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Today's mysterious package

Odd looking packages

A strange package appeared at my office yesterday. I was not expecting anything, so I was a little nervous. I slowly opened it up and pulled out the packaging to be greeted with two well wrapped odd objects and a letter. I pulled the letter out and read it, and it was a nice note from the team at The Behemoth. If you remember waaaay back to February 26th, when I interviewed John Baez from the The Behemoth he was telling me about their latest game Alien Hominid HD. During the interview, John was telling me that they were going to offer real tangible trophies for gamertags at the top of the AH HD leaderboards each week. Since I work at Xbox and not eligible to get one, they made a special one for me complete with a mark of authenticity in the base.

I have posted photos of the trophy (and letter/packaging) on Flickr.

Thanks guys!

(In case you were wondering, the trophy was actually two pieces -the base and the top – that I had to assemble myself.)

 

Posted: Jun 14 2007, 10:07 PM by Major Nelson | with 51 comment(s) |
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Anon 1

Very Cool

June 14, 2007 10:10 PM [Direct Link]
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Haha! Nifty!

June 14, 2007 10:36 PM [Direct Link]
Anon 2

Man, they made you assemble it and everything, what a rip off.

But that is pretty cool. That is what we (gamers) want, cool things like trophies and prizes. We still haven't seen to many promotions to get MS points, and what would make a better gift than MS points?

June 14, 2007 10:58 PM [Direct Link]
Anon 3

So are any of your co-workers jealous yet ? ;)

June 14, 2007 11:02 PM [Direct Link]
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haha! crap i thought that was a roll of gauze for your gimp arm, Maj!

June 14, 2007 11:07 PM [Direct Link]
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Now THAT is nice.

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That is really cool

June 14, 2007 11:12 PM [Direct Link]
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so i gotta ask....... gimp arm?

June 14, 2007 11:18 PM [Direct Link]
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Very cool. But damn is that game hard -- I still don't know what to do with that friggin' coloured lightning part in the later chapters... My hand feels like it got ran over by the Xbox.com camera crew van, twice, after playing Alien Hominid HD -- cramming the X button is hard work!

-Rocky

June 14, 2007 11:23 PM [Direct Link]
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That is SWEET MAJ! Yea what did you mean by that trixie??

June 14, 2007 11:24 PM [Direct Link]
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