Alas, this one contest is for Press Start Studio.

The folks over at computerandvideogames.com have nominated Twin Blades into several categories for the 28th Golden Joystick Awards!
Votes are user-based, and I was told people with bad karma problems could redeem of few good points by voting for Twin Blades in the Portable, Downloadable and Ultimate Game of the Year categories.

Voting is open until may 27th and no registration is needed.

Now whether or not they actually are giving winners a gold-plated joystick and, most importantly, whether said joystick would feature Japanese components remains unknown.

KidKobun even made us this nice looking mockup of where you can vote for Twin Blades, and because his mockup features much better-looking arrows than mine it is showcased below.

We have passed the point where Twin Blades has become profitable (which sounds like a delectable dessert to our ears).
So we’ve got this big bag of money right now and being a big bunch of nerds we had no idea what to do with it, so we made a quick vote and unanimously decided to spend it all on custom t-shirts.

And because we have too many of these classy t-shirts, we thought we should give them away to our most dedicated fans. But we’re not going to throw them away randomly, or else where would the feeling of achievement be in that? How could you unsuspiciously parade in the streets with your PSS t-shirt and swell with pride in society without emanating the subtle odor of own sweat?

We’ve noticed Twin Blades had its fans and we like that, a lot. But further than that we’ve also noticed how some of these fans take initiatives to actively participate in the promotion of the game. And we want to reward those active fans, and we want to equip them with the best gear the world has to offer so they can beat the crap out of the other games’ fans.

Thus, we collectively decided that Phil should sacrifice the unique custom Twin Blades joystick he crafted out of a Xbox 360 pad and equipped with full Sanwa/Seimitsu japanese parts, and give it to our best uberfan.

Well that’s interesting, now how exactly do I become an uberfan so I can beat the crap out of other games’ fans with a unique joystick in a cool t-shirt? you ask. And the good news is we haven’t set any boundaries for that. All you need to do is promote Twin Blades in any way of your choosing and send us a picture or whatever you did at uberfan@press-start-studio.com before the 30th of may to enter the contest!

Get involved, do it your way! You could either tell about the game and how much you’ve liked it on your favorite forum like Gamer_Kyio did on IGN, or send a message to your daily game news blog to incite them to update their review with the DLC, or draw some fan art like Aphex did with the nun (along with a completely NSFW version), or send a tip to any website you think would like the game like KidKobun did with Mtv, or use your own prose to post a review of on the app store, possibilities are endless, creativity is all yours!

Well Aldex -the winner of our Beat Mako and get reward for it contest- has received his prize and was kind enough to supply us with a picture of it, featuring the canvas, Aldex, his most precious tie and his nicest pecs.

So in turn we’d like to supply him with a picture of the defeated vilain, featuring Mako, his eternal hat and his nicest week-old beard.

With his insolent grin of awesomeness gone everything is at its place, and we’ll be ready to shed some more details about the Twin Blades update at the end of this week!

The contest is over, and we have drawn the winner thanks to a very complex algorithm (Mako’s 3 years old daughter picked a name from a hat).

I hope you’ll enjoy the subtle cruelty of the process as much as I do. In essence it gives “Beat Mako and get rewarded for it…BY HIS OWN DAUGHTER”

We’ve been very impressed by your performances, some of you went as far as to break the 4.5 million mark – a 4x fold to our concept artist’s ridicule 1.1 mil. You all pwned him good.

And the winner is…

Congratulations Aldex! We’ll get in touch with you shortly.

And to all of you whose name wasn’t drawn rejoice, for we have other sweet stuff coming along – stay tuned for more very soon!

When you create a video game there is always a time where you are a bit nostalgic its going public because you are about to lose the 1st spot on the leaderboard.

Its like surrendering sovereignty of your own game to people who will have no remorse getting better at it than you and beat the bloody high score you thought would be forever engraved in e-stone to mark your supremacy as The Creator.

Mako our concept artist was so fanatic about being the first of us to unlock all the achievements that we thought of a nice way to humble the radiant grin of awesomeness he has been insolently exhibiting these last few days.

We call it on you guys for this contest: Beat Mako’s 1 084 520 points highscore in Twin Blades: The Reaping Vanguard until the 25th of december, upload it to the online Open Feint leaderboard and send us an email at info@press-start-studio.com stating your OpenFeint ID. We will then randomly select one winner among those to receive a 40″ canvas of a game’s artwork dedicated by the whole crew!