Giveaway is all done – thanks to everyone who played! See Updates below.
By some weird quirk of fate, I find myself in possession of not one, but two sealed boxed copies of the truly excellent Batman: Arkham Asylum for PC. This is the best game of the year so far. No joke. Just check out that Metacritic score! I’ve already played through it entirely on the Xbox 360, which is pretty much the same, except the PC version looks sharper at higher resolution and if you have an Nvidia graphics card, it has extra PhysX effects.
Since I have two of these, I”m giving one away! Here are the rules:
1. Go on Twitter and tweet the following:
@jasoncross00 is giving away a copy of Batman: Arkham Asylum for PC. Just retweet this! Go to www.jasoncross.org for details.
2. Sit back and wait for me to pick you as the lucky winner! I’ll pick the winner in a couple days. I’d send a direct message through twitter to the person who wins, asking them to contact me with their address so I can ship it off.
One final stipulation here: This isn’t any kind of official sponsored contest thing, I don’t have a lawyer or anything, it’s just something fun I’m doing. And I’m not made of money. So the winner will have to be from the U.S. Shipping it outside the U.S. starts to cost more than it’s really worth, I’m afraid. Even if you’re not from the U.S., feel free to do the twitter thing! 
Update:
After giving more than an hour’s warning, I just went to random.org and chose a winner. Tried to contact them via direct message on twitter, but they don’t follow me. So I sent a follow request and we’ll see how that goes.
So for now, the contest is over. If I can’t get in touch with the winner or if they for some reason can’t be a winner (if they’re in the UK or something) then I’ll pick another one. Either way, you all can stop tweeting now. I’ll announce the winner on twitter and update here after they get in touch with shipping info.
Update 2:
The new winner is MichaelBills, an artist. Check out his site michaelbills.com for some of his nifty concept art and stuff. Big thanks to everyone who participated in my shameless and cheap ploy to increase my totally anemic web traffic!
#1 by ScoobySnacks on September 18, 2009 - 9:02 pm
tweeted ^_^
#2 by eDRoaCH on September 19, 2009 - 12:16 am
While I really want the game, I am waiting for it on steam.
that said, please dont do these twitter contests, they are really just one step up from the spam that is plaguing twitter and will impact the usability and the future of the service
and no, I am not a twitter employee. There are more genuine ways to get followers.
#3 by JT on September 19, 2009 - 3:56 am
eDRoaCH I think he just trying to be nice and this is a quick and easy way for him to pick a winner. As for twitter they are a service and should not care if a person try to up there followers, this is good for twitter. Also if twitter goes away I am sure something new will replace it, the net is not stuck in one place it is always changeing.
#4 by jasoncross on September 19, 2009 - 10:40 am
Actually, it was more a cheap ploy for me to send people to my blog – not a cheap ploy to get more twitter followers. There’s actually nothing about following me in the rules, you only have to tweet about it.
And yes, it also simply makes it easy to pick a winner. I could have had people email me, but that wouldn’t increase site traffic like everyone twittering my URL, and it would require putting my email address up there for every spambot in the world to glom on to.