We actually had to go through and ban people for getting off topic while voting. If you'd like to discuss what you think of the contest or the prize, fine, but please do that in the contest reminder posts, not in the voting post. Doing that in the voting just gums everything up and makes counting the votes harder. It's not only common sense, but common courtesy.

Another thing: Towards the end of the voting, we got spammed with a ton of votes by commenters who had never commented before. What's even more iffy is that the commenters names were written in a similar pattern — like this "NameName."

We did not count any votes from first time commenters for any finalists and will not in any future contests.

Much love to all who entered — Vader boxart winner, please send an email to kotakucontestATgmailDOTcom to claim your prize. Be sure to include your address. CONGRATS!

Here's the rules: Note which boxart you want to vote for in the comments section directly below by saying which one you are voting for. Voting more than once will cause you to get ban. Putting more than one comment or vote will caused you to get banned. Putting a non-sequitur comment will caused you to get, yep yep, banned.

Voting ends in 24 hours.

We're giving away a copy of Alone in the Dark to one of you reader people. Here's the contest:

Make your own Alone in the Dark boxart. Photoshop is a-okay! Make sure you incorporate "Kotaku" and "New Year's Eve" into your box art, because the deadline for this contest is, you guessed it, New Year's Eve. Send all entries to kotakucontestATgmailDOTcom.

Alone in the Dark [Official Site]

We're giving away a copy of Alone in the Dark to one of you reader people. Here's the contest:

Make your own Alone in the Dark boxart. Photoshop is a-okay! Make sure you incorporate "Kotaku" and "New Year's Eve" into your box art, because the deadline for this contest is, you guessed it, New Year's Eve. Send all entries to kotakucontestATgmailDOTcom.

Alone in the Dark

We're giving away a copy of Alone in the Dark to one of you reader people. Here's the contest:

Make your own Alone in the Dark boxart. Photoshop is a-okay! Make sure you incorporate "Kotaku" and "New Year's Eve" into your box art, because the deadline for this contest is, you guessed it, New Year's Eve. Send all entries to kotakucontestATgmailDOTcom.

Alone in the Dark

Make your own Alone in the Dark boxart. Photoshop is a-okay! Make sure you incorporate "Kotaku" and "New Year's Eve" into your box art, because the deadline for this contest is, you guessed it, New Year's Eve. Send all entries to kotakucontestATgmailDOTcom.

Alone in the Dark

After you answer it remember to send all five questions with all five correct answers (and links) to kotakucontestATgmailDOTcom. You also need to put "Here's Hoping I'm 11th" in the subject line. You *must* do this, exactly as written here, with quotes for your entry to count. Make sure you just read this carefully! And remember, you don't want to be first, you want to be eleventh.

There was even added bold text just to make sure people would actually read the post! But people didn't. Lots of people didn't — instead, they sent along the right answers and links, but put things like "Alone Contest" in the email subject line or forgot the quotes for "Here's Hoping I'm 11th." Scott S. was the eleventh person to do it correctly, but probably like the 50th person to send an email. (The folks who didn't follow the instructions were disqualified as mentioned in the post.) Hit the jump for the answers and links, which I embedded.

Answer 1: Okami sushi (Note: This post is also acceptable for an answer. Scott S. sent both.)
Answer 2: “A game of chess is like a sword fight.”
Answer 3: Waffle House
Answer 4: Carefully
Answer 5: “Tyler Stay Scared George Romero”

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Hit the jump for the last question and GOOD LUCK:

Question 5: What did the horror film director write on the Xbox 360 game that was influenced by one of his most famous films?

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Tomorrow is the last question. It will go up at noon and hopefully will not be late. Also, anyone who puts answers below in the comments or elsewhere will be banned and mocked. Hit the jump for the third easy question — and the second and first ones, in case you missed 'em.

Fourth Question: How will we treat the steering wheel?

Previous: Third Question, Second Question and First Question

Also, anyone who puts answers below in the comments or elsewhere will be banned and mocked. Hit the jump for the second easy question — and the first one, in case you missed it.

Third Question Where did Fahey meet up with two former University of Georgia students that went on to create a parody of the chidlren's books?

Here are the previous questions: Question 1 and Question 2.

Also, anyone who puts answers below in the comments or elsewhere will be banned and mocked. Hit the jump for the second easy question — and the first one, in case you missed it.

Second question: What did a well-known recording artist say a game of chess is like?

Here's the first question for those who let it pass them by.

Also, anyone who puts answers below in the comments or elsewhere will be banned and mocked.

First question: What uncooked food can Weekend Editor Owen wolf down near his other job?

Remember, you are only sending us your answers this Friday, not before and not after. FRIDAY.
Alone in the Dark [Official Site]