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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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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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Flash Game Friday: Monkey Metric

Ooh ooh ooh Aaah aah aaH!

That being said, today’s flash game is about a family of monkeys whose very existence is threatened by a fire mountain that they decided so cleverly to live next to. One brave monkey must set forth to save the collective. And that brave monkey is unfortunately you.

Use the arrow keys to move, and the spacebar to toggle the switches in this cutesy isometric puzzle game.

Play Monkey Metric at Armor Games.

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Awesomeness Flash Games

Stumbling in The Dark: Closure

Fridays are good for many things, and one of them is goofing off when you should be working. And to prevent you from being a productive member of the workforce today, I give you Closure.

It’s an inventive platform puzzle game with an ominous soundtrack and quite unusual gameplay mechanics. Telling you anymore will ruin your experience (that and I’m frakkin’ lazy to type).

Go with the light and play Closure at Newgrounds [NOTE: You will need to download and install Flash Player 10 to play this game] – thanks Tiny Tim!

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Arty Flash Games

Auditorium – A Game of Music and Light

Auditorium is a fantastic, relaxing puzzle game composed of music and light. In each level, you need to manipulate the flow of light towards what look like equalizer boxes. You can move the directional buttons, and click and drag the edges to herd the light. When  all the boxes are full, you proceed to the next level.

Auditorium is a really intriguing and addictive multisensory experience — part puzzle game, part light sculpture, part musical instrument – Peter Cohen, Macworld

Pay the game at Play Auditorium.

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Flash Games

Black Knight Chess

Black Knight is an isometric chess-based game where you play solely as the black knight. Your mission is to kill the bastardly white king and reach the star and get to the next level. Laying between you and your objective are random chess pieces that protect his royal whiteness and will try to kill you.

Play Black Knight Chess at Armor Games.

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Blu-ray review: Vantage Point

United States President Henry Ashton (William Hurt) is in Salamanca, Spain to attend an anti-terrorism summit. An American cable news channel is tracking the event, and Rex Brooks (Sigourney Weaver) is directing traffic from the OB van, when she notices Secret Service agent Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid), back on detail so soon after taking a bullet for Ashton earlier on in the year. She watches on her monitors as Ashton is introduced by the Spanish mayor, and is about to deliver his speech. Without warning, Ashton is shot twice in the chest, and utter chaos ensues. She watches as Secret Service agents surround the president and usher him into an ambulance, and amid the confusion, a massive explosion goes off in the plaza, completely destroying the podium and killing several people. At this point, the camera rewinds to the point in time where we initially joined Brooks, but the perspective changes.

The tagline for Vantage Point is “8 Strangers. 8 Points of View. 1 Truth”, and over the same 23-minute period that is looped over and over, the assassination of the U.S. President unfolds through the eyes of different people. With each perspective and subsequent rewind, a valuable new piece of the puzzle is revealed.

How complex does the puzzle get? Read on and find out.

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