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Senate Guard figure reward

What's up! I've got one more item and a final reminder for everyone. You can continue to post in myother blogfor the other rewards, but did you know that there's only two more days left tovote for GameSpot in the Webby's People's Choice awards? Voting ends on April 26th, which is coming up before we know it. If you haven't tried the Twitter, Google or Facebook voting options, do those today.

If you want to try for this adittional reward, just finish one of these sentences in any way you see fit.

'I'm ______ Skywalker, I?m here to rescue GameSpot.'

'Aren't you a little short for a ____________?'

This Senate Guard figure is in an unopened box but I had to remove the plastic bag over it to take a photo without a glare.

Once again, do this by Friday! :D

Socially GIVING!

After doing a little spring cleaning I came across some GameSpot skins for the Xbox 360, Kinect, and controller. I'll share some photos here shortly. I've also got some Battlefield 3 Controller show t-shirtts to give away. If you recall the logo, that's what it has on there. And, lastly there's two boxes with a variety of posters.

I'll be randomly handing out this stuff this week if you get social this week!

How would one of these awesome things become yours, you ask? To be social, one actually contributes, right? Do one of the things below,just be sure to share so in the comments below.

-Vote for us in the Webby's!-http://pv.webbyawards.com/ballot/9 - You are also welcome to share this url with your friends!

- Follow one of our newer GameSpot social feeds:Pinterestand/or Twitch. Then, post here right after so I can see the bump in the likes!

- Post a comment in the latest Social newswe had last week! You can say how awesome or weird our news is, or share some of the latest news we should probably consider in the Wednesday Social share news, your choice!

- Share this blog on Fuse! That's gonna be super easy if you already follow me. All you'd have to do is re-fuse the blog that pops in your feed.

I have about 20 skins and many t-shirts. Posters range from small to big, and they'll have to be a mystery since we have so many. The good news, if you have a games library or followed games list, I'll check that to determine a poster the best I can.

To make things fair, I'll give you all until Friday and then everyone's names will be put into a hat to receive something!

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Demolition!

NOTE: Click the blog title to expand the photos, or go to my Facebook page.

We've been doing some changes to the way we work lately. Two walls got knocked down last night. Check out the before and after photos of my desk taken by a Blackberry.

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After

Here's the view from Shaun's desk.

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After

In case you didn't know, Synthia and I sat near editorial for about a year there. We moved over to this corner near the tech/design/product staff and things got a little quiet for a couple of weeks there. Now with the walls down, you'd have to imagine that we can now hear McShea and others talking about games again. :P

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Mass Effect Madness and remembering pixel art!

Everyone keeps saying good and bad thing about Mass Effect 3 lately! It is about time we give you all something fun to do! How about a Mass Effect series trivia and pixel art contest!

Here is a teaser of my pixel art piece I've started today, using a base found in the contest page, which you'll find linked under side quest. I am still playing with her outfit, which will take much more time to get in some of those pixelated details. I'll share the finished Liara in another blog!

Note:She has been stretched to120 x 72 for this blog.Her face is actually about 53x42. Base by Guinevere.

If you're not that good at pixel art I highly recommend starting off with a base, and then explore starting from scratch for the contest. You can learn a lot from starting with a base.

Many years ago I had a contest that allowed people to create characters while using what I called a figurinez base. They were all actually virtual dollz also known as paperdollz. For about a month there I was hooked on creating these game figurinez and later made a contest. I'm now interested in creating today's generation of characters!

I also can't wait to see more pixel art submissions of characters, scenes, and other items from the Mass Effect Universe!

BONUS: Can you name the game characters I made many years ago?

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Tonight's Mass Effect 3 MP Game Night

This game night marks the return of Game Nights for the year. That does mean it's a celebration game night! We game it up, a celebration trivia happens next week, and an emblem is up for grabs!

For the rest of the evening, we'll play Mass Effect 3 multiplayer. Here are some things to know about this game night.

- Xbox 360 is the platform we'll be playing on. If you have another platform you can join share your in-game name here or in the game night discussion to have people join your game.

- Today's Game night begins at 3pm PT, in the next 30 mins. Synthia won't be joining us in until 6ish pm PT tonight. You can participate by sharing your in-game name in the game night discussion. Note: The game night chatroom is broken.

- Can't participate? We have a celebration trivia happening next week for those who can't participate. We'll share more details in the community news next week.