The “Break it Down” Blog

Microsoft Hosting a Huge Gears of War 2 Sweepstakes

Starting next week Microsoft is running a 13 day long Gear of War 2 Play and Win contest.  February 1st through 13th each day you play will get you an entry to win a 40 inch 1080p LCD TV plus a lot of other Gears of War 2 themed prizes. Despite not knowing a single [...]

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POV-Ray 512-Byte Code Contest Winners

This is pretty phenomenal. For the people reading this that used to follow the demo scene from the 90s (Future Crew anyone?), I guess there is a contest out there called the “POVRay Short Code Contest“. In the past contestants would submit pictures for the contest and see who could create the most technically compelling image [...]

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SmugMug Just Gave me an iPhone

How cool could a Friday get? I’ll tell you how cool… you get an email in your inbox saying “Congratulations, you won”… an iPhone. So a few months ago SmugMug, awesome photo sharing site, decided to hold a contest to promote usage of their extended and enhanced developer API. I had been working pretty heavily for [...]

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