We know you can't wait to get your hands on the new Hardcover of VALVE Presents: The Sacrifice and Other Steam Powered Stories. And we wanted to celebrate the beautiful union of this Dark Horse Comics and VALVE collaboration.
Well, we've got THE contest for you. We've teamed up with VALVE and IGN.com to bring you a chance to win a signed piece of ORIGINAL ART from Left4Dead. Not only that, but we're giving the winner of this here contest a signed copy of VALVE Presents: The Sacrifice and Other Steam Powered Stories. Seriously, that's not enough for you? Okay, Okay. How about we throw in a real physical hat, hand-modified by one of Dark Horse Comics very own editors. Something crazy you won't get anywhere else. That's a GINORMOUS prize package, and wait until you see the Original Art. Brainsplode!
And wait there's more! We'll go ahead and give two runners-up a signed copy of the book as well. How do you like dem apples?
How do you win this amazing prize pacakge of goodness +12? You create a machinima film using any of VALVE's amazing video games and recreate a scene from your favorite Dark Horse Comic.
Official Rules:
1.) Create a machinima format film of any length utilizing a VALVE video game (Left4Dead, Team Fortress 2, Portal 2, etc.) to recreate any scene from a Dark Horse Comics book you love.
2.) Post on the interwebs and email a link to contests [at] darkhorse [dot] com (Include "VALVE/IGN" in the subject line)
Deadline: You have until Sat. Nov. 5th at Midnight to complete and submit your videos. IGN will pick the top 5-10 videos and VALVE themselves will pick a winner on Nov. 15th!
That's it! Get to it!
The fine print: No purchase necessary. One online entry per person (one e-mail address per person/address). You must be eighteen years of age or older to enter. Contest entries only accepted from people living in North America (United States and Canada) and submitted by midnight (PDT), Nov. 5th, 2011, to be eligible. Winner will be selected based upon the quality of submitted video (as determined at Dark Horse's sole discretion) from all applicable entries and will be notified by Nov. 16th, 2011. Entry constitutes agreement by winners to be publicized and permission to use each winner's name for the purposes of promotion of the Contest without further compensation. Contest void where prohibited. Odds of winning dependent on number of entrants.