We've personally attended every West Coast PAX since the first, and we always pick up enough swag to share. But we've never attended the Boston show.
Fortunately for you, our friend and industry insider shinyidol did, and he brought us back some goodies for one lucky winner to enjoy - plus we've added a few bonus items from past PAXes and even a rare Penny Arcade skin set for the GameBoy Advance SP!
Here's what's included (click the image at right to a view a more detailed photo gallery):
- Orcs Must Die! t-shirt and pin set
- Intel "No Camping" t-shirt
- Penny Arcade Cardboard Tube Samurai GBA skin set
- Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception Mystery Skinned Weapon 2 code
- Gears of War 3 Thrashball Cole Plushie avatar item code
- Gears of War sticker
- Star Wars: The Old Republic comic
- The Beatles: Rock Band instrument stickers
- Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars sticker
- Katamari Forever lenticular card
- Skulls of the Shogun game assets disc (trailers, concept art, screenshots)
- Busy Gamer News pin
Here's how to enter and boost your odds with up to 4 chances to win:
- Enter a comment here, as usual. That's all you really NEED to do.
- Tweet the following on Twitter: Win a #PAXEast 2011 Goodie Bag at BusyGamerNews.com, home of the Busy Gamer Podcast: RT + Enter here: http://bit.ly/iawqMx #bgnfsf
- Review (or re-review) our Busy Gamer Podcast on iTunes.
- Review (or re-review) the Best of Busy Gamer Podcast on iTunes. This is a short audio highlights feed with our reviews, audio tours and other timeless bits!
If you do 2, 3 and/or 4 (and why wouldn't you?), you do need to let us know your Twitter/iTunes name(s) in your comment so we can find, verify and include your bonus entries in the drawing and match them up to contact you if one of them wins.
If we can't confirm the bonus entry and easily tell who you are on Twitter and/or iTunes, the bonus entry is disqualified.
You DO have to enter a comment here and follow the other rules to be eligible:
Simply post a comment on this page. (You can do the other things listed above if you want to earn some extra chances to win.) Say whatever is on your mind as long as it's not an ad or profane. Be sure to read the Sweepstakes Rules to ensure you are eligible to win and don't get disqualified by double-posting or forgetting to provide an e-mail address.
NOTE: If you play for extra chances on Twitter or by posting podcast reviews on iTunes, you still have to enter here AND let us know your Twitter and/or iTunes names so we can match you up. iTunes ratings alone do not count since we can't see who posted them, so add or update a comment! If you already posted an iTunes review, you can still update your review once a week for a bonus entry in each week's giveaway. Just log in to iTunes and click Write a Review; it should load your existing review and let you modify it. Check to ensure that it appears on top with the new date or it won't count!
You may also want to white list this domain; we've had MANY would-be winners lose out because they never responded to their prize notification! If you use TypeKey/TypePad, be sure your e-mail address will be shared. No e-mail address, no prize. (Don't worry, no one else will see it - and we'll only use it to contact you if you win.)
Note that unless you're an authenticated poster who has been active on the site and marked as trusted, your comment will NOT appear immediately. It will go into a queue for me to approve, which I'll do several times a day (except the first weekend, where comments may not be approved until sometime late on Sunday). Do NOT double-post. We'll extend the entry period for this until 8:01 p.m. Pacific Time on Wednesday, March 30 to ensure you have plenty of time to enter and verify your entry was posted.
We also sometimes give away unannounced Instant Win prizes and podcast extras. Here are a few tips since this can happen at any time. 1) Follow Gamewatcher on Twitter. Before we post the next Instant Win, we'll give you a fair warning tweet. 2) Subscribe to our RSS feed and set it to check for updates frequently.
We continue to stock up on cool goodies for Free Stuff Friday - and we will keep doing so as long as there's enough response, even if we continue to lose money on this site. So tell your friends about this! Hey, if we get bigger, so will the prizes that YOU could win! While you're at it, post comments wherever you see something interesting. Also, if you get a game code you don't need or have some other cool game-related prize you want to donate, we'd be very grateful (we pay for much of this stuff ourselves!).
that's some cool swag.
Wow all these elite stuff, though I will not win.
Thanks alot for all these weekly giveaways all of you are fantastic.
tweeted as @ropes
Entered! Thank you.
Twitter name: Infinite0112
Cool. Lots of cool stuff. For some reason the Katamari Forever lenticular card catches my eyes the most.
#Winning
Sweet Swag Bag!
tweeted as @NStryke
Sounds really great. I've never owned any swag before, and I've always been envious when I've seen pictures of the mythical entity.
Twitter: @Gram_Cracker
Hey, great giveaway! I'll check out your podcast today. My twitter is Quuids. Thanks, I am looking forward to checking out your site..
I would LOVE to win, also I tweeted as @Admiralvic
Oh Man! I missed PAX East - Hope I win!!!
Thanks for the contest!
Twitter: @eugaet_aux
Very cool stuff!
OMG Gears LOL
SWAG, SWAG.....Gimme gimme
Oo, that's some cool stuff :) Thanks for the chance!
Twitter: @keklar
I would love some swag!
Yes please!
Shane_For_Wax on twitter
Shane_For_Wax on iTunes.
Awesome stuff
@Jaszunai
I wish I could've made it out to Pax East but I had serious medical problems at the time, best of luck to whoever wins
Thanks for doing this contest!
this is an awesome giveaway
Nice OMD schwag.
sign me up thanks!
Everything in there looks awesome, fingers crossed FTW.
Twitter name: BitLooter
Entered!
Twitter: @impigman
Must have Swag!!! Tweeted @archangelreb
I haz tiger blood?
Some awesome swag. Can't wait to go to one of these events for myself. Thanks for the giveaway :D!
Man, I want that Katamari card and those Beatles stickers. I mean, the rest of the stuff is awesome, but that Katamari card is just bitchin.
Anyway, twitter name is @deadbodyman11
cheers for the comp!!
@maidenofhaste
Cool contest, awesome swag bag. Thanks for the opportunity.
In for one... Thanks for the giveaway.
thank you for the chance. i would love to get some of these items.
You guys are awesome. Thanks for the contest.
Huge PA fan. I will throw my entry in on this one comment and twitter entry from my account Touwe
First thing I would win online. Wish me luck!
This is pretty sweet, thanks guys!
Twitter: Lee McKusick
wow pax east swag thanks for the contest
@aznxchunky
Great little bundle of joy there, thank for the shot
Love these Swag bag give aways!
@OnyxPrimal on twitter
OnyxPrimal on Itunes
I really wish i could have gone to pax, Thanks for this contest!
btw tweeted: @SneekyBeagle
Very nice stuff! Thanks for running the promotion, I'll be sure to check out the rest of your site.
Thanks for another great giveaway!
Tweeted @BossVersion1
cool stuff in there hope i win
Good luck to everyone!
Entered, thanks for the opportunity. Fingers crossed!
I tweeted as @hsith
Yay swag! I'll delve into the rest of your site now. I came here from the Robot Entertainment Twitter account btw...
in for the schwag.
thanks as per usual, guys.
Sorry I haven't been participating as much lately. New addition to the fam (2nd daughter).
Twitter is @teujip
I would love to win this! Thanks a bunch for giving us a chance to win!
Twitter: Revixe06
Great prizes this time, thanks for the opportunity. =)
I was there and miss that swag. Posted on Twitter too. Lord_Moon
Nice selection. I'm in, please.
Well here goes nothing! That is indeed some awesome swag.
I'm in for the giveaway and retweeting
Thanks for the contest, makes me wish I had gone to PAX
Hooray for swag!
I hope I win, thanks for the contest!
Orcs must die! Heehee...Swag is always awesome, yours more so than most!
Great contest! Like the Gears swag
The winner is: 43. BossVersion1
Congrats!
We haven't had a DS giveaway in awhile... Hm. Check back Friday!