360voice Dev Blog

Old Spice prize claim reminder!

If you won any Old Spice Gamerscore Challenges at 360voice, your last day to submit a prize claim is fast approaching. From the official rules:

HERE’S HOW TO CLAIM A REWARD:  If you are the winner of a challenge, you will receive an email notification containing your reward claim code within approximately 12 hours of completion of the challenge.  To claim your reward, click on the link contained in the email and follow the onscreen instructions to input your reward claim code and complete the online claim form.  All reward claims must be  received by 2:00:00 PM PST on 3/28/08.   Certain rewards may be fulfilled via email.  Please allow 6-8 weeks for delivery of your reward.

So please, if you have not received a claim code, email support and we can resend it! Get your prizes claimed!

Xbox 360 Content Creation Challenge presented by Nokia.

360voice is proud to be be a partner with Disruptive Publishers in the Xbox 360 Content Creation Challenge presented by Nokia!

If you have been saying, "Wow... I can create a better dashboard theme than that!" well, here is your chance! Create your theme... the community will vote on the best one. The winner gets all sorts of great stuff! (prizes, fame, fortune, etc.)

The official press release (PDF)

Here is how it will work. Read this!

1. Visit www.my360theme.com to participate in the Xbox 360 Content Creation Challenge presented by Nokia.
2. Register to submit themes as well as to vote (registration is free). Make sure you affiliate your self with 360voice!!
3. Upon registration, you will find detailed instructions and a content template.
4. Once material has been created to the proper specs, upload it!
5. After review, the content will appear in the community gallery.
6. The community votes to determine top content.
7. At the end of the contest period, the winning entries will be published to Xbox LIVE Marketplace, with the top overall theme (based on # of votes) receiving a grand prize package (HDTV home theater, games) plus a publishing contract with DP!
8. In addition, the community (360voice!) with the highest score will receive additional prizes that we can give away to you all!

So head over there... sign up... create themes... start voting! Not only are you all individually competing to have your theme posted to Xbox Live, but we are up against some other great communities to see who can bring home the trophy of most active community! Here are the other partners:

1. 360style.net
2. 360sync
3. Evil Avatar
4. Hawty McBloggy
5. Platform Nation
6. The10k.com
7. Unscripted 360
8. Xbox Addict

This should be a lot of fun. Make sure you check out the Community Showcase forum. I have stickied a thread for people to post about the themes they have created. So go make some themes!

More More More Winners!

Three down, one to go. That's right, the third week of Challenge Month flew by, and we have more lucky winners to announce!

Lets run down the daily point winners,

2/15: Casarella
2/16: k0mm1ssar
2/17: JohnnyDrama814
2/18: prot0typeNXT
2/19: dieselv2
2/20: Denity
2/21: dancinns

Each of those folks will be netting a cool 1000 Microsoft points for just being in challenges!  Next up is our personal pick, this week we were looking for good sportsmanship.   I decided to actually pick two winners this week:

shredder46 - In Challenge Auto Challenge - #254
FieldersChoice - In Challenge Auto Challenge - #255

They were both in an auto challenge together, and it was a pretty close neck and neck battle.  shredder46 won graciously, but he also made it a point to stop by the Fielders next auto challenge and wish him luck.  Both members showed great sportsmanship.  This is how we always envisioned challenges to be, a great way to possibly make friends, or cheer each other on in the gamerscore race that we do everyday, congrats to both.

Finally the big winner of the week... we randomly picked one name out of everyone that participated in a challenge this week to take home a customized Zune 80!  And that person is...

TonySama!
(YAAAAAY!  CONGRATS!!!)

If you didn't win this week, we are still doing daily point drawings, and there is 1 more Zune 80 to give away.  So either start, join or sign up for Auto challenges to be eligible!  If you did win, we will be sending all prizes at the end of the month!

Thanks for participating everyone!

The second week of February winners!

The second week of Challenge Month is officially spent, and we have more lucky winners to announce!

And first we have the daily point drawing winners:

2/8: Cataleet
2/9: CaptainNintendo
2/10: CodeSe7en
2/11: One Crazy Idiot
2/12: TxTehAdz
2/13: guitarfreak1982
2/14: Bojangles91W2P

Each of those folks will be netting a cool 1000 Microsoft points for just being in challenges!  Next up is our personal pick, this week we went purely on numbers and picked the person who had the most points in one challenge and did not win.  Out of the challenges ending that week it was:

dzstarr6668 - In Challenge Couch Battle

He managed to net over 16,000 points, but just couldn't move into 1st. For this he at least takes home a 360voice.com T-shirt.

Finally the big winner of the week... we randomly picked one name out of everyone that participated in a challenge this week to take home a customized Zune 80!  And that person is...

Samphis!
(I hope you like friggin rad gadgets!)

If you didn't win this week, we are still doing daily point drawings, and there are 2 more Zune 80 to give away.  So either start, join or sign up for Autochallenges to be eligible!

Thanks for participating everyone, it continues to be rockin!

First Week of February Winners!

All right we have burned through the first week of Challenge Month, and have lots of winners to announce!

First off, the daily point drawing winners are:

2/1: culin23
2/2: LIBERT4D
2/3: misere
2/4: Rigadaby
2/5: TheLastDon
2/6: H2O Zax
2/7: JACK O BLADES

Each of those folks will be netting a cool 1000 Microsoft points for just being in challenges!  Next up is our personal pick for good sportsmanship of the week:

jedi8955 - In Challenge Gamerscore Ballas

We blogged about it before this week, but he gained over 11,000 points in a 30 day challenge, and ending up losing by 2 points!  For his efforts and good sportsmanship he nets a 360voice.com T-shirt.

Finally the big winner of the week... we randomly picked one name out of everyone that participated in a challenge this week to take home a customized Zune 80!  And that person is...

Tha MasterCheif!
(OOOOOOOOOO! AHHHHHHHHHH!)

If you didn't win this week, we are still doing daily point drawings, and there are 3 more Zune 80 to give away.  So either start, join or sign up for Autochallenges to be eligible!

Thanks for participating everyone, it's been a lot of fun.

February is challenge month!

We are officially declaring February at 360voice, Old Spice Experience Challenge Month! We will be giving away special prizes every day for the ENTIRE month of February!

You have to be a FULL Member to participate, so register/upgrade today!

These prizes are available to both US and International 360voice gamers! Check it out:

Daily Microsoft Point Giveaways
Each day in February we will give away 1,000 points to a random person in an active challenge. This is available to both reward challenges AND bragging rights challenges. So if you are international and can't compete for prizes, just BE IN A CHALLENGE and you get a shot at 1,000 points every single day in Feb. That is a total of 29,000 points! (you can win only once)

Weekly Customized Zune (80 Gig) giveaways
Each Friday in February (starting Feb 8 2008), we will give way a Zune (80 Gig) customized with the winner's gamertag.  This is available to both reward challenges AND bragging rights challenges. If you are international (and the Zune is not available in your country), you will receive an equal value gift card. (you can win only once)

T-Shirt Giveaways
In Addition to our random drawings each week we will feature a gamer in a challenge to spotlight, and in turn they will win a customized 360voice.com T-shirt. Winners will be hand picked by 360voice.com admins, and qualifications will vary week to week.  Good sportsmanship and friendly banter always help!

So there go! February is the month of challenges! Tell your friends! Let's kick it up a notch!

ZeroDesolation grabs Ace Combat Gear!

Congrats to ZeroDesolation who wins the Ace Combat T-Shirt and Hat for leaving a comment on a blog this week. We had over 1100 comments during the short window, pretty impressive! Sorry we couldn't award all of you. Keep the comments coming for more chances to win, the new contest will be posted shortly.

Leave Comments Win AC6 SWAG

Okay this week's contest is ready, and now you can win some Ace Combat 6 swag!  The winner will net a Ace Combat T-shirt and hat from the fine folks at Namco.

If you haven't played Ace Combat 6 yet, I suggest you check it out. If you are a fan of the series, I think this is one of the best I have played. If you are new to the series, this is a great introduction. I just finished single player, and I had a blast. I really liked the ability to pick what objectives to choose in the missions, and the game was action packed. There are some pretty epic battles (I can't share without spoilers), but the difficulty and length felt just right. It's good to see the Xbox getting some new series, and some different types of games, so lets support it!  (Sorry for the ugly pic, I am having camera issues)

The Rules

1. All you have to do to be eligible is post a comment to ANY Xbox blog on this site. It doesn't have to be mine. To leave a comment, find any xbox blog with comments enabled and use the comment form under any blog entry. You can always find some blogs with comments by looking in the Top 20 Most Popular List on the 360voice homepage. Anyone with a star (*) next to their name has comments on.

2. When posting a comment on an xbox blog, you have to use your GAMERTAG in the name field... otherwise, I won't know how to track you down. If you use someone elses gamertag, they will win! So don't do that unless you want them to. :)

3. You DO NOT need to be a member of 360voice to leave a comment. Anyone can leave a comment on an Xbox blog so anyone is eligible.

4. I will private messageg you via Xbox live to let you know you won and you can provide your mailing info. If you have a 360voice account, you will also get the Contest Winner badge!!

5. It DOES NOT matter how many comments you leave. Each tag is counted only once... so don't spam the comments.

6.  Only comments posted between 12:01AM (PST) 11/20/2007 and 11:59PM (PST) 11/25/2007 will be eligible.

That's it! Easy enough right? And you get to participate on the site at the same time! Everybody wins yay!  For more information on the AceCombat 6 check out the official site.

More Contest Winners!

Congrats to IrishPauly and TX Eegras who will both be receiving SpeedFreek controller accessories!  They were selected out of the approximately 200 folks who left over 500 comments this weekend.  This week's contest will be posted tomorrow.