Lionhead is giving you the opportunity to be in Fable 2, but like with most of these wonderful contests, there will be some work involved! To put it simply, you’ll need to dress up and pose like a hero of Albion would, take a picture, and send it into Lionhead. If you win, you’ll be featured in the paintings that adorn the walls of the most luxurious residences in Fable 2. Here is what they have to say on it:

“All you have to do is send in a picture of yourself in suitable artistic pose. Think old master, royal portraits or even the Mona Lisa! Dress up as an old or modern hero, go out to the countryside and find yourself a deer to shoot (not recommended) or just strike a suiting pose in front of an open fire. The thing that would make it even better is if you were to act out an expression from the original Fable.”

Here are a couple of examples they’ve given:

John L. Burns, the “old hero of Gettysburg,” and King Otto

The contest ends June 4th, and you must be over 13 years old, and sadly, according the fine print, there will only be one winner. Go here when you are ready to send in your submissions.

Now, a couple of submissions I am thinking of sending in:

1. Standing in my underwear with a sword, winking and pointing at the camera.

2. With my fists on my hips, have my foot resting on a corpse, looking heroically up at the sky (clothed).

And a few more that I don’t want to tell you in case you try and steal them. Get your own ideas, loser.

Available now, Bungie has let us all know that “Legendary Brawl”, the ranked 12-player Free-For-All gametype, will be this weekend’s “Double EXP” special. Lasting until 2am PDT on Monday, June 2nd, you’ll need the Legendary map pack to play it. Having recently downloaded it myself (last weekend), I’m excited to play this new gametype. I know my brother will be too, as he has been wishing for larger free-for-all battles. I’ve only just become a Major Grade 2, and while I still have a ways to go to rank up again, this will certainly be a huge help.

See you online.

On Attack of the Show! tonight, Kevin announced that G4 will be showcasing the first ever gameplay footage of Grand Theft Auto IV this Sunday at 12pm EST. This will be the first time real gameplay of the title has ever been shown to the public (as in someone actually playing it, not a video featuring crazy camera angles and carefully edited cutscenes), so if you wanna see how it looks before you pick it up, be sure to tune in. I am struggling to decide, as I will be picking up my limited edition copy the next day (Tuesday if you wanna get really technical. Midnight releases FTW!). Do I wait and be completely surprised? Or do I spoil it for myself? I think I will wait, but boredom may get the best of me Sunday morning…

These scans are from the May 2008 issue of Game Informer which features a Gears of War 2 exclusive cover story.  Mine just came in the mail today, so I figured I would scan and upload it for you.  The screens look much better in the magazine, so pick it up as soon as you can! I want to get this out to you guys as fast as possible, so instead of summarizing the article myself, you can read it for yourself in the scans, or, you can check the link where there is a summary of all the important points by SHOTEH FOCK OP at NeoGAF.

EDIT: Due to some complaints about the size of the images, they have been reduced to 50% of their original size in the following set. The set afterwards is the set at the original (and not as good quality) size.

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For the Xbox 360 at least.

As previously reported, Portal’s theme song, “Still Alive” (performed by the villain in the game, GLaDOS) is coming to Rock Band for both the PS3 and 360, but it wasn’t until today that we receive solid release dates. Tomorrow, April 1st, “Still Alive” will be hitting the 360 via the Marketplace and Rock Band’s own in-game music store. PS3 owners will sadly have to wait, however, until April 17th. Why the delay? Because the Playstation Store is receiving a redesign, and new content will have to wait until it is complete. Sorry guys

If I want to download it, I will have to unhook a lot of cables and move various routers around. I think I will wait, as I should have that 50-foot LAN cable later this week. I’ll go ahead and purchase it now actually. I just got back into Rock Band too, and am still going through Easy mode with the Drums. It isn’t that I suck (because I rock), but because I just haven’t been playing it.

 
 
Thanks to IGN

Hopefully it will be! According to several games industry sources and UK retailers, all 360 SKU’s will be receiving a €50 price cut (£38.26) on March 14th. A couple of weeks back, Canada saw a similar price drop, with the Elite and Premium SKU’s being cut by $50, and the Arcade being cut by $20.

The most interesting aspect of this price drop is that the Arcade SKU will become cheaper than the Nintendo Wii, according to Amazon, by around £30. Not only should we expect to see sales go up for the 360, but this will be one more reason for Grand Theft Auto fans to pick up the 360 version of GTA IV, as opposed to the Playstation 3 come next month. The 360 version of the game is also receiving exclusive downloadable content for the game, part of which will first arrive on the system this August. I’m sure the 360 will start looking better and better in the coming weeks, but one factor that will give the PS3 an edge in consumer’s minds will be the free online service.

How do you think Nintendo and Sony will respond to this?
 
 

Thanks to TechRadar. Thanks to Llamma.com for the pic.