MEE – Marroni Electronic Entertainment

Hey, MEE folks, here we go: The announcement of the winner.

And the winner of the MEE Fable III Questpack Press Kit Giveaway of Wonder and Awe is @cagmanthing, ’cause of his most adroit Twitter RT.  Congratulations, good sir, and we truly hope you enjoy that rare Fable III swagquestpack.

Much thanks, everyone, for entering and please remember: We’ve got something very, very cool coming your way real soon on Xbox Live Indie Games (and maybe a couple other places too) and we hope you’ll be wise and cool enough to stay tuned for the upcoming announcement.  Seriously, folks, please stick around and feel free to hit us up with your comments and questions on Facebook, Twitter @marronigames, our YouTube channel (we’ll have some real nice stuff to check out there soon) and certainly below in the comments section of this here site (and why not get on board with that rad MEE e-mail newsletter while you’re at it, if you haven’t already?)–we definitely look forward to hearing from you all.

One more time, if you didn’t already check ‘em out, you can learn more of the kind of cool shenanigans we’re up to here at MEE by checking out the pieces on Joystiq and Kotaku and that other neato mainstream press we’ve received.

And, since we believe we’re all winners ’round these MEE parts, the first five to comment below and ask politely will earn themselves their very own promo codes for our first game, iBailout!!, the one and only world’s greatest game about the Federal Reserve and fun, fresh Ms. Pac-Man homage.

Thanks a lot, all, glad to have you aboard and please get yourselves ready for the all sorts of awesome we’ve got coming your way next.

Peace.

With tomorrow’s launch of Fable III, we here at Marroni Electronic Entertainment (MEE) have spied a golden marketing opportunity are celebrating by giving away the Fable III Questpack Press Kit.

It comes with said questpack (i.e., bag), a brand new copy of Fable III Limited Collector’s Edition, a custom Fable III controller, the Fable: The Balverine Order novel by Peter David (he wrote some Hulk comics, if you didn’t know) and a nice, little printer-signed letter from Peter Molyneux himself–in short, this giveaway’s giving away some really cool stuff, some of which (far as we’s know) ain’t even available in stores.

How do you enter?  Simple: Just journey to the land of the necronomicon, recite the words ‘klaatu, barada, nikto’, seize the evil book and return it to us. Just like us on Facebook and like the status  on the giveaway on our page’s wall, follow on Twitter and RT our tweet on this here giveaway, subscribe to our cool YouTube channel and/or sign up for the MEE newsletter (see the sign-up box to the right, on the sidebar of this page; we’ve been meaning to fix this, but it should send you a confirmation e-mail, even if it takes a minute or looks like it didn’t, so, with our sincerest apologies, please check for it).  (If you already follow, like, subscribe and/or are signed up for the newsletter, then you’re awesome and just like the post on our Facebook page and/or RT to enter.)  You’ll get one entry in the drawing for the giveaway per like, follow, subscribe and newsletter sign-up, for a total of four possible entries per person.

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Hello, folks, and welcome to the moment you’ve all been waiting for (assuming you were smart, cool and classy enough to give up the contact info and let us market you into oblivion enter our nice and selfless giveaway): The announcement of the winner.

And the winner of the MEE Halo: Reach Briefcase Press Kit Giveaway of Legend is burningGundam85 of the fine Cheap Ass Gamer community, via his sign up to our e-mail newsletter!!  Congratulations, good sir, and we truly hope you enjoy that most rare of Halo: Reach beasts.

Sincere thanks to everyone that entered our humble giveaway and please know that we very much appreciate the opportunity to connect with so many 360 folks.  As we’ve said, we really are hard at work on some very cool stuff that’s (relatively) soon going to be making its way to an Xbox 360 near you.  Also, you can check out the previous features on us at Joystiq and Kotaku to learn more about what we’re up to around here.

Again, we’re very happy to have you all around and very much hope you decide to stay.  Simply put, please make yourselves comfortable around these MEE parts: Share your thoughts and comments here on the site, like and comment on what we’ve got going on our Facebook page, please don’t hesitate to RT something cool we’ve tweeted or hit us with any of your own questions and comments @marronigames and feel free to forward our newsletter on to friends or just shoot us an e-mail sometime.

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In honor of getting hopefully lots of filthy, dirty free publicity today’s launch of Halo: Reach, what seems Bungie’s last dance with the franchise, we here at Marroni Electronic Entertainment (MEE) are giving away that most rare of beasts, the Halo: Reach Briefcase Press Kit.

It comes with, obviously, a nice shiny, silvery Halo: Reach briefcase, a brand spankin’ new copy of Halo: Reach, the custom Reach controller, a folder with very exciting Reach press releases (which will be taken out of the folder to protect the identities and contact info of the nice people at Xbox PR that were kind enough to be down with this giveaway), Halo: The Fall of Reach novel by Eric Nylund (a NYT bestselling series, don’t you know?), and a Reach avatar item download code card.  It’s more limited than the Limited Edition and even more legendaryer than the Legendary Edition, kids, in fact, you can’t even buy it in stores.

How do you enter?  Simple: Just swear to us your firstborn and sacrifice a green eyed, red-headed virgin on the counter of your local neighborhood Starbucks upon the next harvest moon. Just like us on Facebook and like the status  on the giveaway on our page’s wall, follow on Twitter and RT our tweet on this here giveaway and/or sign up for the MEE newsletter (see the sign-up box to the right, on the sidebar of this page; it should send a confirmation e-mail, so it if keeps loading, just check your inbox to see if it’s there and if it’s not, please let us know here in the comments).  (If you already follow, like us and/or are signed up for the newsletter, just like the post on our Facebook page and/or RT to enter.)  You’ll get one entry in the drawing for the giveaway per like, follow and newsletter sign-up, for a total of three possible entries per person.

Oh, and you’ve got just about 72 a lot of hours to enter, with the giveaway entry deadline this Friday, September 17th at 11:59 PM EST, sharp Monday, September 20th 12:00 PM EST, sharp (really, we mean it this time).  (We’ve still got the entries rollin’ in, had/have(?) some intermittent server issues and we’re just a teensy bit greedy too.  Hey, we’re indie and when the teat of opportunity knocks, we open the door and get to milkin’ (please don’t hold the previous statement against us; we simply can’t help ourselves/we blame society).  We hope to select and announce the winner later that Monday, so please stay tuned and check back sometime then to see who the lucky sir or madam is, if, in fact, it’s not you; in which case, there’s always seppuku, am I right?)

And, what the heck’s a MEE?  Well, we’re only the creators of iBailout!!, the world’s greatest game about the Federal Reserve (yes, that Federal Reserve) and nice and most loving and innovative Ms. Pac-Man homage, of course.  Our next game(s) may just be making their way to a 360 near you relatively soon too.

Hope you folks enjoy and please spread the word if you like the cut of our Halo: Reach Briefcase Press Kit givin’ away jib.

Thank ya’s and hit the jump for the rest of the pics.

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That’s right.  Just posted a brand spankin’ new blog on Gamasutra:

Give No Quarter: The New-School Arcade Experience

21st century arcades live in the phones in our pockets and are downloaded onto our HD consoles. Come along in-depth on the design of iBailout!! and analyses of other recent arcade titles as we discover the new-school arcade experience.

No jokin’ in that there description and much thanks to Aaron Biggs of the D’s premier underground hip-hop crew, United States of Mind, for hooking up such nice photos and a quality graphical treatment.  You already learned of the satire and meaning of iBailout!!, now please take a look at its gameplay design.

Also, we had another nice, quick iBailout!! review a few weeks back.   Scroll down to the July 21, 2010 entry and you’ll find these great words: “A simple, well-designed homage to a true classic.”

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