Your dialogue here?

Just began downloading my copy of Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition on Xbox Live, looking forward to playing it.

In other Monkey Island news, Telltale Games has begun a contest to get your dialogue in an upcoming episode of Tales of Monkey Island.  All you have to do is write an explanation of how you’ve been wronged by Guybrush Threepwood, and if your line is voted the best, it’ll be passed on to the voice actors for inclusion in a future ToMI episode.

Be sure to get your suggestion in!  I’ll drop a review of Special Edition after I’ve had a play.

Not to give the contest away, but at least be pre-warned

Anyone who has played both inFamous and Prototype is inexplicably drawn to compare the two and which one is better.  Yahtzee from The Escapist was no exception.  When reviewing the two games, he found it difficult to choose one as being superior, so he jokingly proposed a challenge to the games’ prospective developers to decide the winner.  Given the site’s popularity, he probably shouldn’t have been surprised when both developers agreed to participate.

And the results just came in.

Oh dear.

Oh me, oh my.

Let’s just say that it’s an art contest.  I’ll leave you to discover the rest yourselves.

My mind was inexplicably drawn to this image

Saw this one over on GamerLimit and couldn’t help but repost.

So when EA Montreal made the original Army of Two, they comissioned a weapons design contest from the fans to include in the game itself.  The winning designs, the SAL-86 and the BST-V1 were included as unlockable content with the original game.

Well now that the sequel is coming closer and closer to release, they’ve announced they’ll be running the very same contest this time around two.  The challenge?  Design EA a weapon that they can include into Army of Two: the 40th Day.  The site includes the usual set of rules and regulations: the weapon must be at least feasible to the current era, be able to be implemented into the game and not include any trademark material.

The parameters are kind of wide open, but if the last game’s winners are anything to go by, they’re not going to be looking for tactical innovations like the double-barrel broadsword launcher.  Which is a pity, I could see Rios taking to one of those.

Peruse the details.  If I could imagine any new weapon that didn’t somehow have a medieval one attached, I’d probably totally enter.  Oooh, I know, the Gunblade!  Wait a second … curse you Final Fantasy!