No articles yet this weekend? Blame StarCraft II. How about your own free guest pass for the weekend!

I decided to nerd out yesterday and rummage through an extensive period of time playing the game. Some how in the midst of this, I realized I still have a guest pass. I also have a World of Warcraft 10 day trial, but seriously who plays that garbage.

For this “contest” lets say we go against the grain shall we? I don’t need any of you following our editor @thejournalizer, we don’t need you adding us on Facebook and we sure don’t require you to comment on this post.

Contest Requirement: Draw your best Pac-man. It may have something to do with this. Draw it on the computer, a piece of paper, or even with an airplane. As long as we get it by Monday night, you are entered to win!

You can post the image in our comments, e-mail it to owner@play-this.org or tweet it to @thejournalizer. Make sure you give us at least an e-mail address, so we can contact you with the prize. The winner will be announced Tuesday, along with some interesting surprises. If you don’t happen to like StarCraft, there is a good chance there is someone you know who would love to dabble in it.

Call Apple, or get a real friend.

So, you waited for an entire day at the Apple store to get the new iPhone, but then you realized you have no real friends.

Apple has you covered!

If you don’t have any real friends, or maybe it’s because the phone has only been out two days, Apple has started a service for Facetime.

For those who would like to test out Facetime, you can call 1-888-Facetime and an Apple rep will teach you how to use the features. As much as I would love to assume this feature will be exploited by 80-year-old women who have nobody to talk to and creepy Chatroulette people, they do have your number.

We tried it and were connected right away. They were far too happy for 8am, so I flipped them off and hung up on them.

Contest

The person who can take a screenshot of the most awkward thing possibly done while testing a Facetime call with an Apple rep will get the iMovies app, on the house.

Send your awkwardness to owner@play-this.org or better yet link the photo in the comments for all to see!

Contest will end Sunday at 1 pm EST. Try to refrain from involving nudity.

They should be seeing something like this.

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Winner Winner Chicken Dinner, Xbox Live Giveaway announced.

Winner Winner

Our winner for the April Fools Xbox Live Gold giveaway is Phatman939. Hopefully now you can just kill some n00bs on Modern Warfare 2 to relax after all the stresses. Phatman939 submitted a well deserved request. Below are a few of our other strange favorites.

I would like one month gold because i live in a developing country called Bolivia. I am a missionary to here and i have nothing to do but to go and play with homeless children, i will soon get a picture up of me here helping the homeless if you would like that, my name is Levi Potutschnig and if you look my last name up on google you will find a site about my family and life as a missionary. I would really like one month if it is possible please send me one.

Jack Ross:  i just need to get lots of gamerscore and then im the big daddy

Come Get Some.

Free apps!

It was inevitable, Applications are now gift-able from iTunes.

iTunes rolled out a new feature where users can now purchase and gift applications to anyone with an iTunes account in their country. Similar options have previously been available to gift music, albums and movies so this was an expected move from Apple.

In addition to the new gifting option, Apple made some addendum to their Terms of Service (TOS) agreement.

The addendum’s to the iTunes TOS state that users can only gift apps and not in-app purchases, in-app subscriptions or OS upgrades.

Apple also has ensured parental controls won’t be bypassed with this as it prevents users from gifting adult rated material much like music and movies.
So who would like to find Waldo on the house?

In addition to the current contest for a free month of Xbox Live Gold, the 10th person to e-mail owner@play-this.org with a U.S. iTunes e-mail account will get the Where’s Waldo App.

Golden Burrito awards

It’s a new year with new awards! Win a free month of Xbox Live Gold by following!

Play This readers we’ve got another special contest give away for a month of Xbox Live gold.

To enter all you have to do is one of the following:

Follow us on Facebook

Follow us on Twitter

E-mail (owner@play-this.org) us with why you deserve it

*Doing all three will increase your chance of winning.

We will pick one person at random and give you the code via e-mail on April 1, 2010.

The last day to enter will be on March 31 by midnight EST.

We will also be announcing our 2010 golden burrito awards along with the winner of the code. April will be the end of the first quarter of the year and Play This will be reflecting upon all of the great new games, movies, books and music that have come out. We will also be announcing an extra honorable mention to the best iPhone (game) app for 2010.

There is still time to enter nominations and submit media for this contest, e-mail Play This magazine at owner@play-this.com for more information.

Microsoft is not affiliated or connected with this contest.

Even iPod's fit in the case!

iPhone case give away!

Need a case to protect that expensive iPhone but don’t have the extra moolah? Play-This.org has you covered! Case-Mate recently released an amazing new iPhone/iPod Touch cover that only costs .99 cents.

The iPhone 3G / 3GS recession case is also currently out of stock but guess who has you covered. Rather than even paying one solid cent, tell us why you need this amazing case and Play-This.org will hook you up! One lucky winner will also get the custom labeled Play-This.org hand written logo from Case-Mate and another person will also get a free month of Xbox Live Gold with their recession case. Either post your information in the comment section with e-mail address or e-mail us at evolutionfreelancemedia@gmail.com. We assure you there will be no spam, no stupid newsletters or any other misplaced information that you provide us. Check out Case-Mate’s Website for more awesome cases. You should also check out their rather funny Q&A section for the recession case.

iPhone 3G / 3GS recession case from Case-Mate

Play This is back in action with a new name, new site and quite a bit large budget to work from. Play This is now Play-This.org having mag in there seemed discouraging and odd. We are currently working on the layout as you can tell it may be quite buggy in places. If you see a major issue we would greatly appreciate you letter us know as well. For those of you new to Play-This we currently have bi-weekly give aways for free Xbox Live Gold cards and at the end of the year will have a big holiday prize drawing.

If you would like to enter for the next one month free Xbox Live gold card e-mail us at evolutionfreelancemedia@gmail.com Tell us why you want it and it’s yours!

Hey all – This contest has concluded, but we will have another run in 2010!

Our April contest is now open to our readers. Simply e-mail us at owner@play-this.org or you can follow us on Facebook or Twitter. Each of these will increase your chance to win. For more details, download our free print version of Play This magazine by clicking our logo in the advertisement spot.

Alright Top Chef fans here is the deal, tonight is the series premier of Top Chef New York. So after episode one throw us your line up for who you think will win.

Next weeks episode has guest stars FOO FIGHTERS!

Here are the contestants:

Alex

Ariane

Carla

Danny

Fabio

Gene

Hosea

Jamie

Jeff

Jill

Lauren

Leah

Melissa

Patrick

Radhika

Richard

Stefan

For more details on each person check out this link.

We’ll figure out what the winner gets later on. Either comment your line up or e-mail us at editor@playthismag.com

Our Current picks: (clearly will be changing but we will make our final bids in after episode 3 or 4. When there are 10 left.

Top 5

1.Stefan

2. Leah

3. Trevor

4. Eugene**

5. Carla

Lower 10- First to go most likely.

6. Danny

7. Fabio

8. Horsea

9. Jeff

10. Alex

11. Jamie

12. Melissa

13. Radhika

14. Ariane

Jill

Lauren

Patrick