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Written by Jim Rossignol on November 27, 2008 at 2:56 pm.
Not all our competitions are for UK readers, honest. But this one is: it’s timed to coincide with the UK release of two strategy game bundles, the majestic Imperium Romanum Gold and the trans-solar excellence of Galactic Civilizations Ultimate Edition. You can win both! For details on what other goodies you can win, as well as how to enter, head linkwards.
So this is what you can win:
1st Prize: Graphics Card plus a copy of Imperium Romanum Gold and Galactic Civilizations Ultimate Edition.
2nd Prize: Posh headset plus a copy of Imperium Romanum Gold and Galactic Civilizations Ultimate Edition
3rd Prize: Copy of Imperium Romanum Gold and Galactic Civilizations Ultimate Edition
Here is how to win:
To win you must send an email to this address. In it you MUST (MUST!) include your UK mailing address (just in case you win) and complete the following sentence:
I am the Inevitable Space Emperor of the Universe and my first command to all loyal subjects is to…
The best sentence completion (at our discretion) will be gifted with these incredible prizes.
Answers by the 15st of December please!
(Both these games are on Steam and Direct2Drive, and I’m personally giving swollen thumbs up to GalCiv, which is proper awesome, and should be played by all. Imperium Romanum looks ace if you like a bit of Roman action too, but I’ve not played that. Anyone familiar with it?)
And finally, previous compo winners for The Political Machine comp are M. Papadopoulos, Daniel James and Simon Dethridge. The sponsors should be in touch soon to sort your prizes out.
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- Galactic Civilizationier!
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Ian says:
“M. Papadopoulos, Daniel James and Simon Dethridge”
Who are these people and why are they hiding behind their legal birth-names rather than their true, RPS names? *shakes fist*
Anyway, I shall enter and once again fail to be pithy and amusing.
November 27th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
cullnean says:
my answer is both obvious and cheesy!
November 27th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
roryok says:
is this open to us potato eating irishmen?
November 27th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Duoae says:
I’d like that AGP card if no one else wants it! :D
Entered!
November 27th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
FernandoDANTE says:
Fuck yeah, I still use AGP. But I live in BRAZIL, so I can’t win your contest. UNFAIR!!!!
Why make a contest for a bunch of spoiled brits who are whining about the prize being AGP?
I am the Inevitable Space Emperor of the Universe and my first command to all loyal subjects is to MAKE ALL COMPETITIONS AVAILABLE FOR NON-UK READERS!!!
November 27th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Noc says:
Exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point, one one one exclamation point, oh en ee.
November 27th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
fulis says:
Bah competitions
I never got my PCG pin badge that I won in issue 115
November 27th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Super Bladesman says:
I really need a new graphics card :(
Hmm, what to write…
November 27th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Cross Road says:
…rrid.
November 27th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Ian says:
@ Cross Road:
I actually laughed at that and wish I hadn’t.
November 27th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Noc: I’m massively excited about typing up competitions. I think that comes across nicely.
Irishmen: yes.
November 27th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
FernandoDANTE says:
Open to Ireland and not Brazil? Bullshit.
November 27th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Ian says:
@ FernandoDANTE: Would you like a mug of cocoa? Or a hug? :)
November 27th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Sentzy says:
I am the Inevitable Space Emperor of the Universe and my first command to all loyal subjects is to…
… STARTLE THE WITCH!
November 27th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Ceremony says:
He has the fiery Latin temper
November 27th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
FernandoDANTE says:
Both cocoa and hugs are very good things. Thanks.
Unfortunately, hugs and cocoa can not be sent over the mail. However, a fancy headphone or a nice graphics card can be sent over the mail.
November 27th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Ian says:
I’ll give you the mailing hugs thing, but you could mail cocoa.
Admittedly, you’d need a sturdy flask or it’d be a very messy affair.
November 27th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
FernandoDANTE says:
Thermal isolation would be the REAL issue.
November 27th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Tei says:
I have a Welkin 4591 account (and I don’t speak ZH ), and a mixmail adrres ( teilaxu@mixmail.com) (and I don’t speak DE )… so has to be easy to get a whatever@co.uk account.. I just need to talk UK. And that has to be easy.. how is it? you have to say colour and not color, and crazy stuff like that. EAASSY!!
November 27th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Ian says:
You have to tell us where the invisible ‘p’ goes in colour.
November 27th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
RichPowers says:
Grrrrr, the UK always gets the best PC game compilations at retail: GalCivII complete, Civ IV complete, Age of Mythology complete (you can find this game everywhere in the States, but it doesn’t include the expansion…)
*shakes fist*
November 27th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Duoae says:
Yeah, Rich, but that’s offset by the fact that we tend to get every game release days and months after you guys and even then not all of them are released. I’d feel sorry for the Americans if they actually had more of a problem than they get everything cheaper than us (for no good reason – and don’t quote tax!) and that they don’t always get the good Japanese game imports/conversions.
I really feel sorry for people in South America, Australia and the Asias…. they’re even worse off than us Brits/Europeans.
@Ian, everyone knows there’s no invisible ‘p’ in colour, however the unpronounced phth is another matter…. :)
November 27th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Tei says:
OFF-TOPIC (sorry!)
@Ian: the invisible p is like FFC0CB00
Invisible Papaya Whip #FFEFD500
Invisible Peach Puff #FFDAB900
Invisible Peru #CD853F00
Invisible Pink #FFC0CB00
Invisible Plum #DDA0DD00
Invisible Powder Blue #B0E0E600
Invisible Purple #80008000
thats RGBA.
November 27th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Cross Road says:
Tei – they mean they want a UK postal address. They also only accept people who trust them to never sell this site on to anyone who realises they have a targeted junk mailer goldmine and who also won’t call them on their lack of a published privacy policy or the fact that they are almost certainly violating the data protection act.
November 27th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Saflo says:
Age of Mythology complete (you can find this game everywhere in the States, but it doesn’t include the expansion…)
I think they finally released a complete version. I never picked up the expansion myself since it still cost twenty goddamn dollars five years after it came out.
November 27th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
FernandoDANTE says:
Seriously, WTF do South Americans get?
November 27th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Pace says:
Some rather terrifying spiders, from what I understand.
November 27th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
@ Cross Road: I should have linked to the usual compo rules. That contains our data-handling statement.
November 27th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Dizet Sma says:
FernandoDANTE says:
Seriously, WTF do South Americans get?”
Coups and Juntas with a few World Cups thrown in?
November 27th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
FernandoDANTE says:
I care more about awesome headphones than I do about football (as the lovely British people call it).
November 27th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Duoae says:
(as the lovely British people call it). Considering it’s the first game to be internationally named football it’s the only name it goes by – anything else is a fallacy or retcon…. and neither are recognised in the world of true sports.
I do bite my tongue, sir.
November 28th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Duoae says:
Or my thumb – damn stupid memory failing me when it’s important not to on a non-editable forum :)
November 28th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Rushe says:
Any news about the WAR compo? :)
November 28th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Ian says:
Actually I’m fairly certain “soccer” is also a British word.
November 28th, 2008 at 8:48 am
AbyssUK says:
I’d like to find out some of the winning entries to the last compos i bet there good for a laugh
November 28th, 2008 at 9:44 am
AbyssUK says:
Also RPS, please stop capitalising everyword in your titles am sure thats not right for a British publication…
November 28th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Tei says:
Big spiders?,.. I think thats australia.
November 28th, 2008 at 11:58 am
FernandoDANTE says:
We have big spiders too. Though I’ve never actually seen one in front of me (with the exception of a dead one at a science exhibit).
So…headphones?
November 28th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Paul Moloney says:
“Irishmen: yes.”
Hurrah! I suppose that makes up for stealing all our potatoes. A bit.
P.
November 28th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
jalf says:
What?
And here I thought it was a chance to win a game featuring romans and space aliens! And then it turns out to be either a game with romans or another with space aliens… I am disappointed and disillusioned! (Mostly because I already have Galciv, and as awesome as romans in space would be, romans in roman times is soooo last trimillenium.)
November 28th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
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You’ve got an AGP video card? What, they can’t give the thing away so they thought it would work as a compo prize?
Apologies if I’m being harsh. I love you guys, really.
November 27th, 2008 at 3:03 pm