Swagbag update

My most sincere apologies to anyone whom this may have affected. Basically, the micropolll embedded voting thing is fucked. I can re-embed the html but all the results are now gone. Also, until last night, I didn't realise that you could vote several times just by clearing your cookies. I set it to limit one vote per IP address, but unfortunately, there seems like there was a way around that too.

This is only a minor setback though, I just need your patience and understanding. As of now, we are taking votes again through both email and comments. Only registered Google/Blogger Id's will be counted in the comments so if you don't have one, sign up or just e-mail your vote to thefauxbot@gmail.com

You can comment on either this post or the post with all the entrants in, as I understand some of you already have.

In retrospect, I should have done it this way from the start, but we live and learn and here's hoping for more streamlined and more successful giveaways in the future. Feel free to shout at me in the meantime though. Obviously the swag won't be making it in time for Christmas now, so I will be extending the closing date for votes until 1st January 2010 - giving plenty of time for lost votes etc. to be re-acquired.

Again, I can't apologise enough. Make sure you let your voters know the changes and hopefully this will all get back on track. Best of luck.....again.

Oh yeah, and did I mention how sorry i am?

Dear EA - I take it all back.

I've never been kind to EA, and with good reason. Years of dull sequels and their ongoing campaign to eradicate Take-Two sicken me. Their greed, it seems, knows no bounds and like most companies at the top of their respective food chains, they won't be entirely happy until the competition is all but dead and they have a license to print their own money.

Despite this, I've never doubted the positive effects that some EA fat-cash (tm) could have for smaller, more imaginative developers, look at Skate for example. EA have been putting their fingers in all the right pies lately, what with Rock Band currently reminding me of just how bad Guitar Hero 3 really is and some lovely looking new IP in the forms of Dead Space and Mirror's Edge. I wanted to refrain from the old shenanigans of just posting and commenting on game play vids, but here are some frankly stunning game play vids, and these words are my comments on them.

The Mirror's Edge one is a tad old, but I promised 'ol Rightbullets that I'd post it ages ago, yet I couldn't find a good enough reason to do so. The Dead Space videos are as fresh as the blood that covers every inch of the screen and do more than enough to convince me that EA are headed in the right direction. That on-screen display, that art design and the wondrous, wondrous sound. I am very, very excited for Dead Space. Mirror's Edge too, but I'm pretty sure I blew that load when I posted the screenshots.

FEAST!







The Faux Bot