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Dead Island publisher Deep Silver is holding a holiday celebration, giving away piles of loot including a collection of 10 classic zombie flicks on Blu-Ray; a PlayStation 3 with an airbrushed Dead Island design; a 46″ Bravia TV; and a week’s vacation for two plus custom painted Xbox 360. To enter, head on over to the dedicated competition mini-site, and prove your Dead Island knowledge by answering quizzes. Prizes will be awarded every day until December 25, so don’t forget to check back. Dead Island is available on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360; a new piece of DLC released last week.

Thanks, Ve3D.

EA will transport one lucky gamer and three mates to visit DICE HQ in Stockholm, among other sweet prizes on offer in this weekend’s Sweepstakes promotion.

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To honour the release of Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, Kevin Butler is offering $10,000 to whoever has the greatest physical endurance and free time.

To win, all you need to do is sit in front of your webcam, holding your arm out, for longer than anybody else. No, really, but the current champion has over two hours under his belt. The promo also offers $500 daily prizes.

Watch Butler’s fierce introduction and try your luck at the promotion’s website – but be advised, only US residents are eligible, and you may want to glance over the rules and FAQ – no fake hands are eligible.

Solve a couple of puzzles and you and a friend could be off to visit Istanbul, the modern-day city once known as Constantinople and the setting for Assassin’s Creed: Revelations.

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Activision has announced that they will be awarding one lucky gamer in the United States a $50,000 cash prize for finding a hidden “golden buck” in Cabela’s Big Game Hunter 2012 thanks to the Activision Golden Buck Sweepstakes.

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SCEJ president Hiroshi Kawano doesn’t feel Nintendo’s 3DS is a direct competitor to Vita, due to the two handhelds being vastly different from each other in not only looks and tech, but price point.

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Riot Games has announced that Season Two of League of Legends will rank among the most lucrative of Western eSports, with a $5 million prize pool.

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GAME Australia and Turtle Beach are calling on the best Aussie Halo: Reach and Call of Duty: Black Ops teams to compete in the Battle of the Clans, with a sweet prize pool offering corporate sponsorship.

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Valve is determined to make a splash with DotA 2′s gamescom debut, offering $1 million in cash to the winners of its first tournament.

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To celebrate hitting a weighty 3,000 track milestone in the Rock Band library, Harmonix is giving away 3,000 free tracks to lucky US fans.

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This was supposed to be a quiet week. I’m going to spend the weekend sobbing quietly in a wardrobe wishing games didn’t exist. These nibbles are all I can manage before I go.

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Namco Bandai is giving lucky Dark Souls fans-in-waiting the chance to design a shield for inclusion in the finished game.

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It’s Tuesday morning in your time zone, which means it’s cocktail hour in mine. Enjoy these shorts while I slip off to the pub.

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Wanna be the very best, like no one ever was? A series of events across Europe, the UK and the US beginning next month will culiminate in a Pokémon Black and White World Championship in August.

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Blizzard wants your memories, but in its defence it’ll give you an all-expenses trip to BlizzCon as compensation.

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LittleBigPlanet 2 is freely available at retail – in exchange for currency, according to capitalist principles – but that doesn’t mean we’re over it. A new pair of trailers takes you behind the scenes at the Media Molecule offices and teases a Toyota Prius promotional competition with some hefty swag up for grabs.

Jump through for details.

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Yeah. Apparently this site is read by talented, dangerous perverts. Pretty obviously, NSFW.

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OK. We’ve got PS3 promo copies of PES 2010, Madden 10 and OpFlash: Dragon Rising sitting here. We’re looking at them. Do you want them? Then comment below. We’ll give them out as follows:

• 100th comment – Madden NFL 10 (PS3)
• 200th comment – Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising (PS3)
• 300th comment – PES 2010 (PS3)

Got it? Go!

EA’s apologised over its “Sin to Win” Dante’s Inferno Comic Con competition, saying the contest’s T&C wording had caused “confusion and offense”.

The contest asked convention attendees to commit “an act of lust” with an EA booth babe and take a picture for proof. A “Night of Lust” was promised for the winner.

While only a “special” person would actually read this as doing something illegal, some people got pissed off.

“‘Commit acts of lust’ is simply a tongue-in-cheek way to say take pictures with costumed reps,” said the publisher.

“Also, a ‘Night of Lust’ means only that the winner will receive a chaperoned VIP night on the town with the Dante’s Inferno reps, all expenses paid, as well as other prizes.”

Shame on you, EA. Shame.

Via Negative Gamer and Kotaku.

Microsoft’s offering a trip to E3 and a car in this competition, but you can only enter if you’re American. Which is great and rubbish, all at the same time.

Here’s what you can win:

• A trip for two to LA to attend the Microsoft E3 Press briefing
• $3000 cash (1k for travel and 2k for car taxes)
• A home theater system that includes a Flat-Panel HDTV, Bose Home Theatre System, Xbox Elite Console, 120gb Zune, plus one year of Xbox LIVE Gold and Zune Pass. (valued at $4,800)
• A 2010 Kia Soul Sport (valued at $18,000)

Get to it, American videogame fans.