posted by Chris on February 4, 2008 6:05 PM in Geek Culture
We asked you guys to come up with your best examples of crazy PopCap game cover art, and you definitely exceeded expectations. Our contest was a rousing success and we have some fantastic prizes to give away, so let's get to the losers! I mean... the people who were awesome but not as awesome as the... awesome people.
C yoolly certainly entered this contest! His grandma sounds like a cool lady.
Bfeld sure likes Homestar Runner.
Sam Spina has a dirty mind.
Nick spent his life savings on an MS Paint certification.
Tim found this game advertised in his Grandma's copy of Reader's Digest.
Winners after the jump!
continue reading "PopCap Contest Winners!"
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posted by Chris on February 4, 2008 4:33 PM in Podcast
While all the rest of the world was scouring the Internet for videos of their favorite Super Bowl commercials, The Weekly Geek was recording our least caustic podcast ever! Chris, Qais, Mack and Colette ramble about the dangers of man-children, squeal about Ender's Game becoming a...uh...game (speculating which other books would make good games in the process), cast a realistically pessimistic eye on Rock Band for the Wii, and unapologetically profess their rampant book-lust. Our PopCap cover contest winners are announced within, and the moment you've all been waiting for: Qais gets a new gamertag.
Download the podcast here, subscribe to the feed and check out the show notes after the jump.
continue reading "Podcast for 02-04-08 | Talismanic"
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posted by Chris on February 4, 2008 8:16 AM in
Contest ends tonight at 6pm! Get your entries in!
Wanna win some awesome free stuff? As announced on this week's podcast, we've got an art contest going on where you can win one of three fantastic prize packs, courtesy of PopCap Games. All you have to do is come up with the cover art for a new casual classic. Make up your own name or choose from our list:
- Scubblejubs
- Kerfufflepop 2
- Kerplunkleclam
- Qais Fulton Gem Explosion
- Bizzleteats 2000
- Or make up your own WACKY casual game title!
What's in the prize packs, you ask? Items that will surely make you more popular, more beautiful and certainly smarter than your peers.
First Prize
A prize pack containing: full retail copies of Insaniquarium, Bookworm, Bejeweled, Bejeweled 2, Peggle and Chuzzle, a PopCap lanyard, PopCap paddle-ball (for when you are not playing Peggle I guess), a PopCap business card holder, PopCap t-shirt, PopCap backpack, PopCap notepads and spiral bound notebook, PopCap hat and a PopCap soft flying disk thing. Also included are a variety of Chuzzles for you to re-enact The Trouble With Tribbles. It's like a procrastination kit!
Second Prize
A Prize pack containing: full retail copies of Chuzzle and Insaniquarium, a PopCap hat, PopCap insulated lunch bag, lanyard and t-shirt. Also some Chuzzles got in there. Those rascals.
Third Prize
A prize pack containing: a full retail copy of Ducktales The Quest for Gold for the IBM PC, a Mass Effect t-shirt and a PopCap t-shirt. Shoot for third, folks. Shoot for third.
Email your entries to contest@weeklygeekshow.com by Monday, February 4th where the top three entries will be announced on that night's podcast.
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posted by Grant on November 7, 2007 8:28 AM in Cartoons, Geek Culture
The latest installment of Avatar: The Last Airbender starts off with the often-used gimmick of having something shocking start off the show that we're right in the middle of, and then cuts to a "X days earlier" scene. It's a little clichéd for Avatar's style, but I really can't think of many sci-fi or fantasy shows that haven't used it at one time or another. So anyway, Toph is suddenly captured by the local authorities and we see that Katara is the one who turned in the little blind Earthbender. Oh dip! What could have brought this on? Why, Katara? Why? Toph doesn't smell that bad, does she?
Oh so many spoilers await you, gentle reader.
Need to get caught up? You can find Avatar The Last Airbender - The Complete Book 2 Collection in our store!
continue reading "Avatar Recap: Book 3, Chapter 7"
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posted by Chris on October 22, 2007 6:04 PM in Podcast
On this week's podcast, Chris, Grant and Qais are joined by the ever awesome and well-spoken N'Gai Croal from Newsweek's Level Up (remix style wiki wiki scrrrch). N'Gai brought a level of intelligent discourse never before heard on The Weekly Geek, discussing issues ranging from the infantilization of games, to the portrayal of games in the media, to pronouncing fighting games dead and talking about games fulfilling their potentials. Inspiring! Download the podcast here, and then subscribe on iTunes. Hit the jump for show notes.
weeklygeek_102207.mp3
continue reading "Podcast for 10-22-07 | Fulfill Your Potential"
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posted by Chris on October 19, 2007 1:40 PM in
Some highlights from this week in Geek, and previews of subjects we are going to discuss on next week's podcast! Remember you can always track what we are going to talk about every week on our del.icio.us list.
Feed our mailbag! Send any Geek culture, video game, movie, cartoon, what-have-you related questions to mailbag@weeklygeekshow.com and have your question answered on air.
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posted by Qais on October 2, 2007 3:41 PM in Games, Geek Culture
We at Chez Geek are unabashed fans of Goozex and while most of the rational, frontal lobe equipped set are as well, there are still a few holdouts I'm sure. If the square trade system isn't enough to make your tingle equipped bits tingle then their latest promotion almost certainly will.
The glorious bastards at Goozex are giving away Xbox 360s, and not just any 360, no they're giving away Halo 360s. That's right, now while you scream obscenities at people you'll never meet you can rest easy in the knowledge that you are the penultimate Halo fan, either that or you won an Xbox 360, either way a resounding success in whole.
Go check out the contest here and while you're there trade some games without getting completely raped by corporate America.
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posted by Grant on September 24, 2007 9:35 AM in Geek Culture
Well, the Podcastiversary Contest has been over for a bit now. And if you wanna know who won, you gotsta go listen to the last podcast episode to find out.
However, I thought that all of you who participated in the contest might like to know all the correct answers to our multitude of questions and where some of the questions came from. I also want to share with you some of the hilarious incorrect answers that were submitted.
Hit the jump and all shall be revealed!
continue reading "Podcastiversary Answers"
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posted by Chris on September 16, 2007 4:46 PM in Geek Culture
That's right, you only have until 7pm PST, Monday September 17th to enter our ginormous Giant Bag O' PAX Swag™, compiled from the Penny Arcade Expo 2007. All you have to do is answer more trivia about The Weekly Geek than anyone else! The winner will be announced on Monday's podcast. We've had a bunch of entries but no one has gotten all the questions yet? Will someone prove they are the biggest Weekly Geek fan in the world and subsequently creep us all out?
Hit the jump for the questions, and email your answers to contest@weeklygeekshow.com.
continue reading "PAX Contest Reminder! LAST DAY HOLY CRAP"
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posted by Chris on September 9, 2007 6:38 PM in Geek Culture
There's only a week left in the Podcastiversary contest, where you can have a chance at winning a Giant Bag O' PAX Swag™, compiled from the Penny Arcade Expo 2007. Oh man, this is a lot of stuff. We have a number of t-shirts, unopened Magic card packs, buttons, stickers, posters and more and all you have to do to win it is answer more questions correctly than anyone. The subject? Weekly Geek trivia.
Hit the jump for the questions, and email your answers to contest@weeklygeekshow.com. It's just that easy. Contest ends September 16th.
continue reading "PAX Giveaway Contest Reminder"
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posted by Amy on September 2, 2007 2:27 PM in Games
Update: We have a winner! Congratulations to Tanya Spence! Your prize will be in the mail soon. Thanks to everyone who participated!
In honor of the release of Guild Wars: Eye of the North, we are giving away exclusive PAX Guild Wars swag to the first person to correctly answer the following questions:
1. The acronym for Guild Wars: Eye of the North, GW:EN, is also the name of a NPC. Who is she?
2. What is the primary difference between Guild Wars: Eye of the North and Factions or Nightfall?
The winner will receive 1 Miniature Grawl code and 4 skill pins! Send your answer to amy@weeklygeekshow.com.
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posted by Grant on June 3, 2007 10:05 AM in Food, Geek Culture
So I'd seen on the ol' internet a while ago about this wacky bag of chips from Doritos that had only an odd product number instead of a name. Apparently, they've got a new flavor and want us to come up with a name for it. If you win, you get free Doritos for a year. Whatever.
So anyway, whilst grocery shopping at my local Albertson's, I happened to come across a bag of these things and decided to pick it up to see what they were like. Wanna know what mystery chips taste like? Well click the jump and find out.
WARNING: SNACK FOOD SPOILERS CONTAINED WITHIN
continue reading "NAMELESS CHIPS"
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posted by Grant on May 9, 2007 12:10 PM in Geek Culture
No, the winner isn't the worst in the world, just the contest.
That's right, I've finally picked a winner in the contest for something broken!
My broken USB Nintendo WiFi Dongle will go to international geek-kateer, Max "Milhouse" Wagner. Max lives all the way across the pond in the tiny little country of Luxembourg. I decided to pick Max because this seems to be the only possible way that he'll get to play with his DS online. He doesn't have a wireless LAN, there are no WiFi hotspots in the country, and both Nintendo and eBay will not ship to him. He may very well be the only person in the whole country who even owns a DS. And so here comes The Weekly Geek to save the day!
Now I just hope he doesn't have any problems with fixing it, making this whole thing meaningless.
Congratulations, Max!
And thanks to all who participated. Sorry, but you just couldn't beat this awesomely sad story.
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