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January 17th, 2010, 18:05
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/2010/01/custom_1263286934956_rainus.jpgNo doubt about it, Heavy Rain (http://kotaku.com/tag/heavyrain/)'s box art (http://kotaku.com/tag/boxart/) for North America is a train wreck, if two trains overcame their apathy long enough to crash into each other. Think you can do better? Here's your chance.
Opening Kotaku's first regular Photoshop contest - which many have clamored for - is our call for submissions of a better boxcover for the upcoming PS3 exclusive. The European release at least gets a thought-provoking still life of origami.
American and Canadian consumers get the origami, but they also get a cheerfully out-of-place wet t-shirt contestant, and three men wearing various expressions of shame, the third apparently contemplating suicide.
So here's where you come in. Make this better. And by better, we mean, make it either more humorous, more serious, more ironic, more anything than this lukewarm shit salad of an album cover.
Source Material:
Heavy Rain European Box Art (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2010/01/boxart_eur_heavy-rain-big.jpg)
Heavy Rain U.S. Box Art (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2010/01/4268197268_3b58521635_o.jpg)
Now, here are the rules, should you choose to accept them. Submit your entry to tipsATkotakuDOTcom with the words "Shop Contest" somewhere in the headline. Since this is going to email, please render your creations as .jpegs or .gifs no wider than 800 pixels. That's how they are going to be published anyway.
Feel free to include any commentary you wish. But most importantly, be sure to sign your work with the name or commenting handle to be credited. If you use your commenting handle, please do send us its URL, which you may get by clicking on your name all the way at the top of this page.
Whaddaya win? Publication. Fame and admiration among your peers. We're going to make this a bi-weekly feature - which means winners will be published Saturday, Jan. 30. So you have two weeks to make this thing sing. Go and do likewise, gentle readers.
http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?p=1 (http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?p=1) http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/kotaku/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/kotaku/full?a=GEvh0tlIsSY:Z064sD5diiA:yIl2AUoC8zA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/kotaku/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/kotaku/full?a=GEvh0tlIsSY:Z064sD5diiA:H0mrP-F8Qgo) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/kotaku/full?i=GEvh0tlIsSY:Z064sD5diiA:D7DqB2pKExk</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/kotaku/full?a=GEvh0tlIsSY:Z064sD5diiA:D7DqB2pKExk) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/kotaku/full?i=GEvh0tlIsSY:Z064sD5diiA:V_sGLiPBpWU</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/kotaku/full?a=GEvh0tlIsSY:Z064sD5diiA:V_sGLiPBpWU)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/kotaku/full/~4/GEvh0tlIsSY
More... (http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/kotaku/full/~3/GEvh0tlIsSY/kotaku-shop-contest-heavy-rain-edition)
Opening Kotaku's first regular Photoshop contest - which many have clamored for - is our call for submissions of a better boxcover for the upcoming PS3 exclusive. The European release at least gets a thought-provoking still life of origami.
American and Canadian consumers get the origami, but they also get a cheerfully out-of-place wet t-shirt contestant, and three men wearing various expressions of shame, the third apparently contemplating suicide.
So here's where you come in. Make this better. And by better, we mean, make it either more humorous, more serious, more ironic, more anything than this lukewarm shit salad of an album cover.
Source Material:
Heavy Rain European Box Art (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2010/01/boxart_eur_heavy-rain-big.jpg)
Heavy Rain U.S. Box Art (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2010/01/4268197268_3b58521635_o.jpg)
Now, here are the rules, should you choose to accept them. Submit your entry to tipsATkotakuDOTcom with the words "Shop Contest" somewhere in the headline. Since this is going to email, please render your creations as .jpegs or .gifs no wider than 800 pixels. That's how they are going to be published anyway.
Feel free to include any commentary you wish. But most importantly, be sure to sign your work with the name or commenting handle to be credited. If you use your commenting handle, please do send us its URL, which you may get by clicking on your name all the way at the top of this page.
Whaddaya win? Publication. Fame and admiration among your peers. We're going to make this a bi-weekly feature - which means winners will be published Saturday, Jan. 30. So you have two weeks to make this thing sing. Go and do likewise, gentle readers.
http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?p=1 (http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?p=1) http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/kotaku/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/kotaku/full?a=GEvh0tlIsSY:Z064sD5diiA:yIl2AUoC8zA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/kotaku/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/kotaku/full?a=GEvh0tlIsSY:Z064sD5diiA:H0mrP-F8Qgo) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/kotaku/full?i=GEvh0tlIsSY:Z064sD5diiA:D7DqB2pKExk</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/kotaku/full?a=GEvh0tlIsSY:Z064sD5diiA:D7DqB2pKExk) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/kotaku/full?i=GEvh0tlIsSY:Z064sD5diiA:V_sGLiPBpWU</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/kotaku/full?a=GEvh0tlIsSY:Z064sD5diiA:V_sGLiPBpWU)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/kotaku/full/~4/GEvh0tlIsSY
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