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We Review Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (Xbox 360)

It seems that the world is currently going through a Prince-mania phase, with the “Prince of Persia” movie doing reasonably well for itself at the box office. So if you were hoping for a movie review, you’re going to be a tad bit on the disappointed end of things. On the other hand, what you ARE reading is a review for the new Prince of Persia video game, subtitled “The Forgotten Sands”. So if you were hoping for one of those, well done! It’s your lucky day! Either way, it’s an entertaining review. If you’re already familiar with the Prince of Persia franchise (as any decent gamer should be), feel free to gloss, bleary-eyed, over the next two or so paragraphs, because what follows is a short history lesson. You’re welcome to stay for the entertaining read, though. It continues after the jump.

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Pure Football Competition: We Have a Winner!

Uruguay played France in the second match of the 2010 soccer world cup and resulted in another draw, this time with no goals being scored at all, and an altogether forgettable match. This result does brings our Pure Football competition to an end. You may have seen our “half-time” stats and noticed that a small percentage of entrants (three to be exact) made it from the previous round having correctly predicted the outcome of the South Africa versus Mexico clash. From those three entrants, only one person guessed game #2 would end in a draw , so congratulations go to:

Jarred “Crystal Ball” Milner

====<() PAAAAARP!!! Congratulations Jarred, you’ve scored a copy of Pure Football for Playstation 3! Hard luck to the other entrants, but we do have one more copy of the game to give away so check back next week for another competition.

A big shout out to Ubisoft for organizing the competition prizes.

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Pure Football Competition: Half-Time Results!

The first game of the 2010 soccer world cup has ended and that marks the half-way point in our latest competition. You might recall that we’re giving away two copies of Ubisoft’s Pure Football and to stand a chance of winning a copy, we asked you to predict the outcome of both opening games today. With South Africa having drawn the match against Mexico, it means neither team came out victorious and that spells bad news for our competition entrants who predicted a win from either side. Here are some of our half-time stats in case you’re interested:

  • Percentage of entrants who predicted a South Africa win: 67%
  • Percentage of entrants who predicted a Mexico win: 25%
  • Percentage of entrants who predicted a draw: 8%
  • Percentage of Playstation 3 entrants: 64%
  • Percentage of Xbox 360 entrants: 36%

Congratulations to the handful of entrants who have made it into the second round of our competition. If you have predicted the correct outcome of the next game ,Uruguay versus France, you will gain entry into the final round, and with that a chance of winning Pure Football. Good luck!

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Win Copies of Pure Football!

NOTE: Entry into this competition is now closed. We’ll announce the winners soon, I promise.

The 2010 FIFA World Cup is two days away and the united blare from Vuvuzelas all around South Africa is helping to ramp up the excitement levels. Our friends at Ubisoft are excited too, not only about the month-long spectacle awaiting us, but also their first foray into the core soccer genre, Pure Football. English captain Steven Gerrard graces the cover of this five-a-side arcade simulation that emphasizes aggression and physicality that perhaps might not be allowed in normal games of footy.

We’ve got two copies of Pure Football and don’t know what to do with them. You could take one of them off our hands by simply predicting the outcome of the two World Cup games that will be happening this Friday, South Africa vs Mexico and Uruguay vs France. Make your predictions, send us your entry, and wait for us to give you some good news. Dead simple right? Find the full details after the jump.

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The Red Dead Redemption Competition Winner!

Our Red Dead Crossword competition has ended and we’re hoping to make Friday marginally better for one lucky person. We were giving away hamper of consisting of Red Dead Redemption merchandise and a set of classic western movies on DVD. To stand a chance of winning said hamper, entrants were tasked with solving our wild west themed crossword puzzle and then decoding the anagram that was formed by specially marked letters on the puzzle. The answer we were looking for was NIGHT HAWK, which in cowboy terms, is a person who watches over a herd of cattle during the night.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to fill out the crossword, we hope you had a good time. The first entry appeared in our inbox within 56 minutes and that industrious person got two extra entries into our draw. We turned to the Randomizer to pick our winner – could it be you? Find out after the jump.

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Competition Reminder: Win Red Dead Goodies & Wild West DVDs

NOTE: This competition has ended, sorry.

I can’t recall being this excited for a game since Uncharted and Grand Theft Auto IV. Rockstar’s critically acclaimed Red Dead Redemption gets released in South Africa today. It was a bumpy road on the way here as the stock got unceremoniously bumped off flights from Europe due to the ash from that inconvenient Icelandic volcano. I’ve ordered mine through local online retailer Kalahari.net and they’ve been sacrificing all manner of organic material to the gods to ensure their customers get the game on time. Whilst I wait for my copy to arrive, I just wanted to remind you about our latest competition.

We’re giving away some cool Red Dead Redemption merchandise and a set of great westerns on DVD. The contents of the hamper are:

  • A Red Dead Redemption t-shirt
  • A Red Dead Redemption sticker
  • A bar of eradication soap
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  • The Outlaw Josey Wales
  • Unforgiven
  • Young Guns

To stand a chance of winning the hamper, you need to solve our wild west inspired crossword puzzle. The competition ends next week on Thursday, May 27th. You can find the full details on the official competition post. Good luck!

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Win Xbox Goodies With eGamer!

We’re busy with a rather complicated Croatian recipe for fisherman’s pie. Whilst we’re waiting for milk infusion to happen, we thought we’d tell you this. We like eGamer. They like us. They also like you and want to give you some Xbox 360 swag. Their “Xbox Falo Bundle” includes two classic 360 games (Halo 3, Fable II) and a wireless controller.

To win the goodies all you have to do is to like them. It’s possibly the easiest competition I’ve seen this week. To find out the full details head to eGamer. Tell them prawny sent you ;-)

P.S. If you need more of a challenge, we’re running a wild west themed crossword competition. Check it out.

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Solve Our Crossword & Win Red Dead Redemption Goodies

NOTE: This competition has ended, sorry.

I’ve been quietly excited about Rockstar Games’ upcoming title for short a while now but with every trailer, gameplay video, and featurette that has come along, the excitement has grown to a deafening crescendo. And in a mere seven days (four if you live in the U.S.), gamers around the world will be able to saddle up and travel back to the American frontier. It’s the early 1900s and a time of violent change, the death of the Wild West is at hand, and former outlaw John Marston is just trying to live a straight life. Violence touches Marston again and he is forced to hunt down his old companions to bury his past, one gunslinger at a time. That’s the gist of the epic western, Red Dead Redemption, which will be coming to all good gaming consoles (sorry Wii owners) on May 21st. In case you missed it, click here to see the launch trailer that aired yesterday.

To get you in the mood for Red Dead Redemption, our friends at Megarom and Look & Listen have put together a sweet hamper for us to give away to one lucky (and industrious) reader. Instead of the usual Flash game type of competition, we’ve gone back to a format from last year that proved both interesting and educational – a crossword puzzle! And to win the hamper, all you will need to do is solve our little puzzle. The Internet is your encyclopaedia so it should be fun, like shooting fish in a barrel. Find all the competition details after the jump.

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Play This: Canabalt Typing Tutor Edition

Canabalt has a simlpe concept that is really well executed. Some would call it pure genius. We’ve covered it before and even used it as part of a competition not so long ago.

Its creator, indie game developer Atomic Adam, has just recently created a new mode for the game that not only test of your reflexes, but you typing prowess as well. It’s aimed at teaching you to type, but don’t let that guise of “education” fool you, it’s really the expert mode.

Play Canabalt Typing Tutor Edition and let us know how you fared.

[via Joystiq]

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Lucy Furr’s Friday Smackdown

I’ve been a lazy bastard lately and have missed out on so many golden and evocative blogging opportunities in the last few weeks, especially the whole ET bites the dust drama and the continuing saga of Juju. Anyway I’ve made the firm decision to blog at least once a week and to ease myself in, I’ve decided to bring you Dear Reader my Lucy Furr’s Friday Smackdown. A smackdown is defined by wiktionary as a fight; a beating, a physical or emotional confrontation. Well I’m hoping to provoke all three by exposing my most private feelings towards two similar items every Friday e.g. two flavours, two books, two TV shows, two beers, you get the picture. One of the items will be something I think rocks and the other will be one I think sucks. Feel free to smack me down if you don’t agree or alternately to agree profusely and congratulate me on my outstandingly good taste.

So let’s kick off with two fairly recent songs, one by Young Money(whoever he is), and the other’s by Cypress Hill.

This song SUCKS.

I knock her lights out and she still shine. WTF.

This song ROCKS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0A24j5-22k

Apologies for the lack of official video. If you can find one please send me the link and I’ll pop it in here.