Will you win the 4,000 MS Points?

Time for the contest is running out!

Submit your General Grier Speed Run Skirmish video by this Monday, January 26th.

You've got till just before Midnight EST!

Check out the contest page for more prizes and details of entry.

Speed Run Contest

To: Solus Contingent

From: General Grier

Your mission has been updated. Complete the Mountain Village Level AS FAST AS POSSIBLE! Prove your valor, annihilating the boss on video. You only have until January 26th or the Chuul will dominate the world.
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PRIZES

Framed, original, signed Weapon of Choice Production Art PLUS 4,000 Microsoft Points




Special, black T-shirt with Second Place Winner’s Speed Run time and Weapon of Choice logo.




Artist/Developer signed Weapon of Choice Alien Annual Calendar 2009, featuring monthly vivid images and insane poetry of disgusting Weapon of Choice aliens.

'08 Ends in a BLAST!

We are beginning to see the light of day as the tinsel and confetti begin to settle. With that, Nathan and I wish you a happy new year.

To reflect, 2008 was a great year, which ended with Weapon of Choice landing on some pretty sweet 'Games of 2008' lists:

• IGN's Best XBL Community Game 2008
• Nominee for IGN's Best XBL Action Game 2008
  
• Honorary Special Mention on Console Arcade's XBLA Game of 2008,
• GamerBytes & XNPlay's Top 10 XNA Community Games Of 2008.

Oh, and we should mention the pieces in The Official Xbox Magazine: Independents' Day is in the January edition on newsstands now (pdf version) and Opinion Editorial in the February edition. Plus, we are expecting future articles in Paste Magazine, Official Xbox Magazine-UK, and 360 Magazine-UK.

In addition, we received some excellent reviews (Weapon of Choice has now 'arrived' on Metacritic but needs more reviews to get an final score):

• 4 out of 4 stars on The Toronto Star ,
• 4.5 out of 5 with Cheat Code Central.
  
• We also recommend you read the review on Wonderwallweb - we do not know how something that sounds so fun, only equals 6.7 out of 10.

We are pleased that Weapon of Choice has been in the top 5 of best selling Community Games since the launch of the channel. Unfortunately, we have no idea what that means as far as actual sales numbers, but within top 5 for six weeks sure sounds cool.

We shall close with information about a pending podcast. Nathan is scheduled to be on the AVault podcast on Friday, January 9th. Tune in-- Nathan will be announcing details for the upcoming WoC Speed Run Contest.