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CONTEST TIME!

I really enjoyed using the Samsung HM3300 NFC enabled Bluetooth headset. It was insanely easy pairing the HM3300 with my Galaxy Note 2, and recently happily discovered it would also pair with a Nokia Lumia 920.

I liked this little headset so much, I want to give one to a lucky reader.

All you have to do is leave us a comment on this post telling us what you two things you wish you could pair using NFC. I’ll go first:

I wish all of my food had NFC tags on it so I could tap them to my microwave/oven to automatically program temperature and cooking time.

We’ll pick one winner randomly. Make sure you use a valid email address as that’s how we’ll be contacting the winners. Only one entry/comment per person please! Entries will be open until 11:59PM Pacific today, and we’ll announce the winner tomorrow (Saturday February 2nd). Contest is open to USA residents only. Apologies, we’ll try and get something international going for a future giveaway.

Good luck!

I’ve said it before. I’m a sucker for tower defense games.

One of my all-time favorite TD games is Defense Grid, and I recently had the pleasure of working with the developers of Defense Grid on their upcoming expansion to the series DG: Containment. I got to meet and record Alan Tudyk (Firefly, Wreck-it Ralph) who is one of my all-time favorite actors.

The folks at Hidden Path Entertainment recently completed a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the sequel to DG, and to celebrate they’re giving us five Steam bundle codes to giveaway for Defense Grid and the two expansions! This bundle includes the Original DG, PLUS the ‘Resurgence‘ expansion AND ‘You Monster‘ where you get to face off against GLaDOS from Portal!

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To Enter

All you have to do is leave us a comment on this post telling us who your favorite video game sidekick is. We’ll pick five winners at random. Make sure you use a valid email address as that’s how we’ll be contacting the winners. Only one entry/comment per person please! Entries will be open until 11:59, Thursday January 3rd, and we’ll announce the winners on Friday.

Many thanks to the folks at Hidden Path for hooking us up! If you guys are fans of terrifically produced indie games, I would HIGHLY recommend checking out their site and blog for more info on DG2.

Now here’s a pic of me with Alan Tudyk.

Good luck everyone!

****UPDATE****

And the winners are:

• Jason: “My father I think, I had a good time playing on the console with him.”
• Tucker: “Jade in Hitman, his voice !”
• Jeff: “Flash the dog from JetPack Joyride! Fun stuff!”
• Randy: “Yoshi from super mario.”
• Dr. Pixel: “Rush from MegaMan is awesome. I love dogs and he’s a killer robot dog! What more could you ask for? “

Congrats! Thanks everyone for entering and commenting!

I will again ask that you check out Hidden Path Entertainment’s site to check out more info on Defense Grid 2! Show them some love!

Have you ever heard the expression, “If you love something, set it free?” Well apparently, Juan hasn’t–or at least if he has, he certainly hasn’t taken it to heart. And though Juan may have had a bit of a problem letting go, Aaron in Tulsa will have no problem welcoming his new LG Optimus G with open arms. We promised all of those who entered our Smartphone Giveaway that we’d be giving away some more free gear very soon…and we weren’t kidding. Intrigued? We hope so. We’ll be featuring tons of CES coverage over the next couple of weeks, and as soon as CES is over, we’ll announce our next giveaway–and we can only hope that Juan will handle the next one with just a tad more grace.

A man can dream, can’t he?

Congratulations Aaron Howk…your Christmas just got a bit more merry thanks to a brand new LG Optimus G heading your way! Thanks again to our friends at AT&T for providing such a fantastic prize, and many thanks to all who entered…and make sure you keep checking back–we’ll be giving away lots of gear throughout the new year. Okay everyone…back to your families–we’ll see you right back here tomorrow.

…and sorry Juan–we told you that you couldn’t keep it!

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Wouldn’t you like to wake up on Christmas morning to find out that you’ve won an LG Optimus G? Of course you would!! Our own Juan Carlos Bagnell gave a full breakdown of the Optimus G in this video, and basically dared you NOT to enter–so we figured his passionate appeal to our readers was definitely worthy of a second posting. As to the giveaway link he points to at the end? Here it is:

YourTechReport’s Happy Holidays Smartphone Giveaway!

It’s a gorgeous phone, and I want to see it go to a good home!

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Get yourself entered to win!

YourTechReport’s Happy Holidays Smartphone Giveaway!

Not that we really need a reason, but today we present yet another edition of the YourTechReport Hangout series.

On the table will be the Galaxy Note 2, Alienware computers, Tech News, and another tease for our Happy Holiday Smartphone Giveaway!

Enjoy!

It’s time to reveal the prize for YTR’s Happy Holidays Smartphone Giveaway!

Our pals over at AT&T were kind enough to hook us up with an LG Optimus G smartphone, and one lucky reader of this blog will be walking away with a new phone before the new year!

LG might not have as much mind share in the states as Moto/HTC/Samsung, but the Optimus G marks LG’s entrance as a manufacturer of premier handsets. The Optimus G was chosen as the hardware build for Google’s Nexus 4.

• 4.7″ 1280×768 IPS+ LCD Screen w/ Gorilla Glass
• 1.5GHz Qualcomm “Krait” Quad-core processor
• 32GB Storage / 2GB RAM
• 2100 mAh battery
• LTE / NFC / DLNA / MHL (for HDMI)
• Support for advanced media codecs DIVX / MP4 / h.264 / WMV

It’s a monster device featuring bleeding edge specs and performance, and you might be the one to peel the stickers off and take it for a ride! Juan had a fantastically hard time not instantly ripping it out of its packaging. If he doesn’t see some entries for this giveaway, he might not be able to restrain himself…

Click past the jump to find out how easy it is to win!

Last week, we announced the first winner of our exclusive LFG Giveaway–and now it’s time to announce our second: @HalGailey. Congrats Hal…you’re going to love your FigurePrints Statue!!

For those of you who’d still like a shot at winning your very own statue of your World of Warcraft avatar, there’s still time left–but you have to head over to LFGComic.com to enter (trust us, you’ll be glad you did). You have until Midnight Pacific this Thursday to enter, and we’ll be notifying our third and final winner early next week. So what are you waiting for? Your chance to win a free FigurePrint (and read a fantastic online comic) is only a few clicks away!

PLEASE NOTE: Twitter has been having some issues as of late regarding the sending and receiving of direct messages, so there may be a slight delay in notifying our winners; when you do hear from us, please get back to us as soon as you can so we can get you information on how to collect your prize as quickly as possible.

In case you didn’t know, last week marked the beginning of our first giveaway exclusively for LFG readers. Looking for Group is one of the best online comics around; and because we’re such fans, we decided to do a giveaway just for its readers. So who is the first winner of a FigurePrints statue of their World of Warcraft in-game avatar? Congratulations @TishToshTesh…you’ve won! We’ll be reaching out in the next few days letting you know how to collect your FigurePrint. There are still 2 statues to give away…and if you’re interested in entering, you’ll have to head over to LFGComic.com (it is, after all, an exclusive giveaway); not only will you be giving yourself a chance for a free FigurePrints statue, you’ll also be treating yourself to a fantastic online comic.

See you next Monday when we announce our next LFG Giveaway winner!