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Seattle PAX 2009 – Come get some gamerDNA Swag!
The biggest consumer game show in North America known as Penny Arcade Expo is this weekend, and we’re very excited about it! Seattle PAX this year looks like it will be a lot of fun, and we’ll be there at the show!
GamerDNA’s Community Manager, Sam Houston (that’s me!) will be at PAX all weekend and he will even have some gamerDNA swag to give away. Sam will be at the show wearing a gamerDNA shirt, so he should be fairly easy to spot. Here’s a picture to help you out:
Sam is on a panel on Saturday at 1:30pm at the Unicorn Theatre, and we would love to see you there. A special bonus for attending will be receiving a gamerDNA Sticker, which Sam is handing out after the panel. Here is the description of the panel:
Saturday, 1:30pm – 2:30pm, Unicorn TheatreTwitter and Beyond – New Game Communities Online
Online game communities are changing rapidly as social media is being used more and more by gamers. No longer are people primarily congregating on official game forums. They’re talking with each other on Twitter, Facebook, and in other types of online communities about games. For this reason, Community Managers are actively leveraging social media tools to keep online communities informed and engaged with their games. This panel will discuss the exciting transition of game companies using social media to build, communicate with, and engage with players as well as highlight the macro-trends that impact all online communities. Panelists include executives from both the game development and social media side of the fence.Panelists Include: Michelle Broderick [Moderator] – (Marketing Director and Community Manager, Yelp.com), Morgan Romine (Fragdoll Team Captain, Ubisoft), Jaap Tuinman (Director of Social, Community, & Online Marketing, EA), Sam Houston (Online Marketing Manager, GamerDNA), Meghan Rodberg (Senior Manager of Online Community Relations, Turbine)
If you see Sam outside of the panel make sure you “hey” when you see him. He will be giving out gamerDNA stickers all weekend to community members, and it would be great to meet members of the community! Here are the new gamerDNA stickers:
I hope to see you at the show, it should be a lot of fun!
gamerDNA Community Manager
Tales of a Summer Internship at gamerDNA
Editor’s Note: This blog post is written by Adam Krebs, gamerDNA’s Summer Intern who helped out with all of our data input goodness. We salute Adam as he sails off to college and we wish him luck!
As GamerDNA’s summer data intern, I had the all-important job of keeping the game data up-to-date and the traits on topic while the guys on the product team built the cool new features of the site. I had a lot of fun and learned a great deal, and got to help out with this website we all know and love. My first day happened to coincide with the opening day of E3 and the launch of TweetMyGaming. In fact, one of my first assignments was to live-add the games to GamerDNA and TMG as they were announced. It was especially cool to watch the tweets fly by showing how excited people were about Metroid: Other M just moments after it was demoed on stage.
In a WoW Guild on gamerDNA? You could get free custom guild apparel!
In our continuing quest to make sure that gamers are well prepared for long hours with the Lich King, gamerDNA and Swag Dog have teamed up to offer gamerDNA guild leaders a chance to grab a customizable guild t-shirt from Swag Dog. Of course, the apparel is fully licensed from Blizzard. Keep reading for more details
Play World of Warcraft, win Razer Gear!
Hey guys, I’m sure every World of Warcraft fan is waiting with bated breath for the release of the hotly anticipated World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King expansion pack, which is why we here at gamerDNA are getting together with Razer™ to offer some gear that’s sure to ensure that you’re ready to take on the ruler of Northrend.
Here’s what we’re offering to you:
One Grand Prize Pack, featuring a complete Razer desktop set that includes:
- A Razer DeathAdder™ mouse, with an 1800dpi sensor for precise control
- A Razer Lycosa™ keyboard, with fully programmable keys for macro creation
- A Razer Destructor™ mousepad, optimized for gaming grade mice
- A Razer Piranha™, with pristine sound quality and comfort for the long hours in voice chat
In addition to the grand prize, we’re also offering five Razer DeathAdder™ mice to winners who didn’t get a chance to nab the grand prize!
Now, onto the big question – How do I enter?
Well, most likely, you already have! Here’s the deal -
First, you have to make sure you’ve got an account on gamerDNA.
Next, between now and the end of the contest -Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - you can enter by performing one of the following tasks:
- Adding your World of Warcraft character to your gamerDNA – your character on gamerDNA will automatically update as you climb to level 80!
- Adding an image and associating it with World of Warcraft – show off your new gear or just prove to the world that your guild just accomplished the impossible – anything goes as long as it’s World of Warcraft! (Note that only one image entered during the duration of the contest will count as an entry).
- Adding a World of Warcraft experience – tell the world about your favorite World of Warcraft memories.
- Playing the Game! As long as you have your Xfire ID listed as an AKA – you can enter the contest by simply playing WoW!
You can have a maximum of three entries, so get to it!
We’ll announce the winners on Monday, December 1st – make sure you keep an eye on your private messages, we’ll be contacting you through there.
Just to clarify – you don’t need the expansion to enter, but if you’re a serious WoW player, you’re probably going to get it anyway!
Also, please note that the contest is limited to North America.
gamerDNA Fallout 3 contest
This week brings the long awaited launch of Fallout 3 and gamerDNA would like to celebrate this fantastic game with a contest for some game swag. The Grand Prize winner will win:
1- Large Fallout 3 T-Shirt
1- Fallout 3 Survival Guide (only available at PAX!)
3- Vault Boy Stickers
To participate in this contest, all you need to do is add Fallout 3 to your profile, upload Fallout 3 screenshots, enter a Fallout 3 experience entry,or play Fallout 3 via Xfire, Steam or Xbox Live.
To participate in this contest, all you need to do is:
- Register for a gamerDNA account
- Play Fallout 3 while signed in to Xbox Live, Steam or Xfire between October 31st 12:00am PST and November 7th 11:59pm PST. It doesn’t matter how long you play, just play at least one time to be entered.
- Anyone who is already a gamerDNA member who plays Fallout 3 during that time period is automatically entered.
- Upload Fallout 3 screenshots, add Fallout 3 to your profile, or enter a Fallout 3 experience entry
- You must be at least 18 years old and live in the United States.
- Contest winner will be chosen at random and notified via gamerDNA private message.
Do all this between October 31st 12:00am PST and November 7th 11:59pm PST and you could be a winner!
Good Luck!
gamerDNA Build Night – Tonight!
As you guys may know, every Monday the intrepid team here at gamerDNA puts on their coding hats and sprints to close out bugs, tweak functionality, and add new features to the site in the form of our weekly builds. Well, this week we’ll be switching things up a bit and hosting our first Build Night so that while the development team reaches the finish line and puts the site down, the gamerDNA community is invited to join Team gamerDNA in a frag festival that only long hours of coding can fuel!
We’ll be using the gamerDNA IRC channel as a staging area, and the party officially starts at 4:00 PM EDT and runs until whenever the build goes up!
While you’re at it, why not check out the gamerDNA Steam Community?
The server information is in the graphic below – we’ll see you there!
gamerDNA Spotlight – Recruitment Reels
Everyone knows that the backbone of any good group, clan, or guild is the recruitment process. Without a steady flow of new applicants, your group may be missing out!
One of the most inventive ways to invite recruitment is to create a video! Like the great propoganda videos of yester-year today’s modern artists use moving pictures to motivate, inspire, and recruit.
Up first we have a video from gamerDNA clan Blackwater ArmA, a clan that plays the highly realistic military shooter, ArmA (Armed Assault):
Sometimes, people want to use a show of their skills a simple, but effective recruitment strategy – just as the Call of Duty 4 clan, TCAA, has done with this video (it really is just 9 minutes of gameplay):
Got something that you think should spotlighted? Let us know!
The Winners of gamerDNA’s week of Warhammer
Did you think we would forget about you? Nope! The results are in and the winners of gamerDNA’s week of Warhammer has been chosen. Five randomly selected Warhammer Online players were selected based off of the entry criteria that we outlined in our earlier blog post. So, without further ado, here are our winners:
Congratulations, guys! The winners have already been contacted, but if you have any questions feel free to PM me! If you didn’t make the cut, you can still feel like a winner by giving yourself a Warhammer Online Signature or trying your hand at our Warhammer Character API!
Thanks again to everyone who participated and keep an eye on the gamerDNA blog for more contests coming soon!
