Make-Fun-of-the-Boxopoly Photoshop Contest

The Challenge: Come up with an image--based on a major publisher's logo, or a box cover, or an ad, or something else--that makes fun of the game industry's lack of innovation, poor business practices, willingness to publish dreck, or whatever else you find amusing.

...how about safe and sane labor practices for the people on whose backs you walk for your millions?--EA_spouse

The Rules: Image must be no larger than 640x480, and provided as a GIF, JPEG, or PNG. You retain all rights to your work, except that you grant us the right to display the image on our site as part of the contest. We reserve the right to reject something that's particularly gross, libelous, or otherwise illegal, but otherwise, pretty much anything goes. Images will be uploaded here.

Take-Two... is facing another inquiry by the [SEC], this time over its stock-options grants. --TheStreet.com

Submit to: Email your image to contest AT manifestogames DOT com (if you want a caption for the image, include it in your email).

Deadline: January 1st, 2007.

Winner will be announced January 3rd, and is entirely at our discretion. Funniness will certaily be one of our criteria.

Prize: Your choice of $100 cash or $200 credit toward purchases at the Manifesto Games site.

Questions are certain welcome in the comments to this post.

Have fun!

Thanks to Katherine Neal for the EA Slaves and Shametari images.

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