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 title pretty much highlights the thrust of it:
You can now try the demo for Left 4 Dead 2 in our LAN.
Also available is a Borderlands showcase (one free hour just to check it out).
This post is pretty much to let you know that it’s all up and running. There’ll be a more official, promotional announcement in a couple of days.
[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.
Courtesy of iGames and the S2Games, we are now running the showcase for a standalone DotA game called Heroes of Newerth. Much like the Warcraft III original map, the game encompasses a map, a variety of unique heroes and items with which to upgrade them. The game play is eerily similar, a combination of knowledge, quick thinking and solid strategy, although the characters themselves have been vastly modified and the game has been brought up to speed graphically. It’s also now stands on its own, no longer reliant on WC3. At this time, Game On has five beta accounts, so please inquire with an employee if you are interested in trying this new game out. Once the game comes out of beta, it will cost $30 to get an account and it is our understanding that the software itself is free. The accounts will have stat tracking and, unlike DotA, multiplayer games will be much easier to both find and join.
Gameplay Screenshot
To understand where Heroes of Newerth comes from and how it plays one has to be somewhat aware of how it came about. Originally, a custom map was created for Warcraft 3 that features heroes and items battling against each other. The sheer number of heroes and items made the game a steep learning curve (go memorize a thousand possible permutations) but once familiar, we hear tell that it’s a very fun map to play. Defense of the Ancients, however, was limited by both the tile sets, which comes from Warcraft itself, and battle.net which had problems both with multiple PCs on one network and game joining. Heroes of Newerth takes this idea one step further and turns the single map into a full gaming experience. They’ve had the opportunity to create better grapgics, add heroes and items, and do so much more that just wasn’t part of Warcraft 3. This game should and does stand in its own right.
One Hero in the land of Newerth
To note, this does not mean that DotA will no longer be available at Game On! This is just another opportunity to play with friends.
