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Black Ops II Revolution Grudge Match results (and giveaway)
Matt Cain and Evan Longoria with their game faces on MLB star athletes Evan Longoria of the Tampa Bay Rays and Matt Cain of the San Francisco Giants met on the virtual field of battle this week — and...
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Skylanders fans: Get Ninjini free Feb 5 in NYC
She’s the girl all the Portal Masters want Uh, wow. One of the most anticipated figures in the Skylanders Giants line, Ninjini, won’t be out until later this year…unless you can get yourself to New...
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Win Ninjini from Skylanders on Twitter
On Tuesday, Activision gave free Ninjini figures to eager Skylanders Giants fans who braved a long line and bitter cold outside the Toys R Us in Times Square in New York City. Lots of kids were in...
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One of Shirts Giveaway: Medium, February 2013
Welcome to the One of Swords Free-Tee Poetry Happening. Please snap your fingers for our next performance and hear, in your head, an upright bass and a pair of bongos digging into a jazz groove. O!...
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Announcing the 2013 One of Swords button
It has become my annual tradition – a button every year, to give out to people that I see at PAX and other events. PAX East is just a month away, so Kat and I planned ahead, and I now have the 2013...
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Win a rare Skylanders Toy Fair 2013 Chop Chop
It’s tradition in the toy biz to create a limited-edition gift for industry folks who attend a meeting at Toy Fair. Last year for Skylanders, it was a special metallic purple Cynder. This year, the...
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Win 21 Nintendo games. You heard me.
Recently I gave away 21 Xbox 360 games and 21 PS3 games. (These giveaways followed a crazy giveaway of 35 PC game, not to mention 17 t-shirts.) But it has not escaped me that I am missing one more...
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Download the One of Swords Windows Phone app
Click to download the app for free! Through the incredible generosity of Tony Wissler, there is now a Windows Phone app for One of Swords! It’s a mobile portal to the blog, the podcast, and my Twitter...
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Win Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Bruticus
If you are a Transformers toy fan, you probably know that the Transformers Generations line that came out based on the Fall of Cybertron featured updated, in-game versions of the five Combaticons:...
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Win an autographed copy of The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct
I was very fortunate to meet Norman Reedus, star of The Walking Dead and this week’s new release, The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, during Monday’s live Twitter event. He was nice enough to sign two...
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Win 20 Activision PlayStation 3 games
I thought you might like to win 20 PlayStation 3 games, so I have collected 20 PlayStation 3 games to give away. Would you like to win 20 PlayStation3 games? Here are the 20 PlayStation 3 games: Almost...
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Win an autographed DJ Hero turntable & more
In the wise words of the prophets, it’s on and it’s on and on on and on, and the beat don’t stop until the break of dawn. While we haven’t heard much from the DJ Hero franchise since the release of the...
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One of Shirts Giveaway: Large, May 2013
Shirts! Shirts? SHIRTS! You cannot get enough of them, and that’s an order. I have found another batch of shirts to give away, all size Large, from a wide variety of games — games you love, games you...
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The @OneOfSwords 25K Twitter Giveaway
Three years ago: “25K on Twitter? Gimme five months!” LOL… This week, I will hit 25,000 followers on Twitter. I see this as a huge milestone, and one for which I am deeply grateful — that number...
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What I learned from the 25K Giveaway
Huzzah! In gratitude for reaching 25,000 Twitter followers, I promised I would give away one code every five minutes for 44 hours…and I did. It’s over! You can re-follow me again if you bailed! And...
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Black Ops II: Revolution DLC free trial this weekend
If you haven’t picked up the Revolution DLC pack for Black Ops II, this weekend, you get a chance to try before you buy. You might have missed this on the Xbox 360 Message of the Day in the game,...
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How to get Skylanders Giants Sidekicks
Last year, Frito-Lay offered some exclusive Skylanders Sidekicks figures as a special mail-in promotion. They’re doing it again this year but with tiny versions of some Giants characters. Fansite...
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Win 27.1 Activision Xbox 360 games
Time for another instant-software-library giveaway. I have scavenged and scoured the office looking for orphaned games that I can give away. As a result, I have found quite a sizeable stack of Xbox 360...
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Non Sequitur Giveaway: Win odd Activision stuff
When you’ve cleaned out as many Activision storage closets as I have, you find some weird things — and usually, you don’t find a lot of them. I have become the dumping ground archivist for people’s...
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Win Transformers games, toys & more
The Activision offices are being renovated, and that means I’m going to have to pack up my office. My office is…a mess. And really, maybe it’s time for me to share some of my trinkets. For instance, I...
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Win a six-pack of Marvel games for Xbox 360
I’ve mentioned that our offices are being renovated — long overdue, too! — but that meant that the mighty One of Swords Prize Closet(s) had to be packed up. Things are a bit messy, so giveaways have...
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Win a COD Ghosts hat, patch & blank book
November 5 is coming up fast, and I know many Call of Duty fans have placed their Ghosts preorders already. While you wait, wouldn’t it be nice to add a few things for your COD shrine? I think I can...
View ArticleBlack Ops II: 2x XP for all, free DLC trial on XBL
Click here to view the embedded video. Good news — it’s not only a double XP weekend in Black Ops II on all platforms, but it’s also a free trial weekend for the Call of Duty: Black Ops II Uprising DLC...
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Free Origins soundtrack ringtones from Treyarch
In honor of the soundtrack release of the latest Zombies adventure, Origins, Treyarch has also provided a number of ringtones, both the soundtrack and the in-game sound effects. Files and instructions...
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Win 17 Activision PlayStation 3 games
I am still digging out the games that went from the prize closet to big cardboard boxes during the move, and in so doing, I was able to dig up 17 games for PlayStation 3, all new, all sealed, and all...
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Win 18 Xbox 360 games from Activision
More and more games are unearthed the further down into the office moving boxes I go. I’ve found a bunch of Xbox 360 games to give away as a result: Can you spot the titles I haven’t given away before?...
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Win a PS3 bundle of Cabela’s Survival: Shadows of Katmai
Makes a great gift Been a while since I did a giveaway, so let’s do a nice one that might get you out of a holiday gift-giving jam. I have four copies of the PlayStation 3 edition of Cabela’s Survival:...
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Win Activision gaming stocking stuffers
Stockings. They need stuffing. They’re a holiday staple and everybody who has one hanging by the chimney with care expects to find something inside. So I’m putting together a box of gaming stocking...
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Hugh Sterbakov’s Epic PS2 Giveaway 2013
That bastard. Back when OneOfSwords.com was young — in the faraway age of 2010 — we didn’t have much. I wanted to do giveaways, but I didn’t have access to many games. All I could get were older PS2...
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IW offers free Festive Weapon camo in Ghosts
Ho ho oh that’s wonderfully hideous ‘Tis the season to wear a really ugly sweater! In that holiday spirit, Infinity Ward has announced that they’re giving away the Festive Weapon personalization pack...
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