If you're a fan of 2D fighting games and you don't have BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, for Xbox 360, well, we might just have the cure.
Originally a classic arcade title, the console release is well regarded and should fulfill your need for fighting with combo attacks and even some advanced tactics such as rapid cancels and instant blocks. Plus, there's a story mode and online play.
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 BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger at BusyGamerNews.com, home of the Busy Gamer Podcast: RT + Enter here: http://bit.ly/qnaQqi #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. If you tweet vigorously (more than 5 times a day on average), include the direct link to your tweet and don't delete it!
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 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. Make a change (even a small one) and then 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, October 26 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. 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!).
Thanks for the contest! Would love to play this game.
Twitter: @zombiebash3r
I'm definitely in for this.
Tweeted as @djravenfall
Thanks for the giveaway!
@SneekyBeagle
Sounds neat I'm in.
@SpeckV
Thanks for the contest!
@Gram_Cracker
Thanks for the contest! Would love to have this game for the winter.
Thanks for the giveaway! Looks like a pretty cool game. :)
@Jragon274
I'm in for this one! Tweeted as @wheredabiscuits
Thanks for a chance to win!
@fresh0288
Would love this game. Thanks for the give away.
@WilliamRLBaker
Holy S, I was just getting read the riot act for not playing this yesterday, that's a little creepy, so thanks for the shot.
@El_Ross_M
Thanks for the giveaway! :D
Nice giveaway tweeted the message as PuppetMasterXB
Please enter me to win this. I tweeted this here: https://twitter.com/#!/alee67/status/127413171018412032
Thanks!
very fun game to play!
Never played BlazBlue! Saw it in an arcade once, but it was .75c a play! **** That! Anyway thanks guys :D
@Darklurkr23 RTd
Love the series, awesome game. Thanks BGN.
looks fun!
Got to play BlazBlue at a friends one and had a blast. Would love to win a copy.
Tweeted @argenthorizon
Awesome
@xenoea
I'll take a shot
thanks for the awesome contest! and good luck everyone
twitter: @kmustafa27
In like Flint
@UltimoRey
I love this games art style,count me in! :)
Twitter:Hestar69
Itunes-Hestar
Other entries sound like too much work, this is easy enough though ;).
thank you for the chance to play this fighter
@aznxchunky
Thanks for the giveaway! :D tweeted @iwasb0r3dz
Thanks for the contest! GL to everyone
As usual, thanks for the opportunity.
Tweeted under @NeoHumanity.
In for Win.
@labahotei
Tweeted as nathanoflight
Thanks for the give-away!
Count me in please! Maybe I can make it two in a row... =p
Twitter: @ilRadd
@mysticfail
http://twitter.com/#!/Mysticfail/status/127797882593099776
Rereviewed both (nickname mysticfail)
thanks i hope i win
Thanks for the giveaway :)
@Chronorayven
Thanks for the contest! @staulcub
I love fighting games. Thanks for the chance!
Sweet contest!! Thanks!
tweeted @genxsis83
also re reviewed both
itunes id genxsis83
entered
thanks!
Never tried these out, but why not?
Twitter: DeaVAmp
Good luck everyone.
Thanks!
awesome contest! i would love to win it! i also tweeted about this contest.
Twitter: @n0udles
Contest Tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/n0udles/status/128562569383395329
Awesome! I just got an arcade stick, this game looks great!
Twitter - @spaghetticatt8
thanks
twitter: @daknickerbocker
Thanks guys, here's my comment! I'd definitely love to win BlazBlue! ^_^
Keep the awesome contests coming!
@doubleD215
http://twitter.com/#!/doubleD215/statuses/129240463004794880
Here is my comment...
I would love to win, thanks for having contests!
@Bealzibabe
Thanks 4 the giveaway!
Thanks for the contest! Would love to play this game.
Twitter: @FullMetalWolfe
Nice contest, thank you.
Twitter: @jjohnston77
Thanks for the chance :) The very best of luck to all entrants ^-^
im definately hoping to win this, in preparation for the console release of continuum shift extend, next year also i tweeted
twitter: @tbdcakes
Wow, awesome contest! I'm a huge 2D fighting fan. This looks wicked and I'd love to win!!!
Thanks again,
AT
Would love to give this game a try
@larson_rick
Thanks for the contest!
Twitter: @Andami
The winner is: 46. DrPixel!
Congrats. I've got a big prize planned for when my Gamewatcher Twitter passes and maintains 1500+ followers (hovering around 1490 right now). The best way you can help is to retweet useful items from my Twitter feed!
Anyway, check back on Friday to see what's next!