3D Buzz announces Old School Level Design Contest for Unreal Tournament 3

3D Buzz is pleased to announce the official launch of the Old School Level Design Contest for Unreal Tournament 3!

The Unreal mod community is in need of some new recruits, and we want you to be one of them. This contest is unique in that ONLY those assets included with the retail version of Unreal Tournament 3, published by Midway, are permitted; absolutely NO custom content can be used in your level. This means that even if you’re completely new to the modding scene, you still have a chance to win some incredible prizes, including a chance to have your level reviewed by none other than Epic’s Design Director, Cliff Bleszinski!

Contest Prizes:

Grand Prize Winner:

• $1000 cash prize
• PlayStation 3 game console (or $500 cash)
• Autographed copy of Unreal Tournament 3 signed by the developers
• Video review of your level by the staff of 3D Buzz
• Video review of your level by Epic Design Director Cliff Bleszinski

First and Second Runners-Up:

• PlayStation 3 game console (or $500 cash)
• Autographed copy of Unreal Tournament 3 signed by the developers
• Video review of your level by the staff of 3D Buzz

This first contest involves the creation of a Deathmatch type map. Entry requires that all contestants create a frequently updated Work-In-Progress forum thread over at 3D Buzz’s website.

For more information, or to get started right away, visit the official 3D Buzz Old School Level Design Contest homepage, and be sure to check out 3DBuzz.com, where you can watch hours of free video content over Unreal Tournament 3 to get you started!

Win £3000 Giveaway (game currency) in Two Clan-based Competitions

Waygate Publishing Limited today announced the launch of two major competitions for its MMORPG title, Legend: Legacy of the Dragons, with prizes adding up to over £3000 worth of in-game currency. ‘New Clan on the Block’ is for players from Waygate Publishing’s servers only, whilst ‘The Next Generation’ is designed to develop partnership and teamwork between players from other servers and players from Waygate’s own servers.

Waygate Publishing is currently working on the next game content update, which will include three new reputations, a host of new quests, characters and items related to the new reputations and a new ‘instance’ (where players can find rare game items) for higher level players. It has also been conducting a complete review of translations from the early stages of localisation to increase the overall coherence and style of the game.

New Clan on the Block
The first competition is for clans whose members are native to Waygate Publishing’s servers and have not come to the game having originally played the Russian version. If any such clan can master the world of Faeo, in which Legend: Legacy of the Dragons is set, and get three members into the top 10 leader board, featured on the game’s home page, it will be generously rewarded with 1500 game diamonds, each worth $1.25. The diamonds can be converted into in-game currency. On top of that, the novices who make the top 10 will receive mystery prizes!

The Next Generation
To encourage the training of a new generation of Legend players, the second competition is designed to harness the knowledge and experience of those who have migrated to Waygate Publishing’s servers from the Russian version’s servers. These veteran players have the chance to win themselves 500 diamonds if they set up a new clan of novice players and lead two of them into the top of their race, be it the intelligent Humans or the fiery Magmars. The novices-turned-mighty warriors will also receive 250 diamonds each, whilst the remaining members of the clan, who just miss the cut, will be rewarded with 100 diamonds for their efforts.

Rockstar 08 - Music Legends hunt for a superstar contest

Supported by Glastonbury’s founder, Michael Eavis, Peter Gabriel’s unique Real World studios, and the music industry’s hottest new band Scouting for Girls, RockStar 08 aims to find the next biggest UK rock band.

This year, for the first year, RockStar 08 will offer an opportunity for the best new talent in the UK to pit themselves against each other and impress some of the most influential people in the music industry in the hopes of winning an enviable prize.

The competition will take place in the legendary village of Pilton, the home of Glastonbury and the spiritual home of many of the UK’s greatest music legends.

The competition will kick off after 24 bands have been selected by an experienced panel of judges to take part in live heats. These heats will take place over four shows in August 2008 (1st & 2nd and 22nd & 23rd August) at Pilton Working Men’s Club where the bands will try and impress the judges to get through to the live final on 5th September 2008.

The live final will take place at the famous Pilton Party in front of 1500 regular party goers. Five bands will then battle it out to be crowned "RockStar 08". The party will be topped-off with a set by one of the UK’s hottest bands at the moment, Scouting for Girls, who are no strangers to Pilton.

The winner of this coveted title will receive an amazing prize, including a two day recording session at Real World studios, an amazing set at Michael Eavis’ Autumn Equinox party on 23rd September 2008, where over 4000 dedicated music fans party the night away at his home, Worthy Farm and the winning band will get a chance to play a live set at next year’s Glastonbury Festival.

Michael Eavis said of the competition, “This competition will allow us to gather some of the UK’s new rock talent and ultimately find one of the next big things in the world of music. Glastonbury is all about amazing talent we hope RockStar 08 will find a Glastonbury headliner of the future.”

A spokesperson for Real World studios added, “We are eager to hear and see some of the undiscovered live rock talent the UK has to offer at the moment through this competition. We were thrilled to be asked to be involved and look forward to being part of discovering the next Stadium filler!”

The competition is open to all, bands, solo artists, young, and old, the only criteria is to be unsigned. The judges are looking for undiscovered live rock talent who will become the next big thing.

Entries must be in before the closing date of 27th May 2008.

To enter bands and artists must download and follow the entry form, available at www.rockstarbands.co.uk and send a clear recording, of no less than 2 tracks, of themselves/their band playing to RockStar 08, PO Box 4249, Glastonbury, Somerset, BA6 8UU.

iGames and Game Centers Launch New Tour of Competitive Gaming Events in Partnership with CEVO

Leading Game Center organization iGames, together with 17 of the nation’s leading Game Centers, today announced the creation of the Gamers Tour (www.gamerstour.com), a new series of eSports tournaments geared towards the amateur to semi-professional communities.

Featuring regional and national tournaments, along with a series of online competitions hosted by leading competitive gaming community CEVO (www.cevo.com), the Gamers Tour will showcase the best local gamers from around the US competing for cash and prizes on today’s most popular competitive titles, including Counter-Strike: 1.6 (PC) and Counter-Strike: Source (PC), along with additional games which will be announced shortly.

The Gamers Tour will be focused on complementing the events offered by other eSports event organizers. Many eSports tournament organizers hold high-profile events showcasing the world’s best professional gamers. The Gamers Tour will be focused on providing fun competitive local events for players of a broader range of skill, thereby serving the need for a LAN-based program for non-professionals on their way to competing at higher levels.

In total, more than 32 competitions are planned to take place throughout 2008, with more than $50,000.00 in cash and prizes in the balance. Regional tournaments will offer a set minimum of a $1,000 prize pool. All prizes will be awarded promptly to winning players for their efforts.

The events will take place at Game Centers with a proven history of operating the highest quality eSports events, including X3O Gaming Center in Maryland.

“We are proud to work with iGames and other leading game centers to build the Gamers Tour. Our 2008 Dust-Off Championship Series will be making gaming history for a second year in a row, being the largest tournament ever in the United States to be developed and executed by a gaming center,” said Nick Fitzsimmons, Manager of X30 Gaming Center. “We are looking forward to incorporating the 2008 Dust-Off Championship Series with the Gamers Tour, which will provide more visibility to the thousands of gamers nationwide.”

The Gamers Tour is distinguished in that the events will be accessible to more local players than any other eSports organization with LAN play. As the tour grows, participating locations will be within driving distance of every major city in the United States. The nation’s best Game Center events will be united through a coordinated schedule of tournaments and rankings will be established for players and teams based on results.

“Though many organizations provide online opportunities to play in leagues, ladders and tournaments, game centers, with their in-person atmosphere, are the perfect venue to help strengthen and grow the eSports community,” said Mark Nielsen, Executive Director, iGames. “In addition, the LAN environment offered at game centers provides aspiring professional gamers the opportunity to hone their skills on LAN which is how most big prize tournaments are run.”

Tournaments will be held throughout the year and will be announced as details become available. For more information and a complete list of Game Centers hosting the Gamers Tour, including signup information, visit http://www.gamerstour.com.