Are you a fan of real world cars and locations but always thought standard racing games were a bit… dull?
Do you like the power-ups and over-the-top nature of kart racers but can’t get behind the cartoony style?
Looks like Activision’s Blur might be to your liking, then. And what luck! – CFD! is giving away codes for the recently started Xbox 360 multiplayer beta!
Ready to get your Blur on? Race past the jump for details…
Hey there, everyone! It’s contest wrap-up time!
Sorry about the delay in getting the winners up. Don’t think we forgot about you all! We just got a little overloaded with working on a bunch of other things (like trying to get more giveaways secured for you all – more on that in another post coming soon) and it just slipped past us. We actually did pick winners after the cutoff on Monday night, however, just like we promised.
And who are those lucky four winners, you ask? For that info, you’re going to have to head under the jump…
We mentioned around the time of our recent reboot that we wanted to do some giveaways to celebrate CFD!’s one year anniversary this month and we do our best to make good on our promises. So here we go!
We’re sure you may have heard tell about the Darksiders giveaway, where some early purchasers of the game received a mystery code, the purpose of which was only recently revealed. Well, it seems that CFD! has found itself in possession of a stack of these codes and it would be greedy of us to just hold on to them all ourselves. So, we here at Crush! Frag! Destroy!, being the generous souls we are, are giving away not one, not two, not even three, but four (!) sets of prizes for this particular contest! Each winner will receive a digital Hellbook disc, containing “Darksiders art, videos, and other awesome stuff!” as well as a copy of THQ’s Red Faction: Guerrilla for either PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360!
Wanna know how? Hit the jump for all the rules and details…
As 2009 winds to a close, gamers around the world look back and reflect on the year that just passed. And while it may be ridiculously cliche, as rarely does a year go by without someone saying it, I’ll say it anyway…
What a spectacular year it was for games!
Seriously, 2009 – even with its myriad delays and controversies, not to mention a huge Recession – turned out some interesting, engrossing, and just plain amazing games.
Meanwhile, we here at CFD! are likewise winding down the year. In the midst of staff being busy with travel, moving and various engagements (as well as preparing for our first anniversary in operation next February) we kind of forgot until the last minute that… you know… maybe we should chime in on our picks for “Game of the Year”, like every other site is doing?
So while we’ve been discussing and voting on that amongst ourselves, we also want to hear what you guys thought were the best games of 2009.
Enter – Crush! Frag! Destroy!’s 2009 Game of the Year Reader’s Choice!
It’s a question that’s been on everyone’s mind: what will be the next class to get updated in Team Fortress 2? All that’s left now are the Soldier, Demoman, and Engineer. Well, a new teaser comic, which was posted Wednesday, will leave all the Engineers in tears.
In it, we are finally introduced to the Announcer and her adorable little assistant. Turns out that the red Demoman and blue Soldier have become friends. The Announcer, not willing to let such a transgression go unattended, decides that the best way to take care of the situation is with a healthy competition. But why am I telling you all this when you’re obviously going to go read the comic yourself?
Good. Now that you’ve gotten that done, let’s answer all the questions you might have… after the jump.
Before we get to announcing the winner, I have a couple of things to throw out there.
First off, thanks for being patient with us. We were originally supposed to announce the results a week ago, but there was a bit of a snafu surrounding that.
Secondly, regarding said snafu – For future reference: if you are entering a contest where a PC game is the prize, please be sure your computer can run said game before entering! We recommend going to Can You Run It? and checking your comp out there. It’s a super handy tool for quickly checking your rig out for whatever game you may be interested in.
Lastly, thanks to everyone who entered (all three of you…geez – what’s with people not wanting free games?). Hopefully we’ll see a bit better response for our next contest.
Hit the jump for the results.
It’s no big secret. Zombies have been the new hotness in the media for a while now. One can hardly swing a dead cat, zombified or not, without hitting something that has been touched by the taint of the hungry dead.
However, we here at CFD! know something that most of the casual masses don’t: the recent rash of zombie related books, movies and video games aren’t just fun, escapist entertainment – they’re actually preparing us for the impending zombie apocalypse! All of these bits of survival information that we’ve been consuming over the years via mass media are actually what’s going to make the difference when Z-Day finally comes.
So, to help prepare you all (and to celebrate the release of the “Crash Course” DLC pack, I suppose… you know, in theory) CFD! is giving away a copy of Left 4 Dead for PC, via Steam. All we want to know, to help us separate those who stand a good chance to benefit from this training from the ones who’ll end up as Chex Mix for the shambling undead hordes, is the following: “What is your zombie apocalypse survival plan?”
To enter, make sure you have an account with our site (sign-up is at the top of the rightmost sidebar), and join CFD!’s Steam group (the link is a little further down, under Follow Us). Once you’ve done that, hit the comments below and outline your survival plan. You can make it super serious and realistic or as ridiculously weird as you like. The winner will be picked from the entries that we find the most helpful and/or entertaining. Entries will be cut off at midnight Eastern/9pm Pacific on Friday, October 9th and a winner will be picked and posted Saturday, October 10th.
Good luck! And remember to aim for the head!
And the contest is closed, folks. It’s all over but the screaming. Well, there’s still plenty of screaming, I suppose, but that’s pretty damn metal, right?
Thanks to everybody who entered. We wish we’d been able to put it together with a bit more notice, but we wanted to make sure that we gave out the codes before too long, otherwise it wouldn’t end up being very much of an early access, would it?
For those of you who forgot, we asked for your answers to the following question:
“Brütal Legend is already the most metal game of all time. However, if the Gods of Metal allowed you to add just one thing to it that would make the game even more metal (if indeed that were possible), what would it be?”
And the winners are…
UPDATA: And we’re done. Thanks to everyone who entered. Look for the winners to be announced shortly.
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Hey there, headbangers!
Want to get in on the Brütal Legend demo early but you didn’t pre-order the game from GameStop?
Or maybe your local store just ran out of codes by the time your hangover from the big concert’s after party wore off?
Don’t worry – Crush! Frag! Destroy! has your back!
We have two codes to give away, one for PS3 and one for Xbox 360, and all we need you to do is answer this one question:
“Brütal Legend is already the most metal game of all time. However, if the Gods of Metal allowed you to add just one thing to it that would make the game even more metal (if indeed that were possible), what would it be?”
If you don’t already have an account at CFD!, sign up for one using the login at the top of the left sidebar (be sure to use a valid email address so we can get the code to you if you win) and leave your suggestions in the comments below. Don’t forget to specify which system you want the code for. One entry per person.
We will pick a winner from the best suggestions (one on each platform) tomorrow night at midnight Eastern/9pm Pacific time, so you’ll need to act faster than Yngwie Malmsteen’s fingers if you want to get in on this!
(And we swear, that is probably the only time you’ll ever see Yngwie’s name mentioned on this site.)
First off, I’d just like to thank each and every one of you who participated in this contest. When I started this site a little over six months ago, I don’t think I would have anticipated it growing as much as it has in the short time it’s been around.
I’d like to thank all my friends who followed me here from 1up.com, some of whom just to read and comment, some of whom ended up joining on and writing for CFD! as well. I’d like to thank everyone who referred a friend to us, RT’ed a tweet or reposted a story on Facebook. I’d like to thank every random, anonymous person who found us via a Google search or link on another site and actually came back to visit us a second or third time of their own accord.
I’d buy each and every one of you a game if I could. But, sadly, I’m not made of money. That will not, however, stop me from rewarding you guys for readership and loyalty whenever I can, which is why I wanted to run this contest in the first place. We hit a nice milestone at six months and I hope we have many more to come. Let’s see where we can go from here, okay? I’d love for you all to join me on the ride.
But enough touchy-feely emotional crap – you all want to know who won, right? That’s what I’m here to tell you.
We took all of your entries, calculated them up and then assigned a range of numbers to each contestant, based on the order they entered the contest. We then consulted the stars, cast the bones and divined the future in the entrails of a goat. When that failed to help us we drew a random number instead, thanks to the good folks at Random.org, and compared it to the chart. We probably should have thought of that a bit sooner, because now the gr3ml1n5 are playing in the goat blood and making rather a big mess of the place. But I digress…
Without further ado, the winner of the Crush! Frag! Destroy! Six Month Anniversary Free Game Giveaway is…
Rob Thomas
Exec. Editor & Founder
Jason Smith
Contributing Editor
Nate Andrews
Contributing Editor
Rob Rich
Assoc. Reviews Editor
Sage Knox
Contributing Editor
Steve Chowen
Contributing Editor
Aubrey K.
Art & Graphics
Zuri Grimm
Site Graphics
Scott Thompson
Podcast Producer
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