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As a thank you to everybody who helped us out with the Borderlands promotional contest, we’ll be having the oft-mentioned, previously-unscheduled pizza party on next Thursday evening (January 14th). As promised, the pizza will be free and we’re even going to have a LAN special for the night, whereupon you get a free third hour with a two hour purchase.

Considering the recent mood of the LAN, the likely swing of the room will see League of Legends play, though perhaps some Team Fortress 2 or Left 4 Dead 2 as well. Just the same, you watched our video, so come hang out with us next Thursday and enjoy some pizza.

I’m also strongly considering having a short Spaced marathon, in honour of because I feel like it. But, we’ll just see what folks wanna’ do.

Recommended show up time is sometime shortly after six to cast a topping vote, as I’m shooting for the pizza to have been ordered and arrived by seven.

Later!

We fought the good fight, gentle people of Game On! We fought it hard, like so much hard-bodied people what are hard.

Hard.

A few days ago, I received an E-mail from our iGames representative informing us that we received second place in the Borderlands promotional video contest. Naturally, I assume that there was some kind of breakdown in the judging process, as our video was quite obviously terrible enough for TWENTY first places, but I’m (not at all) a sportsmanlike kinda’ guy, so I’ma ask that you just let this injustice slide, and don’t take to the streets with the name of Muad’Dib on your lips.

Now I know that I said there’d be some amount of award if we took FIRST place, and that we ultimately ended up to the rear of the fellows that did (whose video really is quite good, by the way), but it seems entirely inappropriate to abandon that promise on something as trivial as a.. pfft.. detail. I mean, come on.

Fact: We asked you to watch our video, and you obliged.

Fact: We had the most number of views on YouTube.

Fact: There absolutely WILL be a pizza party, and we’ll also figure out some kind of awesome special on LAN hours for the evening.

Thank you so much for your support guys,
Damon

P.S. This will be cross-posted in the forum to figure out a good evening to do the free pizza/LAN special. Come to the forum if you want to weigh in.

Alright, so here’s the skinny, iGames, the kind people who make it possible for us to license games and get in new stuff and showcases from time to time (such as the Borderlands promotion we’ve all been jammin’ on lately), gave us a wonderful opportunity to be silly and creative and maybe make a few extra dollars.

(In confidence, a few extra dollars is always welcome around these here parts.)

Basically, the idea of it was to create a video centered around Borderlands and the promotion in the LAN, upload said video to YouTube, and then see who gets the most views.

In other words, we need your help.

We need you to go to YouTube. We need you to watch our video.

Many, many times.

Now here’s what’s in it for you:

1.) A pretty gosh-darned funny and entertaining video filled with colourful characters, attractive women, Borderlands, shocking twists, and palace intrigue.

2.) If we manage to net first prize in this thing, I will personally set an evening (with customer input, of course) on which to buy pizza for everybody in the store! Now this is a good deal, because I’m incredibly poor, so that means that the value and sentiment of me spending money on you is like getting up to make you several sandwiches after exhaustive, passionate lovemaking, and then also buying you pizza.

-UPDATE!-

3.) Game On! will happily donate one free hour of LAN time to everybody that shows up for the pizza party, and I will personally match an additional free hour out of my own pocket.

So, that’s a night of free pizza and two hours of free gaming if we take first in this thing. Right now, we’ve got a strong second in views, and are only barely lingering behind first.

Click on THIS LINK to watch our insanely awesome Borderlands video!

We need to get a few more pictures and a little more footage for a Borderlands promotion we’re putting together, and it’d be extra nice if we could get the entire LAN full of people playing. So, anybody who comes out for this Wednesday evening’s Team Fortress 2 night will be given a free hour, under the condition that they spend fifteen or so minutes of that time playing Borderlands, and are comfortable being on camera.

Team Fortress 2 night starts loosely around six o’clock.

Borderlands filming will start, tentatively, around 7:15-7:30.

[The official anniversary page can be reached by clicking here or on the "Anniversary" button above.]

Well, it’s been almost an entire year since the day we first opened this place up. Which, by the way, was something of a crazy-go-nuts, hair-raising (and losing), last-minute affair. It basically saw four people unpacking and arranging and downloading and installing and not sleeping (at all) well into our first day of business.

One year later and things aren’t all so different. Still plenty of lost sleep and last-minute figuring out of whatnots, but you certainly won’t hear us complaining (not all the time at least). We love this place, and we’re hoping a few of you out there love it too, because we’re going to throw a pretty schwanky (NOT to be confused with classy) get-together on the almost-official one year anniversary of the birth of “Game On!”, November 21st.

On that day, we will be hosting several tournaments and contests, alongside a veritable grip ton of other goings on, which you can read more about in just a second.

So here’s the thing. This is gonna’ cost us. Now we’re alright with that, as this day is about thanking and rewarding the people that have been with us so far, and welcoming any new people what wanna’ check us out. It’s for our patrons and our friends. It’s for all those who we’ve come to appreciate and love.

But it is gonna’ cost us.

Quite a lot, in fact.

Right off, let’s make it absolutely clear that we’re not trying to break a profit or anything. That’d be contrary to the spirit of the celebration. We are, however, trying to reduce the hit as much as possible, so we will be asking for a fifteen dollar cover.

That being said, let’s jump right into what kinda’ day that cover will deliver..

Update: Monday, Nov. 16th – The remainder of this post was thousands upon thousands of letters and amounted to a gigantic eyesore from which it was difficult to distill information. A much more organized and, dare we say, prettier page contains all of the details that were once here, and then some.

As mentioned above, you can find that page by clicking the “Anniversary” button at the top of our site or right here.