Dammit, I meant gentlemen!

Ladies and Gentle Ben, get your entries in for the Half Life 2 competition as it ends in just two days time! Remember, to enter, all you have to do is subscribe to Mark Attack via the Subscribe link on the right.

Keep an eye on your inbox, as you may be receiving an email from Valve in the next few days with details of your prize. The odds are quite good at the moment, so every entry counts!

On another note, we have another blogger joining MarkAttack, a chap called Simon, who I think you’ll get to know quite well. He’s a very opinionated bloke, not quite as controversial as me (for example I can’t see him attempting to convert you all to Communism), but I can definitely say he’ll be posting some hard hitting stuff. He’s also on Twitter so get following!

Half-Life 2

Yes yes, it is showing it’s age a little these days, but Half Life 2 is still a great PC first person shooter; and if you haven’t played it yet, not got around to it or whatever, what could be better than grabbing a copy for free? Exactly. Not complaining now are we?

So what do you need to do to get your grubby little mits on it? Absolutely nothing — is what you’d want me to say, but in reality, what you have to do is very little. See the subscribe link on the right? Pop your email address in there, and you’ll get an email every time I post a new rant or review, so you can have your say.

Every validated subscriber will be entered (but only one entry per person mind you! I have mysterious ways of checking if you’ve created multiple email addresses, just for a four year old game. You should be ashamed!), and one will be picked at random on the 30th June 2009.

The copy of Half-Life 2 by the way, will be given in the form of a Steam “gift”, so you would need to install Valve’s Steam application if you haven’t already from here. Which.. you would have to do if you bought it from the store anyway.. hm.. oh well.

Again, I understand the prize isn’t exactly cutting edge, but I’m just one chap here, just testing the water as far as competitions go. If there’s a good response to this one, then hey, higher value ones will be on the way!