Win a Chance to Get Beaten Up - in a Video Game

Yahoo! News ^ | Mon, May 12, 2003 | Reuters

[yonif]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The good news: video game fans have a chance to star in an upcoming game release.

The bad news: your digital likeness will be beaten with lead pipes and body-slammed into concrete pool decks.

British video game publisher Eidos on Friday said it has struck a deal with games news company IGN Entertainment Inc. to sponsor a contest in which the winner will appear as a character in the upcoming game 'Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home.'

The game is set for release this summer on the PlayStation 2 (news - web sites) and Xbox (news - web sites) game consoles, and the contest, which requires only a name and an e-mail address, is open to anyone age 18 and up.

Eidos said the contest runner-up will receive a lineup of 'Backyard Wrestling' DVDs, in which competitors abuse each other with anything they can find. The Web site for Backyard Wrestling Inc. shows a number of competitors lying on the ground, beaten and bloody.

Separately, Eidos said it had signed a deal with Island Records for an official in-game soundtrack featuring some of the top hard-core rock music acts, including Sum 41, Slayer, and the Insane Clown Posse.

[BrooklynGOP]

I hope this will be out for PC. There isn't a single fighting game out for pc right now. They need to port Tekken 4 over.

[Prodigal Son]

The games industry is going to be absolutely huge one day. The possibilities are endless. Imagine how the porn industry is going to exploit this sort of technology...