For this week's installment of the weekly Crave giveaway, we've got a little something for all you folks who like to game a lot--or have to sit all day in front of a computer screen: the new stylin' Gunnar Optiks MLG Legend digital performance glasses, which are designed to reduce eye fatigue and increase visual performance.
CNETTV's Mark Licea, who spends a lot of time editing video here at CNET when he's not doing The Green Show, has a different pair of Gunnar glasses, and swears by them. So does pro gamer Mason Neighbor Cobb, who provided design input to the Gunnar team, like making sure the glasses work well with headsets (the Legend line is adorned with the Major League Gaming logo).
Normally, the Gunnar MLG Legend glasses would cost about $100, but you have the chance to get a pair gratis.
So, how do you try to win these Gunnars? Let me enumerate the basic rules. Please read them carefully; there will be a test.
- Register as a CNET user. Go to the top of this page and hit the "Join CNET" link to start the registration process. If you're already registered, no need to register again.
- Leave a comment below. You can leave whatever comment you want. If it's funny or insightful it won't help you win, but we're trying to have fun here, so anything entertaining is appreciated.
- Leave only one comment. You may enter this specific giveaway only once. If you enter more than one comment, you will be automatically disqualified.
- The winner will be chosen randomly. The winner will receive (1) Pair of Gunnar Optiks MLG Legend glasses. Approximate retail value is $100.
- If you are chosen, you will be notified via e-mail. Winners must respond within three days of the end of the contest. If you do not respond within that period, another winner will be chosen.
- Entries can be submitted until Monday, October 19, at noon EDT.
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. MUST BE LEGAL RESIDENT OF ONE OF THE 50 UNITED STATES OR D.C., 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER AT DATE OF ENTRY INTO SWEEPSTAKES. VOID IN PUERTO RICO, ALL U.S. TERRITORIES AND POSSESSIONS AND WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. Sweepstakes ends at 12 PM ET on October 19, 2009. See official rules for details.
Good luck.
"MLE: The Game"
(Credit: MLE: The Game)Who says huge global companies don't have a sense of humor? In the same week that Nintendo releases the highly anticipated Wii Fit, they tip the scales in the other direction with the promotion of Major League Eating: The Game. As an officially licensed title by the top league (hopefully the only league) in speed eating, well-recognized stars such as Joey Chestnut or Takeru Kobayashi will be playable characters. The WiiWare title is touted as a fighting game that "requires players to master a smorgasbord of offensive and defensive weapons including bites, burps, belches, mustard gas, and jalapeno flames while cramming and chewing food at a world-class pace." How convenient that the Wii Fit looks like a scale, because you're going to need it.
However, Nintendo is not stopping at the physical activity of the Wii Fit or the digital gluttony of MLE: The Game to help shape our health and eating habits.
Nintendo just announced that they will be releasing Cooking Guide: Can't Decide What to Eat? throughout Europe in June. The coming title for the Nintendo DS promises to "literally talk budding chefs step-by-step through all the processes involved in cooking a tasty dish." Featuring interaction through the DS's microphone, aspiring chefs will be able to talk with the Cooking Guide chef to work their way through any of the 250 included recipes. And then actually eat them in the real world.
With at least two of these new releases, Nintendo has moved well beyond the so-called casual gamer market. (It's anyone's guess who the eating game is for.) With the instant popularity of the Wii Fit and the coming foray into the kitchen, it is apparent that Nintendo is well positioned to break away from any gamer market and integrate their products into our daily lives.
Earlier today, competitive eater Tim Janus (aka "Eater X") made a guest appearance at the Nintendo Media summit in downtown San Francisco to show off his prowess eating Sushi rolls. Nintendo's public relations had put together a "guess how many jelly beans are in the jar" situation by making attendees estimate the number of sushi rolls Janus would be consuming within a six minute time frame to promote Mastif-Games' new title Major League Eating: The Game of which Janus appears as a playable character.
To everyone's surprise, Janus managed to wolf down 14 plates of sushi, totaling 141 pieces, each about the size of a roll of film. The winning guesstimater received $250 in cash while Janus casually sipped some lemonade and played a few rounds of the game with onlookers, including myself who barely managed to take him out in a meatball battle (an event Janus has never won in real life).
The event was timed and sanctioned by Major League Eating to count as an official record for Janus. Janus is the record holder for ramen noodles, tamales, and tiramisu, of which he's eaten four pounds within six minutes back in mid-2005.
We grabbed the contest on video in case you're interested in watching someone consume this much food in one sitting. There's also a set of photos of Janus and the finished plates here.
HP wants to bring you the news, just like Ron Burgundy.
(Credit: DreamWorks)At this week's Print 2.0 conference in New York, HP's Digital Entertainment Services group announced a new program called NextDayTV, which will make local TV coverage, events, broadcast programs, and televised sports games available on DVD soon after their original air dates. The inaugural partnership for the program is a deal with Major League Baseball, and you can now purchase a DVD of the game in which Barry Bonds hit his legendary 756th home run at San Francisco Giants Dugout stores as well as online at the Wal-Mart, Major League Baseball, FYE, and Suncoast Web sites.
Still to come are more partnerships, so that NextDayTV will be able to create DVDs on demand, as well as offer more "broadcast TV shows and sporting events that have high relevancy in specific geographic markets or with specific consumer segments" within a few days of their original air dates. Many of these, a release from HP stressed, would never make it to DVD for weeks or months (if ever).
This is obviously designed as a competitor to DVR services (some of which can burn programs to DVDs--others, like the one I have, can't) and digital marketplaces like the iTunes Store. But it seems a little bit counterintuitive for a company to be creating a video content program that uses DVDs rather than digital downloads; presumably the NextDayTV market will be those consumers who aren't jumping onto the video-on-demand and digital-download bandwagon. You know, like your mom.
It could be said that GotFrag, a news and social networking site for fans of competitive video gaming, just got pwned--but in a good way. New York-based professional gaming league Major League Gaming announced Wednesday that it has purchased GotFrag for an unspecified amount.
Through the acquisition, Major League Gaming hopes to boost the visibility of professional gaming, especially in the United States, where it's far more under-the-radar than it is in European and Asian countries. This has been an ongoing goal for the professional league, which inked a deal with the USA Network last year to have its 2006 pro gaming circuit broadcast on national cable television and which purchased another competitive gaming site, GameBattles.com, later that year. This year, Major League Gaming has been working with several production companies and talent agencies on with the aim of raising the profile of competitive gaming to something akin to poker tournaments or auto races.
GotFrag will remain an independent brand, maintaining its own office and staying largely separate from Major League Gaming, but a statement from the league says that new features will nevertheless still be on the way.
Baseball fans will want to keep an eye on this promise. Microsoft's Silverlight could be used to bring live Major League Baseball to your mobile phone. The MLB folks were on stage at MIX in Las Vegas, showing off the next generation of baseball video services. Their capper was a live game on a Windows-enabled cell phone. We've embedded MLB's presentation to the left.
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