Thanks everyone for entering our contest! Happy holidays and keep reading Kennedy New Media in 2010 for more contests, reviews, and general game awesomeness! Here’s a pic of a happy Cosmo2389 who is now playing Batman: Arkham Asylum free of charge thanks to Kennedy New Media. Here’s our winner sporting a rogue-ish smile with his new game. Congrats!
A Happy Comso2389 with his FREE copy of Batman: Arkham Asylum from KNM!
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As a rule, I remain unaware of most of the big game award shows, because they are mostly hype above substance. HOWEVER, Mark Hamill is up for the “Best Voice” award and this dude deserves to win. Not only is he THE Joker, but he’s a really cool guy to boot.
As I was made aware of this by my friend Mark Walters of Bigfanboy.com, I am linking both to his article as well as the voting page directly. Feel free to vote anywhere else you choose, but make sure you put Hamill on top for voice.
Spike Awards – “Best Voice” in a Video Game
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For those of you who check KNM on a regular basis, you know that I really don’t post a lot of press releases. This site is (mostly) about game reviews and my ramblings. However, every once in a while something jumps out at me because of its awesomeness, and this is one of those times. NVIDIA has built a ri-dic-u-lous rig and are auctioning it off for charity as of the time I’m posting this, its up around $4,000 with only about 18 bids. The auction ends in 4 days (Monday night/Tuesday morning around Midnight) so if you’ve got some cash you wanted to donate to a good cause, get in there and throw some bids down. I’ve lost family members to cancer, and this is a plague that can’t be eradicated fast enough!
Full Press Release below…
Ultimate NVIDIA Themed Gaming System for Auction on eBay – 100% of proceeds going to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society!
One of the fastest and most tricked out PCs ever built is up for auction on eBay
What:
One of the fastest, most tricked out PCs ever built has just been put up for auction on eBay. With a one of a kind NVIDIA themed paint job created by Smooth Creations, the system features two watercooled GeForce GTX 295 graphics cards in SLI, NVIDIA 3D Vision Glasses and Samsung 2233RZ 3D Vision Ready Display, an Intel Core i7 975 Extreme Edition CPU, 12GB of Crucial Ballistix DDR3 Memory, an ASUS Rampage II Gene X58 Motherboard, two 256GB Crucial SSD Hard Drives in Raid 0, two 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black Hard Drives, and more. Read the rest of this entry »
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The title says it all – we’re looking for people to spread the word about KNM, and for doing so they will get a chance to receive this sealed retail copy of Batman: Arkham Asylum for PC. Its as easy as that. I picked up an extra copy just to give away to one of our awesome readers. We’d love to be able to cover more games for you, but those pesky jobs get in the way, ya know? So, in an effort to boost traffic to the site, we’re going to start having giveaways! This is the first of what is likely to be many more to follow.
To enter:
Link to us on your blog or retweet this post on twitter. Cool note, you can do both and be entered TWICE. So, if you create a blog just to link to us and also post on twitter will you get two entries? YES.
For twitter, you can even just click below or click the bird up top:
To link to KNM from your blog, we need to be either in your blogroll or links section. It needs to be easily viewable wherever your links are kept. Link directly to the main website:
http://kennedynewmedia.com
TO HAVE YOUR ENTRY(S) COUNT:
Send an email to: tim@kennedynewmedia.com with the URL of your blog and where I will find the link. Also, link your twitter feed so I can see the RT.
That’s it, folks! We will be running this contest until 11/22/09. So you have 2 weeks to get those links and retweets going. KNM will cover shipping costs of mailing the game to you as long as you’re in the US. If you’re outside I’ll see what I can do. It will arrive for you to play or to gift to your favorite gamer in early December.
Good luck!
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Get Tales of Monkey Island Episode 1 free today @
In honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day, Telltale Games is giving away episode 1 its reincarnation of LucasArts’ beloved Tales of Monkey Island franchise. Tales of Monkey Island: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal will be available for free from the above site until 12am PST tonight. So, go get your download on and enjoy a very good adventure game from one of the premiere studios doing episodic content today.
PLUS, Steam is offering 50% off of the Tales of Monkey Island Special edition for the weekend. Get caught up on the story for $5!
Check it out on steam, or click HERE.
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In the mess of things that has been my life that has been the job hunt, school, web designing, and looking at the logistics of setting up my own business, I have been lax in my posting duties. However, I have not been lax in my game playing! I will be posting reviews soon of several games, including
You should see me back on a regular posting schedule, because I’ve missed writing about the games I so love 
Plus, I will be posting demos periodically of a game I’m working on for school. This is my first game design class and so its essentially me learning how to code, so please be gentle. The demo itself will be in another post.
Thanks for continuing to check the site and be patient while I got my life back in order after my untimely layoff. Good gaming!
Tim
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Press release below, but I just want to say that I am impressed with some of the releases that are getting the PhysX and now the 3D Vision Treatment. It seems like the number of titles are growing and from personal experience the feature sets are pretty good looking. From the pic below, the game looks utterly amazing.
Batman Arkham Asylum
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Turns out they have at least one song on Transformers 2. Its freakin epic. Here’s the vid from MySpace.
I really need to get out and see them when they come back through TX. Good news is that their new album is coming out this year!
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So I’ve been sicker than hell the past week and I’m just now feeling better. Many of you can attest that I’ve not even logged on to XBox Live in over a week. Also, the job hunt has been running me ragged.
Anyways, I’ve got to put in some time and finish a couple hot reviews that peeps are waiting on now that I can string a sentence or two together. Give me a week and I’ll be back on track.
In a cool news event, I’m going to Terminal Reality tomorrow to do a focus test on their latest game. Don’t know what game, since Ghostbusters is already gold and primed to be shipped in a week. Don’t even know if I’ll be able to talk about it but I’m hoping its awesome. I’m impressed with their Infernal Engine and definitely will let you guys know whatever I can about it. I’ll see if I can’t sit someone down for a short interview while I’m there.
Aight – I’m off to bed. (Relatively) Early morning tomorrow.
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So the hammer finally fell today, making my life even more interesting. Walking into work, I am called into the boss-lady’s office and given the axe due to a reduction in force. I’m offered a severance and told to hit the road – thanks for these past five years of hard work but we just can’t keep paying you and still make ends meet. A story I’m sure a lot of you have heard in recent months. Interestingly enough, if you’re on the internet and have somehow found your way to my blog then you share my passion for gaming and all things video games.
Just to answer the obvious question, no I did not know about my layoff before making my last post. Even moreso now, though, I could use the donations so I shamelessly ask for help with school again. Look to your right and donate something, ANYTHING, to the cause. I promise you’ll be included on the credits on my first game (developed independantly).
Oddly enough, I’m generally disgruntled but the fury that I had at my last layoff hasn’t set in yet. This is not to say that it won’t at some future point. I mean, I plan on taking full advantage of my severance pay to take some much needed recoup time and really start off in the right direction… however I don’t harbor an abundance of ire and rancor for my former employer. The company is poorly run on almost every level and its a hundred other people’s fault that we lost the major customer that we did, yet I can’t seem to find it in me to get worked up over it. After so many years I suppose I just accepted that that was the way they are and that is what they will continue to be. If I’m ever in direct competition with them on some level, I will feel sorry for them as I will definitely use their weaknesses against them.
But that’s just good business.
Anyways, the severance offering isn’t bad. It will definitely allow me to put my affairs in order and begin the job-hunt anew. I am still going forward with my school plans. I will have until August to worry about next semester and I hope to have something going by then. I fully expect to have 3-4 weeks off at the minimum. Part of my package was to work with an outplacement company and I intend to take all classes they have to offer to help me along my way but I’m not in a hurry. I mean, I have a freakin’ baby on the way!
Yes I’m bummed and thank everyone for their condolences. Please don’t tell me you’re sorry about my job – you didn’t do anything. Also, I hate pity. If you’d like to give encouragement that would be awesome. Even a, “Dude, that sucks ass.” would be welcome.
One thing that this does mean is that I can totally start working on my game backlog, crank out some reviews undisturbed, and get some shiz done around the house. Our pool looks like a bog and our grass harbors giant gnomes that go undetected in the safari-style grass. Plus, it’ll be a good time to plan out the home networking and finish getting the library set up PLUS I can get a start brushing my math skillz off and working on my C++.
That’s it for the layoff day update. I look forward to seeing more of you, internets. We have been apart too, too long.
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Yo I\'m Tim - I love playing games, writing, and giving opinions about games. Bet you probably could have guessed that, eh? I\'m currently studying towards a Game and Simulation Programming degree, hoping to finish by 2012. Its my dream to be in the game industry, doing AI or anything else, really. Meanwhile, I\'ll be here posting about the games I purchase and the games I\'m fortunate enough to be asked to review. If there\'s a game you want to see, drop me a line. Lastly, I’d like to drop a shout to those who\'ve inspired me somewhere along the way: GiantBomb.com, eat-sleep-game.com, cheapassgamer.com. These guys are some of the funniest and most interesting game podcast crews out there and I just want to say thanks for keeping us laughing.
