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We have another nice giveaway for our great Big Download readers today. Developer Timegate Studios is working hard on the upcoming downloadable sci-fi shooter Section 8 Prejudice. The game will be shown off at three different exhibitor booths at this weekend's PAX East 2011 event in Boston and there will also be t-shirt and poster giveaways as well.

But if you are not able to attend PAX East, Big Download still wants to give you a chance to get one of five downloadable copies of the game when it releases later this year along with a t-shirt and poster as well.

So how do you win? It's pretty easy:

• To enter, post a comment on this contest page.
• The comment must be left before 11:59 pm Eastern Time on Sunday, March 13
• You may enter only once.
• Five winners will be selected in a random drawing.
• Those five winners will each be emailed a code to download the PC version of Section 8 Prejudice (valued at $14.99 each) when it's released later this year along with being sent via mail a Section 8 Prejudice t-shirt and poster (valued at $20)
• Click Here for complete Official Rules. You must be a resident of the US or Canada (excluding Quebec) who is 18 years or older to enter this contest

Our thanks to Timegate Studios for sponsoring this giveaway. Good luck.

If you are not aware that StarCraft II has been released this week, well, you are just not paying attention to this web site. Blizzard's RTS sequel is finally out in stores and this week Big Download has been celebrating with some giveaways. You still have until 11:59 pm Eastern time tonight to enter to win one of three copies of the game itself provided by GameStop. Also you have until the same time on Thursday to enter to win one of three StarCraft II Zboards and a StarCraft II mouse pad provided by SteelSeries.

Today we are taking a small break from introducing new giveaways but stay tuned as we will have another StarCraft II related contest on Thursday and yet another one for Friday.

Do you want to check out a cool new downloadable 3D puzzle game? Would you like to win a full version of said game? You are in luck today as Big Download now has six Steam download codes to give away for the newly released title Puzzle Dimension.

This nifty game comes from new start up game developer Doctor Entertainment and lets the player navigate through a maze of 100 3D puzzles. The visuals and music change as you progress through the various puzzles. Did we mention that since you get it via Steam you can have access to Steam achievements, leaderboards and the Steam Cloud features?

If you want to win one of the six Steam codes we have for Puzzle Dimension here's how you go about it:

• To enter, post a comment on this contest page.
• The comment must be left before 11:59 pm Eastern Time on Wednesday, June 30
• You may enter only once.
• Six winners will be selected in a random drawing.
• Those six winners will each be sent a Steam code to download Puzzle Dimension (valued at $9.99 each)
• Click Here for complete Official Rules. You must be a resident of the US or Canada (excluding Quebec) who is 18 years or older to enter this contest

Our thanks to Doctor Entertainment for sponsoring this giveaway. Good luck.

With Christmas less than three weeks away its time to think less about yourself and more about others. Here at Big Download we want to our part with a number of giveaway contests. Today is the last day you can enter our Solium Infernum giveaway where we have three copies of Cryptic Comet's recently released turn-based strategy game to give out to some lucky readers. If you are eligible, check out our official contest page for more info and put in your entry.

We still have a few more days for our Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter giveaway and we have even more contests planned this month so stay tuned.

If you are a regular reader here at Big Download you know that we love to give out free stuff. This week, because of the holidays, we have five contests currently running where you can have a chance to win things like free downloadable games from Stardock, a free retail box copy of Prince of Persia from Ubisoft (DRM-free) and free game codes to download titles from GoG.com.

If you have lost track of all of our current contests, don't fret. Here is a list of all of the official pages for each contest along with their deadlines for entry. The prizes aren't as good looking as the trophy to the right but they sure take up less space and they won't stay under lock and key in a glass cabinet. Again, good luck

Sins of a Solar Empire downloadable game giveaway - Deadline is 11:59 pm ET on Dec. 20
Galactic Civilizations II downloadable game giveaway - Deadline is 11:59 pm ET on Dec. 21
GoG.com game code giveaway - Deadline is 11:59 pm ET on Dec. 22
Demigod downloadable game giveaway - Deadline is 11:59 pm ET on Dec. 23
Prince of Persia retail box game giveaway - Deadline is 11:59 pm ET on Dec. 23
Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 retail game and swag giveaway - Deadline is 11:59 pm ET on Dec. 26

Thanks to everyone who entered our Left 4 Dead PC giveaway contest. We have now picked the five winners, each of which has been sent a Steam code to download the full version of Valve's zombie co-op shooter. Congrats to Wesley Hamilton of Springfield, MO, Adam Foster of Lincoln, NE, Greg Sutton of Missouri City, TX, Hector Calderon of Whittier, CA and Carlos Geuther of Bronx, NY for being picked as the winners. Thanks again to Left 4 Dead's publisher Electronic Arts for the donation of the Steam codes.

[Update] This contest has ended. A winner was selected and notified via email. Thanks to everyone who participated and helped make this contest a huge success.

Big Download has been giving away a bunch of hot games recently, and now we're looking to give a high-powered gaming computer away to one lucky winner. iBuypower, manufacturer of custom built high-performance gaming rigs, is partnering with Big Download to give away a brand-new Paladin F870-SB system, which uses the latest Intel Core i7 processor technology. This bad boy is completely decked out with 1 TB of hard drive space, 6 GB of RAM, two ATI 4870 video cards, 8-channel surround sound, a Blu-ray drive and a 20.1" Sceptre widescreen monitor. Check out the official iBuypower website for the full specs on this monster, which retails for $2,499.

Winning will require a little bit of detective work. Since there's so much fuss around DRM in PC gaming, we've decided to DRM the entire computer using old-school copy protection methods. Specifically, contestants will need to "check the manual" (our website) to complete a 5-word phrase. Email the completed phrase to contests@bigdownload.com to enter into the random drawing for the iBuypower Paladin F870 computer system.

Here are the directions:

1. Click on the image above or gallery link below for the clues
2. Follow the clues to find keywords planted within Big Download features to complete a 5-word phrase
3. Email the completed phrase to contests@bigdownload.com to be entered into the random drawing
4. Only one valid entry (with the correct phrase) allowed per person. Retries are accepted and won't count against participants.
5. Entries must be received by 11:59PM on December 8, 2008.

Click Here for complete Official Rules. You must be a resident of the US or Canada (excluding Quebec) who is 18 years or older to enter this contest.

Thanks to iBuypower for donating the prize for this giveaway.

Just a reminder that we are in the last day of running a contest where three lucky Big Download readers will be getting a boxed copy of Activision's new action game adaptation of the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace. If you want your copy it's time to head over to the official contest page, make a comment on that page (not this one) and then wait until after Nov. 21 where we will select at random three of the people who made comments. Those folks will each get a Quantum of Solace PC game copy. Good luck.

[UPDATE] All the Battleforge keys have been distributed. Thanks to everyone who participated in this contest.

Big Download has another contest for our readers today and this one is going to go fast. We've partnered up with Electronic Arts to offer our readers a way to get into the current beta test for Battleforge, the upcoming fantasy RTS-collectible card game from developer Phenomic that will be officially launched in early 2009.

In short, we have 200 beta codes for the game that we are going to give to our readers. This will be on a first come-first served basis. Once we give out the keys, there will be no more. How do you enter? It's simple. Just email us at contests@bigdownload.com with the subject line "Battleforge Beta Test Contest." The first 200 people to respond will get beta codes for the Battleforge beta test. You can grab the beta test installer right here at Big Download. If you don't get one of the codes, don't fret. You can still register for the beta test at Battleforgecardhunt.com.

Remember, this is just for the first 200 people who email us. Big thanks to EA for supplying the beta codes and the installer. Good luck.

Gallery: Battleforge