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CCP has announced that voting for the EVE is Real contest has begun.

EVE is Real site is a collection of videos, images, and text created by players archiving the eight years of EVE Online’s persistent universe. Over 4000 player-made images, videos and posts are located on the site. The site is divided into the categories of War, Exploration, Corp Recruitment, Freestyle, and EVE is Real, the last of which seems to be a collection of player views on how realistic and lifelike various aspects of EVE gameplay feels to them. The posts range from poignant and precious to terrifying or hilarious.

Every person can vote for one image and one video per day. Prizes include 20 GEFORCE GTX 460 SE video cards for image winners and a grand prize of an ALIENWARE AREA-51 PC for the video contest winner. Voting ends September 1st.

CCP recently announced their EVE is Real site which stores a growing collection of some pretty awesome videos, images, and texts created by players archiving the eight years of EVE Online’s persistent universe.

More than 1000 player-made images, videos and posts have been received so far. The museum is cataloged into War, Exploration, Corp Recruitment, Freestyle, and EVE is Real, the last of which seems to be a collection of player views on how realistic and lifelike various aspects of EVE gameplay feels to them. The posts range from poignant and precious to terrifying or hilarious.

EVE is Real is also running a series of contests that will benefit individual EVE players as well as the EVE gamer universe as a whole. The EVE is Real site provides a method of sharing these videos, images, and text with other players. Each piece of content that is shared is counted towards a whole, with an unknown bulk number unlocking an amount of Aurum for the entire EVE universe.

The first level of sharing rewards was unlocked this week, triggering a 1,000 Aurum reward for each of EVE’s subscribers, the equivalent of over $1.89MM USD worth of virtual currency and the equivalent of 107,000 months of gametime (AKA PLEX). Aurum was recently introduced with the Noble Exchange as part of EVE Online: Incarna, EVE’s latest free expansion. There are still three more levels to unlock.

There is also an image and video contest to enter. Submissions can be made until August 18th, at which time EVE Online players will vote on all images and videos available until the contest ends on September 1st. Players can win a GEFORCE GTX 460 SE or ALIENWARE AREA-51 PC.

Want to win an autographed guitar and Portal 2 swag? Like creating videos? Here’s your chance to satisfy both.

Valve Software and recording artist The National are sponsoring a contest. Starting today and running until midnight July 15th, the contest asks the community to make a music video for the song “Exile Vilify”, the Portal 2 piece that The National composed, using whatever visuals they choose.

Once aspiring video directors have completed their work, they may submit their videos on YouTube using the tag PORTAL2NATIONALEXILE. After the deadline, Valve, The National, and the community will select the winner who will win a prize package including a guitar autographed by The National plus a collection of Portal 2 merchandise.

For more information regarding the Portal 2 Music Video Contest, please visit thinkwithportals.com.

The deadline for the App Store 10 Billion Countdown Contest is tonight. Just guess on the iGame Radio Facebook page when the countdown will be over, and whomever is closest to the actual time will be the winner!

The winner will get a special edition package of Bejeweled 3, including Bejeweled 3 for the Mac, a Bejeweled 3 Strategy Guide, and a custom mouse pad. All decisions by iGame Radio are final. Have a great weekend!

Want a special edition package of Bejeweled 3? Think you know when the Mac App Store countdown will turn over to 10 billion? Then you might be just the person to enter the Mac App Store 10 Billion Countdown Contest! All you have to do is decide when you think that countdown will turn over, then post your guess on the iGame Radio Facebook page. The person whose guess is closest to the actual time will be the winner! All decisions by iGame Radio are final, so there. ;)

Steam has announced the Great Steam Treasure Hunt. Now through December 20th, completing objectives will qualify you for a drawing to win the top five games on your Wishlist. No purchase is necessary to qualify.

Every 48 hours, a list of four objectives will be posted on the Great Steam Treasure Hunt page. Completing one objective enters you in a drawing for a chance to win five games from your Wishlist. The more objectives you complete, the higher chance you have of winning. If you complete any ten of the objectives listed throughout the Treasure Hunt and log into Steam on the 20th of December, then you get a chance to win 100 games of your choosing. Oh, and because you can never have too many hats, completing a set of objectives can result in unlocking hats for Team Fortress 2. Three different hats are available, including the Hat of Undeniable Wealth and Respect.

Valve does state that no purchase is necessary to qualify, but of the first four objectives listed, only one does not require that you own a Steam game. And only one of the three games listed is a game available for the Mac. Further, if you do the math, you’ll end up with only seven objectives that don’t require you to purchase a game in order to qualify for the 100 games drawing. Which means that if you want the chance at those 100 games, you’ll have to have purchased at least three of them.

You can login to see your progress at any time, and new objectives are posted every 48 hours. The promotion will end on December 20th.

Com2uS has five finalists for its Touch The Beat game contest to choose the user-created icon for the game. You can vote now on which icon will be the one for the music game that will be released soon for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.

TTB is a new type of rhythm action game where users can tap, drag, hold and multi touch the wide screen of their iOS devices listening to music. The key to this game is that players can create their own games using their own music from their iphones, ipod touches and ipads, then share them with friends. You can check out the trailer for the game to get an idea of how the gameplay, and especially how creating a game, works.

To vote in the contest, head to the Touch the Beat contest site and click on the icon you want to win.

The folks at Sandlot Games are prepping for their new game Cake Mania: Lights, Camera, Action! But they are in a bind. Jake and Jill Evans need a name for their baby, but Sandlot doesn’t have any ideas. Do you?

Sandlot’s upcoming game will feature a new addition, so the developer has started a Name the Baby contest. Just submit your entry via their Facebook page, and your entry could be the winning name used in the game.

Entry into the contest requires that you be 13 years of age or older, but you get to enter both boys and girls names. All entries will be judged based on creativity and originality and adherence to the Cake Mania brand of games and the Sandlot Games brand. Two winners will be chosen, and they will also get a free copy of the game, and a $50 gift certificate to Sandlot Games.

The contest ends on May 28th, and the winners will be announced after June 20th.

On another note, one should always read the terms of service of anything one signs. For example, I didn’t know that $103.87 is less than $69.99.

Haypi Kingdom is a new MMOG for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. To promote the game, the developers, Haypi, Inc, are running a contest. Winners of the contest can get an iPad and other prizes every 15 days. However, the press release that I received from the company was pretty confusing. For one, nowhere in the press release did they actually detail what the contest actually entailed. They only called it an “…upcoming PVP server competition where an iPad and other prizes will be awarded every 15 days.” Haypi also talked about how the “victory requires preparation and extensive knowledge of game tricks and strategies it does not scare off award-contenders.” It seemed pretty clear that the contest involved playing the game in some fashion.

So I was pretty surprised when I went to the forum, and the only contest that I found mentioned involved writing reviews. Read more

PopCap Games is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Bejeweled, one of the most popular match-three games of all time, in style. The Show Your Bejeweled Love contest encourages you to submit a YouTube video illustrating or describing in some way your love for this simple, yet well-loved, video game in two minutes or less. All types of submissions are welcome, from weird to fanatical, and anywhere in between.

The top ten winners have access to $5000 US in prizes, including a limited edition notebook PC and two iPads, each with custom-designed, “Bejeweled 10th Anniversary” engravings. The contest ends May 26th 2010 and is open to residents of the US, Canada (except Quebec) and the UK.

Judging will be performed by members of PopCap’s art and game design teams throughout the contest period, and will be based on three criteria: enthusiasm, presentation and knowledge of Bejeweled. All top entries, as well as complete contest rules and the official submission form, will be posted on the site during the contest.

Someone got a head start.