Unlock Xbox games and winners announced

by Dustin Burg { Aug 20th 2007 at 11:30AM }

Major Nelson is back home from his North American mystery tour and so the Doritos team has now officially announced the five winners of the Unlock Xbox contest. The top five XBLA game ideas can be seen over on the official website in all their glory with winning game ideas including psychedelic effects, dinosaurs galore, chip hungry monkeys and some dodge-ball. These five winning entries have already scored their creators some sweet prizes and will now be made into game demos for everyone to try and vote on starting October 29th.

There you have it fanboys, one of these five game ideas will be making it onto the Xbox Live Arcade in the coming months for everyone to download and play. And as a consolation prize for those who submitted an idea that didn't get picked (and are a tad bitter), the Doritos folks are giving away an Xbox 360 bundle every day. See, it's not so bad.

Tags: doritos, unlockxbox, xbla

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

DjDATZ @ Aug 20th 2007 11:40AM

Fucking gay. Contest is US only. Faggots.

Tony @ Aug 20th 2007 11:51AM

Yes, very homosexual.

Ligiod @ Aug 20th 2007 11:53AM

I'm not going to lie...all the winners sound like games that NOBODY would buy. Oh well, here comes another XBLA game that I don't care about!

Mauricio @ Aug 20th 2007 12:02PM

cussing is good and all but thats a little too extreme for my liking.

Tony @ Aug 20th 2007 12:11PM

@3 - They all obviously need more development considerations, but I'm also kind of hoping given these are essentially advertisements that we won't have to pay for them.

I think the music racer concept is pretty solid, honestly.

Mike Bastianelli @ Aug 20th 2007 12:15PM

"Doritos folks are giving away an Xbox 360 bundle every day."
They might be doing that to not piss people off who didn't win.

The only idea that is good is the Rhythm Racing one.. and they spelled the word 'Rhythm' wrong.

The fact is.. 1/5 are good. the rest are unoriginal or ripoffs of other ideas. I saw sooo many ideas that would of been games then the ones they choose. There were even a few party game ideas that looked way WAAAAAY more fun then all the finalist.

Either way.. the contest will probably happen again next year. So I will try another shot at it.

DjDATZ @ Aug 20th 2007 12:19PM

Tony, Doritos is going to want to make some money off it. So they'll charge at least 400 MSP.

biggyrob44 @ Aug 20th 2007 12:46PM

I am very pissed (of coures I thought my idea was the best and should win) but there were ALOT of better, well thought out, time spent games that deserved it. Heck 1 guy just wrote about it and won WTF?. NO MORE DORITOS FOR ME...unless I win the consolation prize HA

Tony @ Aug 20th 2007 12:50PM

I don't really think of it in that way.

To me, they WILL make money off of it by it being free in the sense that it will raise consumer interest and awareness of their products.

We're talking about advertising to a group of people who also simply don't want to be advertised to. They're cynical of anything positive and venomous toward extending payment to things that don't justify it. Expecting this group of people to pay for a download of something that's going to toss Doritos and Frito-Lay branding in their faces would be absolutely stupid. I'm not saying they will not do that (since a lot of companies are so oblivious to these social networking concepts to begin with), but the benefits of charging $5 for this are simply outwieghed by the good publicity that could follow if it didn't cost anything.

I mean, for every one person who wanted to pay, think of the people who will simply walk away with a bad impression of being expected to pay for a Doritos game. I'm willing to bet the latter would be significantly higher.

BK, to me, is kind of another story because they manufactured the discs. If this just shows up as a download, I don't think that's going to be smart business for the long run.