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Beowulf

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The latest in the marketing campaigns by World of Warcraft for others, the upcoming movie, Beowulf:

We are happy to announce our latest contest, Legendary Tales, inspired by the upcoming Paramount Pictures movie Beowulf. In the style of a graphic novel, tell us your story of overcoming a seemingly insurmountable foe in World of Warcraft. Simply create and submit a screenshot-based photo journal of your in-game exploits, and you could win! Whether you held off the fel orcs of Hellfire Citadel or overcame the chicken scourge of Goldshire, your story should dazzle and amaze.

Five winners will be chosen to receive a one-year subscription to World of Warcraft!

(WoW page for submissions and other details.)

Which sounds lovely, but I doubt very much that this contest was “inspired” by Beowulf, but rather was *paid* by Beowulf. There is a difference.

And I think it would be nice if we just called it like it is instead of pretending the Blizz dudes were “inspired” to create a Beowulf-like contest because it seems like a really cool movie.

Azeroth Exposed

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Intel and YouTube are sponsoring a video contest of the funniest moments in World of Warcraft. Submissions are accepted beginning March 1, 2007 through March 21, 2007; voting takes place April 1, 2007 through April 15, 2007; and the winner will be announced on April 26th. The winner will receive “… an unbelievable gaming rig powered by the new Intel® Coreâ„¢2 Extreme quad-core processor.” (Link to contest page)

Nice production values on the Intel teaser vid, UNFORTUNATELY, his name is spelled Nefarian, not Nefarion.

Common noob mistake, mrmintel, don’t beat yourself up over it.

(UPDATE: The embedded player may not appear at times thanks to the 8 million WoW locusts chewing up YouTube resources. The contest trailer can always be viewed on the contest page linked above.)

Warcraft Test Realm Contests

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Blizzard is running the latest edition of the Warcraft Public Test Realm at its new data center — ” … the more people playing on them, the better” — although with 5000+ player queues, mostly they’re testing player tenacity. To ensure overbooking participation on the test realms, there are contest realms available for play. The contest realms opened today and will shut down on March 27th. There are three catass competitions, bla bla bla, winners get to beta test the someday-we-promise Burning Crusade expansion, bla bla bla, few thousand winners will be chosen, bla bla bla, the contests are: fastest characters to level 50, highest honor totals earned in Warsong Gulch, and most characters leveled to level 25. Yawn. Here’s three contests with more imagination that require more player skill: most times logged in without hitting a queue, most instances completed without a server crash and highest real-life-cash bid on a Burning Crusade beta position. (Because CMON, we all know that’s how this story is going to end.)