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Free Stuff Friday - Epic PAX '09 Swag Bags

PAX '09 Swag Bag grand prizeThis year's 6th year of Penny Arcade Expo was epic in many ways. It took over the entire Washington State Convention Center and managed crowd control a bit more effectively - though they still didn't get everyone into the major events or solve the capacity problem by piping the Friday keynote and other overflow sessions into a satellite auditorium - say, on that giant screen in the cavernous queue room! Also, and most important for you, they nearly drowned attendees in swag. We picked up enough for two bags, so that's just what we'll give away!

The grand prize winner (aka first number drawn) will win the massive bag containing the following:

  • Games: Lord of the Rings Online Mines of Moria Complete Edition, Hello Kitty MMOG (free to play) and Aeria Games Power Collection (several games free to play including Shaiya and Dragon Sky)
  • T-shirts: The Beatles: Rock Band, Wet, Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles, Serious Sam HD, Brink, Intel "No Camping" and the orange-rageous blabbelon.com
  • Posters: Borderlands, Wet, Rogue Warrior, 'Splosion Man and Scrap Metal
  • Comics: Star Wars: The Old Republic, Dead Space Extraction and Spyborgs
  • Codes: Xbox Live 48-hour trial, PAX '09 Xbox 360 avatar t-shirts, Need for Speed: Shift Endurance Race, League of Legends beta key and limited edition skin code and Fallen Earth limited edition brass goggles
  • Stickers: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, RockStar logo (huge and small version), Beaterator, Rock Band instruments, various League of Legends and more
  • Lanyards: Behemoth Games, God of War and Uncharted 2
  • Various pins including Serious Sam
  • PAX '09 Official "Instruction Manual"
  • Ratchet & Clank inflatable wrench
  • Intel shoulder bag
  • Dragon Age: Origins inflatable sword
  • Two Magic: The Gathering Alara Reborn booster packs
  • Scrap Metal toy car
  • Faunasphere mousepad
  • Deca Sports 2 sweat band
  • Promotional offers, ads and all kinds of other small trinkets including a cool Katamari Forever lenticular card
The runner up gets a subset of these items including all of the games and comics listed above, Brink t-shirt, Dragon Age: Origins inflatable sword, Scrap Metal toy car, Katamari card and one Magic: The Gathering Alare Reborn booster pack plus lots of other stuff we picked up that would take forever to list out. Really, the second bag is pretty much overflowing with goodies. Suffice it to say, receiving either one of these bags is the next best thing to actually being there!
To enter:

Simply post a comment on this page. Say whatever is on your mind as long as it's not an ad or profane. Be sure to read the Sweepstakes Rules to ensure you are eligible to win and don't get disqualified by double-posting or forgetting to provide an e-mail address.

You may also want to white list this domain; we've had several would-be winners lose out because they never responded to their prize notification! If you use TypeKey/TypePad, be sure your e-mail address will be shared. No e-mail address, no prize. (Don't worry, no one else will see it - and we'll only use it to contact you if you win.)

Note that unless you're an authenticated poster who has been active on the site and marked as trusted, your comment will NOT appear immediately. It will go into a queue for me to approve, which I'll do several times a day (except the first weekend, where comments may not be approved until sometime late on Sunday). Do NOT double-post. We'll extend the entry period for this until 5:01 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, September 17 to ensure you have plenty of time to enter and verify your entry was posted.

We also sometimes give away unannounced Instant Win prizes. Here are a few tips since this can happen at any time. (We are long overdue - and have lots of extra PAX swag lying around!) 1) Follow Gamewatcher on Twitter. Before we post the next Free Stuff Bonus - Instant Win, we'll give you a fair warning tweet. 2) Subscribe to our RSS feed and set it to check for updates frequently.

We continue to stock up on cool goodies for Free Stuff Friday - and we will keep doing so as long as there's enough response, even if we continue to lose money on this site. So tell your friends about this! Hey, if we get bigger, so will the prizes that YOU could win!

While you're at it, post comments wherever you see something interesting. Also, if you get a game code you don't need or have some other cool game-related prize you want to donate, we'd be very grateful (we pay for most of this stuff ourselves!).

Check back each Friday to see what's next.

Comments (196)

1. archangelreb:

Hey I'm the first from CAG!!!

2. Mad D:

That's a great amount of swag.

3. Akari:

Oh wow... I want that Resident Evil shirt. If someone else wins, let me have the shirt! :D

4. Dunvane:

Living in Tennessee can be very frustrating because of how far away I am from things like PAX... especially with a 6-month old son!

5. Greg A.:

PAX sounds like it was a blast (minus the flu outbreak). I wonder if next years PAX East will be a lesser PAX, or just as big as the original?

6. floormat:

oooo swag. entered!

Oh and if anyone is wondering you can actually win this. I have won this contest twice. I wonder how often I can win? or will i win too much and get banned... ekkkk!!!

7. Charlie:

awesome swag, would be a great addition to any game collection

8. Matt Holt:

Ah, PAX one of those places I'll probably never make it to...no matter how much I want to.

9. Bigandtasty:

PAX sounds awesome. Can't wait for Mass Effect 2, Scribblenauts, Borderlands...

Also, they were giving away LotRO? That's pretty big...and pretty scary to me if I get the prize =p

10. Will:

Just found your site, very good stuff!

11. Ben:

I hope I can make it out to PAX next year!

12. Phillip Driggers:

2 Awesome bag of goodies, hopefully I will be one of the lucky 2

13. Kat:

Wow...whatever is on my mind? I have never been to PAX, but I've been to SDCC and would love to go again next year. Swag from SDCC is super great, and the con has such a wide range of things to explore.

14. dtcarson:

Nice! I haven't been able to make it to PAX the last couple years...although with this year's apparent added bonus of illness, the cloud has a silver lining.
Hoping the East Coast version becomes reality.

15. Jared:

Oi! I wish I could've made it to PAX this year!

16. Daniel:

Wow, that is some cool swag. It always amazes me the cool and crazy swag these companies come up with.

17. FatmanOSU:

Now that is some serious swag.

18. jerajdai:

Hello Kitty MMORPG??? I'm officially quitting my day job now...

19. Hydrox:

Good lord! This looks uber sweet! I wish I were there to get my own. :(

20. Raul Payes:

Wow I wish i Could make it to PAX. I am so gonna try and make it it to PAX East next year.

21. Kyle:

There some good stuff there. Thanks you the contest.

I wish PAX wasn't all the way across the states, it would be nice to have one here on the east coast.

23. Chris:

In for the win.

24. Eliazar:

There is some coll stuff there, I wish I could have gone to PAX :(

25. Xycury:

Nice list of goodies, I'm trying to get the wife to go to Seattle to go to one of these PAX events but so far it's a no :( Won't stop me from bugging her every year though.

26. Spawn622:

I'd love to win. All this stuff looks really awesome.

27. Curtis:

Awesome collection of stuff. You guys must have had a blast; incidentally, did either you or GrrlGotGame get the chance to play Dragon Age or Mass Effect 2? I'd be interested to hear your impressions.

28. pdwayne:

Awesome SWAG Pack! Would love to win. I have a few SWAG items you all could have if your interested: Metroid Trilogy poster, bass pedal, Xmen: Wolverine tshirt, Madworld stickers, etc.

29. Jason Mackowiak:

I wonder how many people that went to PAX 09 are planning to start ebay accounts in the next week or so. I would give most of it away to my gamer friends and keep the games for myself.

30. Eric:

Wow! Fantastic! I couldn't get my passport early enough this year, and didn't make it >

*crosses fingers*

31. RiffRaff:

If I win I'm having inflatable sword versus inflatable wrench fights until Christmas.

32. Dann:

finally a chance to get all the swag minus the PAX swineflu

33. Diad:

Hi,

Heard about this place from Cheapassgamer.com
I'm amazed at the amout of things that they gave away at the expo! It is also really nice of you people to pass it on. Pay it forward!

9-11
Lest We Forget

34. JJ:

Wow, that's an awesome goodie bag. Wish I could've gone... Maybe next year. :-)

35. jax sedrin:

I know the word "awesome" has been used several times already, but I can't help it... Awesome!

36. g-man:

Let's do this thang! Woo. :)

37. Rob:

that's some cool swag!

38. darth007:

Swag is awesome.

39. eugaet:

Sweet, definitely want in on this drawing. I'll have to make sure to spray it all down w/ Lysol if I win, though.

40. Paula Hafner:

I found you off of Twitter. I love Twitter!

41. Andrew:

That's quite a pile! Looks awesome!

42. Mirpkered:

This is one of the biggest swag packs I've ever seen! So cool... pick me please...

43. Armando:

great prizes this week, thanks gamewatcher

44. Phil:

A big bag of SWAG! Swagging!

45. Brian M:

Wow, what a sweet goodie bag. Awesome contest!

46. Ryan:

Nice! Always wanted to go to PAX.

47. waywardchemist:

You really want to know what's on my mind? That's kind of random and a little bit dangerous. I mean, you don't know me, I don't know you. My mind could be full of disturbing thoughts that would give kittens nightmares about clowns for years to come. It's not, but it could have been.

48. Jesse Torres:

coooooooooool

49. Mr. Q:

Came from CAG to win the swag.

50. Matt:

Looks great, i'm in.

51. Marvin:

Thats a lot of swag. Count me in! Thanks for doing this, love FSF!

52. Arthur:

Too much good stuff :0

53. Acaed:

Oh man, I wanted to go to PAX SO much this year--good thing I didn't though, with the H1N1 going around. But the swag bag from PAX would be a true treat!

*crosses fingers*

54. Underd0g:

That's a spiffatasic haul I really hope I can win this one. Everything in there I would love to have. Also, good job collecting all that swag, it sure will make someone uber happy.

55. Josh:

sweet, hope i get it

56. Onyx Primal:

I don't care which package I win as long as I get a Dragon Age inflatable Sword! :)I'm a sucker for inflatable weapons from awesome RPG developers. Thanks as always.

57. jdkay20:

Can I has Swag Bag?

58. Jubee:

Nice mountain o' swag.

59. Brad:

in to win

60. Tony M:

Pax was awesome.

61. Brandon:

That looks awesome. I'll be glad to win that!

62. AntOnee:

So much good shtuff. The coolest of it probably has to be that inflatable sword though.

63. Mike:

wow that's a lot of swag O_O

64. J Garry:

School (and money) has kept me from PAX for two years now. Here's to hoping I can make it someday.

65. Brian K:

Fantasic giveaway! Thanks for the contest.

66. Deadbodyman11:

Yeah, thats a lot of awesome swag. I really wish I could have gone this year.

67. Elena L:

t-shirts good

68. Clank:

Holy shatner! That's insane! I want, I want!

69. JR:

Awesome! Hope I win!!!

70. CD6405:

WOW, that's a bunch of stuff in the grand prize.

71. Warbux:

Holy Tits! Its a pinata full of awesomeness!

72. adthree:

i'm still getting over pax1n1 slowly, another swag bag would help cure me along quite nicely.

73. swede33 :

WOW! That is an insanely epic prize! Can't believe you are being nice enough to give all that away! Thanks so much; hope I win!

74. Steven S.:

Awesome.

75. Nebenatir:

Another CAG here! Seattle is too far away from Va...

76. TN:

Goody bags..lol I'd be happy with just the 48 hour trial

77. Visc:

Are we guaranteed these are swine-flu-free?

78. Jared R:

Those be some mighty fine swag bags ye' got there! I be takin' off your hands... Urrrhhh.... Takin' them off your hands!? Yea, that sounds a lot less violent! That is, if I can roll a natural 20! No small feat for an old Captain these days! So you better watch your back other contestants, if ye don't... Ye might just find a knife in it!

79. Roger:

nice i wouldn't mind winning some of these =D

80. Ash Patterson:

Katamari Forever!

81. GenDV138 :

Thanks for the giveaway!

82. twztid13:

put me in the contest, please.

83. Ryan:

Nice site! I found your contest through CAG!

84. Jon:

Would've been cool to go to PAX. Thanks for this opportunity.

85. Steve:

Wow this is awesome! I haven't gotten a chance to go to PAX being on the East Coast.

86. Budz:

Man, I wish I was there! Maybe I could stop by when PAX hits Boston next year.

87. Joe:

Wow awesome swag!

88. Nathaniel Wedgington Hornswaggle III:

I just got Uncharted today. Now I can be part of the in crowd!

89. George:

Oh how I wish I coulda gone to PAX

90. thedrknss48:

Nice swag bag, hope I win!!

91. Ian:

ohhh.... I want that Hello Kitty MMOG!

92. David Powell:

This looks awesome. One of these days I'm going to have to go to PAX, I live within driving distance of it...

93. yossarian:

you are really giving away this awesome bag of goodness? wow! i want a piece of that,

94. Myzteryz:

Lots of good stuff at PAX this year. Seems like you guys had a blast.

Sign me up for this swag :D

95. Temporal:

Sweet! MTG boosters! I got some ComicCon swag - didn't make it to PAX, so here's hoping to win this... (from CAG, btw)

96. Ian Raver:

Awesome swag, I'd love to check out PAX one of these years!

97. Zache:

Awesome Swag. Kind of wish I was able to attend though.

98. Oscar Nhan:

I wish I could go, maybe next year

99. Toshi FUmayaki:

Awesome

100. AzN Renegad3:

I hope I win so I can turn my swag on! lol

101. razorace1 :

I haven't won a Free Stuff Friday since the 1st PAX swag bag. It think it would be fitting for me to win again. Of course, now if I win, what would people think?

102. Art:

Pretty cool swag!

103. Alex Foster:

I can haz?

104. thelonepig:

Seeing all of this makes me wish I'd taken the time to actually attend PAX.

105. dwb6 :

really wish i could have gone

106. vdex34:

DO WANT! That looks like some awesome swag. Wish I could have gone to the expo, maybe next year.

107. Chris O'Sullivan:

Great prize pack, gotta enter! Also gonna follow you on Twitter. :)

108. Fritter:

Wow, that's a lot of swag...I would be happy to take it off your hands for you :)
It is pretty nice of you to give away all this stuff xD

109. Alan:

Couldn't make it to PAX, so getting some swag would definitely make up for it. Thanks for the awesome contests!

110. Gamal :

That's an incredible list! Best of luck to everyone!

111. Christopher Ziemer:

I'm pretty jealous I didn't get to go, but maybe the fact that I don't have swine flu right now makes up for it! :-)

112. BowserK:

Come on mang, pick me, please. lol!

113. rapfan211:

Man it would be cool to win these bags

114. nodough:

wish i could have gone to pax

115. David:

Great selection of swag. Stellar. Uber. And awesome.

116. Emmanuel:

Nice collection of swag. Here's hoping I win.

117. JaseDakota :

I'd love to win all that stuff! I really wish I could have gone, even with the threat of the swine flu! lol

118. Nick:

Damn wish I could of gone out to Washington; awesome stuff.

119. LoganDX:

Ratchet and Clank inflatable wrench? So need, so want! Cag4life!

120. Spencer:

This is what I'd like to call hardcore. Good luck everyone!

121. Chris Hranj:

Holy crap i wish i could get to PAX. Id love to win this stuff

122. The Hitman:

Hook me up with that swag!

123. Caleb:

I've always wanted to go to PAX. Looks fun, swine flu or not.

124. RAY16:

This would be a rather awesome pack of nerdstuffs to win. Put my name into the hat.

125. chakan:

I was going to go to PAX for the first time this year, then the economy took a nosedive. I'm holding out hope for next year, and hoping for some swag to ease my disappointment!

126. Jon:

Here we go again :D. Still haven't won yet but I would love to win this week. I really want that Beatles RB Shirt!!!! If you can just give that away I would be soooo happy :D. Thanks for the contest once again. :D

127. Clairvoyant:

Whoa, some nice stuff there! Lots of cool stuff.

128. Steve Davey:

I went to PAX in 08 but wasn't able to go this year. Bummer!

129. Dean M:

Thanks for the chance to win, I love collecting gaming items/swag & I never get to go to any of type of these events.

130. CrunchbiteNuva:

My god... this is uber Obama (apparently means cool or awesome lol)

131. Nick:

wow some of that swag looks awesome! count me in!

132. sniping_dreamer:

All...those...swag...o_o

133. Larry Perlman:

DANG! This prize is kick-ass. Especially the magic cards, borderlands poster, and the codes. Thanks for a chance for the those who aren't lucky enough to go to PAX to get the sweet swag.

134. Tim:

Unfortunately, I can attend neither PAX nor PAX East. I live pretty much in the middle of both events. I wonder why they won't make one for my town. PAX: In The Middle Of Freakin' Nowhere.

135. DrPants PhD:

Sounds cool to me

136. happy1046:

Another week. Another entry. Another non-win?

137. Zanpakuto :

Amazing prize package! I hope I win!

138. Adrian:

I really wish I could've made PAX this year =/

139. Will:

Oh god, I would kill a man for a Borderlands poster, on top of all that other cool swag.

140. stealthcat:

Cool beans, I want to win!

141. kratos1010:

Nice! I want to give this one a shot.

142. Megan:

Looks like you got a lot of cool stuff! Didn't get to go to PAX, so this could be a great prize. :)

143. Blissskr:

Gotta love goodie bags.

144. EBK:

Looking at all that swag makes me wish more conventions would come around the east coast. Even the upcoming PAX East is a bit far from me.

145. JonP:

From CAG.....mad props to you for giving this fine swag away.

146. S0uthard:

Winning this stuff would be quite awesome.

147. Dan S:

Soy de CAG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

148. Ryan:

How did you ever carry that much stuff out?

149. DirasyajX:

I got swag so pick me lol.

150. gabe:

Wow all this swaag looks amazing!

151. PsEG:

I've wanted to go to PAX again since attending in 2005, and the amount of swag at this year's PAX only made my inability to attend more excruciating. I'd love to win a bunch of this swag!

152. JT:

Awesome.

153. Philip:

Hello Kitty!!! Must....Get....Hello....Kitty.... :D

154. Peter:

I like that Serious Sam shirt...actually, I want it all.

155. Jay ITFC:

Loads of PAX swag, would love to win!

156. Da Ke:

Oh I just can't wait to get free

157. Gordon Gibson:

very cool swag from PAX, would look nice in my lair.

158. Dustin:

I'm here form CAG

159. Llanwar:

Hopefully you got a swine flu sample in there, too, so I can win the full experience.

160. Porpoise King:

PAX without the swine flu ;D

161. Christian Mason:

I would love to win.

162. Dennis:

damn nice, i want to win,

163. James Campbell:

me want win

164. bluem00se:

I'd love to win this!

165. BloodEdge:

OOoh Hello Kitty MMO I want so I can be like Butters!. The other stuff is neat too.

166. BloodEdge:

OOoh Hello Kitty MMO I want so I can be like Butters!. The other stuff is neat too.

167. SleepyKlown:

I wont!! Hello Kitty FTW

168. Darklighter:

Oh man, best free stuff Friday ever! I want. xD

169. Greenfire999:

Oooo Look at all the awesome prizes!

170. JarJar:

I wish I could go to PAX. The swag bag is awesome.

171. Hien N:

Oh ah, it's been a while since I been to this site - busygamersnews, aha, I must be busy anyway. Awesome swag bag! Enter me in...

172. $hady:

$hady from CAG here.

I like your site and i'm jealous you got to PAX but I liked reading about it.

I'm going to the Boston one next year, wooo!

Thanks for the site, I'm a busy gamer! :P

173. Daniel:

Since I've never been ot PAX, this would be awesome to have.

174. Jesse:

wow amazing stuff, in it to win it!

175. Cybolt:

I think it's awesome that conventions like PAX have so much swag to give out. Having been to a few conventions myself, it's always cool when you are able to get free stuff or merchandise in promotion of their products.

176. oasis:

PAX... my long-awaited dream. Pity about the swine flu

177. mowmow:

wow thats alot of swag , cant wait for pax to come to east coast

178. juvo:

Awesome swag; please excuse my drool.

179. Justin Tholl:

This would be AWESOME!

180. mr.me:

Awesome swag bag!

181. Dayna:

Wow this would be amazing to win! Look at all that swag!

182. Toxic_Punch:

Dang, look at all that cool stuff
entered =)

183. Nick Norman:

I'd love me some swag.

184. Graham:

Looks tight! hope i win!

185. Julian:

HOLY CR*P, Thats one sweet grand prize! I've always wanted to go to PAX but winning this would be good enough for me! :D

186. Zack:

I want to get me some swag, please!

187. Ray Lopez:

Nice prizes! BGN Rules!!!!!

188. Rob Green:

Hope I win

189. David:

I will be playing some LOTRO if I win this!

190. Flak:

Swag bag, sounds good

191. Jonathon Spagenske:

This is pretty awesome.

192. sdawg36 :

That's a pretty epic pile of swag, don't know if I'm going to be able to fit it with all in my random video game stuff display, but still hope I win:)

193. SpitFire158:

Nice swag bag. Would love to win this.

194. Gamewatcher:

And the winners are:

Grand Prize: 181. Toxic_Punch
Runner Up Prize: 133. Larry Perlman

Congrats to the winners. Stay tuned for cool Rock Band giveaways(including some Beatles stuff) for the next Free Stuff Friday starting in just a few hours!

195. Jordan Higgs:

PAX
BAG
I
WANT.

:)

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