the winning contributor produced the only entry in the top 10 which was handpainted (digitally) pretty well unlike many others, which used Photoshop effects on existing concept art and preview screenshots. He clearly put a bit of time in.

The prizes weren't very high quality though! 1st prize wasn't bad i guess, but who wants a bloody Quake 4 t-shirt (2nd prize), or worse, 3 months subscription to something no one really wants (3rd prize), Gamespy Founders Club. It seems to give you Fileplanet, Gamepsy Arcade and some crappy Insider exclusive content bollocks. 

That 3rd prize seems more like an insult. 

Well done for placing in the top ten. I do agree that there's too much going on, but equally I think the screenshots on the monitors look really cool - those with a simpler overall image could have done very well IMHO. 

Is anyone here experienced with Google AdSense? I am having problems making it display ads that are actually relevant to my site. I have a blog at http://dnaumov.blogspot.com/ and have had AdSense code in my pages for over a month now, so I'm guessing that it has been recrawled by the bots at least once or twice now. Yet, the only ads I see being displayed are related to blogging. Not a single ad related to games, marketing, level design or whatever at all. What am I doing wrong? 

REAL Quake 4 t-shirt!

as opposed to a fake one? o.0 

necros: yes, which can easily be made.

I'm proud to have a REAL Quake 4 t-shirt myself :) also glad I can wear it to work without looking like a dweeb :) 

likely it's due to being hosted on blogspace, and that's taking precedence in the googlebot's mind. 

Well I just took a look at some other blogs hosted on the same site and their Google ads are working fine. For example http://dsweeper.blogspot.com/ shows bible and religion-related ads. 

I have one too :)
http://arkhytas.blogspot.com

Thought to try out the fashion... :P

Nothing much quake related there yet.. :/ 

Wow, awesome blog, beats the hell out of Jago's "Let's all be salesmen" stuff. (Sorry Jago.) Interesting subject matter I must say, but only because I'm addicted to being a physicist-wannabe. 

You make me cry inside. 

more like aeronautical engineer wannabee

or just a layman interested in spaceflight! 

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable/frog-design-mind-124912.php 

The iPod looks clean because its design references bathroom appliances? heh.

Fair play to them though; The black iPod NANO is possibly the sexiest gadget I've ever seen... goddamn beautiful. 

Scampie said - "I'm proud to have a REAL Quake 4 t-shirt myself :) also glad I can wear it to work without looking like a dweeb :)"

You're a bastard. :(

;) 

to wear the t-shirt of the rock band you are going to see in concert?

Wouldn't the same thing apply to wearing the t-shirt of the game your company is currently working on to work? 

there's a whole shitload o' dweebs wandering around here then. 

dweebier to wear the band t-shirt of the band you're in, esp. while performing. 

a "#TF" shirt whenever i connect to #tf. It goes nicely with my "OMG BANNED" hat and my "OMG MR HANDS" tattoo. 

I'm seriously considering tatooing "mrhands.mpg" to my right bicep. 

you suck 

you guys make me look at the most horrid stuff on the internet. 

No doubt a /google mrhands.mpg would turn up sufficient evidence, but I just ate. So what's mrhands.mpg? A making-of documentary of goatse? 

You heard of the story about the guy who died from infection after a horse fucked him in the ass on video tape?

Well, it's certainly not THAT. 

...dweebier to wear the band t-shirt of the band you're in, esp. while performing.

I dont know about that, the cheering crowd last Sunday must've been dweeb lovers.