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WIN! Awesome Razer StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm peripherals

SUPER-IMPORTANT UPDATE-TYPE STUFF: This competition is closed, and no new entries will be applicable. However, we have not yet chosen winners, the reason being that there isn’t enough time in the day to get anything and everything in our to-do list done. Which is really just another way of saying OMG MAGAZINE DEADLINE = FLAT PANIC. Really, we’ve not had time to read through the fan fiction below as of yet. Apologies for the delay, but we will select and announce winners soon. Thanks for all your patience!

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm is out in March! That makes March one of the most important months of this year for us here at NAG, because we still regularly play multiplayer ladder matches in Wings of Liberty. And by “regularly play”, I mean we frequently (embarrassingly) get annihilated by anonymous people on Battle.net who seem to spend every waking hour frantically clicking away at StarCraft. It’s a bit depressing really, but we love it.

Anyway, Razer is equally excited for HotS, because it means they get to launch a new range of licensed peripherals for you to throw money at. And they’ve kindly given us a stack of them to offer you the chance to win.

Head past the break for rules and other purple Zerg stuffs.

There are three Razer peripherals in question: the Banshee headset, Marauder keyboard and Spectre mouse. Razer has provided us four of each (the total value of it all is R9,988), which we would love to give to twelve lucky readers. To keep things in theme and make this competition interesting, what we’d like from you is a piece of StarCraft fan fiction. Now, we’ve only got two rules: firstly, entries must be comprised of no more than 250 words, and secondly – and this one’s mighty important, because this is the Internet after all – AVOID THE GROSS STARCRAFT EROTICA, YOU FILTHY HUMAN. For reference of what’s not acceptable, go read anything at all on fanfic.net. In essence, don’t be weird, and try to keep your short stories penis-free.

For now, let’s say you have until Monday the 4th of March to submit your entries in the comments section below this post. Then, at the competition’s end we will select our twelve favourite stories and randomly assign them their prize of one of the three peripherals. We’d like to also request your help to filter out the best stories by voting for those you like most: this doesn’t mean that the highest-voted entries will win, but it’ll certainly help in getting them noticed by us.

And that’s it really. There’s a gallery of stuff you could win by being awesomely creative below.

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Posted by Dane Remendes Feb 22, 2013 Last Updated Mar 15, 2013
22 Comments
  • aaaz

    awesome! bring it on NAG+Razer!

  • Uberutang

    That purple will go really well with the blinds in my cave! Please sir can I have some?

  • Shaderrrow

    *SPOILERS AHEAD*

    I looked down on her as she lay there in the table of the med bay.

    “Christ…” said one of the medics “Is that really her?”

    I nodded. She looked drastically different. Her red hair that i had so adored, gone. Replaced with these strange braids. But it didn’t change the fact that it was her. Sarah. Human. The medics still pouring over had told me that there was no telling what sort of damage, physically or mentally. But still it was worth it. If only fir the knowledge that she wasn’t a monster anymore.The fact that I got to shoot Tychus made this small victory all the sweeter. I exited the med bay, leaving the doctors to their work. I desperately needed a smoke. As the the blasted thing lighted i though back to Zeratul’s words. The old bastard better have been right about what he said regarding Sarah. Who know what she would do when… if she regained consciousnesses.

    As my lungs burned with the usual sweet smoke, i lamented the losses and victories of the raiders thus far. I’d made it clear to them that any and all of them were free to go any time they wished. No one was forced to be here. Yet not one had disembarked, even thought their commander had a reputation as a drunken fool. You had to admire that. I couldn’t help but wonder if the presence of the zerg queen would change that.

    END

  • Marius Nell

    There she stands. Sarah Kerrigan , our leader, our mother.
    After reuniting the splintering Zerg tribes she brought us back together.
    And now it comes to this.
    One final assault on on those that stand between us and domination.

    She steps onto the battlefield to rally her troops:

    “Two years ago the battle rained on the wings of their liberty.
    But we stood in their way.
    Eradicate them, The Virus, the disease is what they called us.
    But we stood strong.
    One life, one breath.

    As millions we move as one
    We are the heart of the swarm.”

    We are Zerg… What a rush.

  • Otacon

    “I can hear them. They’re getting close”, I thought to myself. I ran out the underground war room and took to the exit tunnel to the surface. When I finally got to the front line, the feint rumble that had first alerted me to their arrival was no longer subtle.

    The Rampaging horde that was the swarm advanced on our position like a rabid tidal wave of death and destruction. The screams of the creatures were so horrid
    it was as if someone had taken a knife and stabbed it into the very soul of my
    being. The fear that was creeping over me was like death himself was pulling me
    into the abyss.

    But fear had no place with a marine.

    I picked up my rifle, gave the order for the tanks to siege up and shouted, “Lock and load men! It’s time to get into the war!” The swarm was almost in range now, my senses were heightening, the will to fight was in my bones, I was ready.

    The voice of a terrified marine uttered next to me, “General Warfield, what are we going to do? There’s too many of them!” I could see in his eyes that he had lost all
    hope. But for a marine, surrender, to the enemy or to oneself, was never an option. I rested my hand on his shoulder and said, “We’re gonna kill em all, and let whatever bug loving god they have sort them out.”
    “Open fire!”

    • Otacon

      Just before the competition ends, Id just like to add, that if my story is chosen,I could really use the headset :)

  • Shaun Mackintosh

    “Sir, I know you want to believe it’s true but that’s not the Kerrigan you once knew.” I whispered urgently.

    Jim hadn’t left the med bay since Kerrigan was brought onboard. She hadn’t woken after her encounter with the xel’naga artifact and I had to admit that I preferred she didn’t. Even if she was no longer the queen of blades, she was still dangerous and Jim would not or could not see it.

    “So you think I should have just left her fate in Tychus’ hands? You think I should have let Mengsk abandon her again?” Jim retorted.

    Tychus’ death was the most recent cruelty life had thrown at him, a lesser man would have been broken. This however was no ordinary man. This was James Raynor. A man who had been to hell and back with barely a scratch on him. Not everyone around him was as lucky. Proof of that lay before me.

    “Jim, not even an ancient alien device can turn back the clock on something like this. How do we know she won’t simply kill us all the moment she wakes up?” I concerenly asked.

    “Dammit Matt I still don’t have any answers! Just get us into orbit and away from this hell!” Jim shouted angrily. The stress, fear and anger finally taking it’s toll on a battered soul.

    “Yes Sir.” I sighed with resignation.

    I feared what would come. We had stolen the heart but this heart still very much belonged to the swarm.

    END

    aaaand scene! Do we get bonus points for having exactly 250 words? :D

  • Johannes

    They found him. Tunnelled up from under the floor. Smelt his
    blood oozing out of him. He heard and saw the dark silhouette of a creature, a
    monster out of his worst nightmare. It hissed heavily and began to drag his
    body to the hole in the floor. He was screaming for help but there was no one
    left to help. The Zerg wave had swept all resistance away.

  • Bigdave87

    My men they fall around me.
    A Zerg trap we did snare
    Their faces soaked with terror
    The scent of ozone fills the air.

    The Zerg they now surround us
    Our ammo bleeds out fast
    My hands and feet are heavy
    These words shall be my last.

    Their toothy now grins flood me
    My time, it passes quick
    Bullets rip through flesh and bone
    Until my gun sounds BANG…BANG…Click.

    My gun has sung its final song
    It now weights heavy in my hand
    I scan the field around me
    And alone I now stand.

    My mind becomes crystal clear
    I know just what to do
    I grab the grenade beside me
    And pray for will to see it through.

    I pull the pin, I’m ready
    My squadrons laid to waste
    And with my final action
    My vengence they will taste.
    BOOM!

  • R4mzy

    They shined so good, Lester was certain he’d catch a glimpse up Annie’s skirt tonight for certain. Hell, he could see the fly up on the dark roof above! There it was, buzzin’ just by his ear. Ever so slow, Lester lifted his hand and- “Shit!”

    Rubbing his stinging ear and feeling slightly foolish, Lester looked up to see Sarge standing up from his desk. He looked ‘round at Lester, “Stop gawkin’ at y’self in that boot and get the buggy runnin’, Lester. Seems there’s a breach in the North fence.” Oh, great, thought Lester, A breach means a patrol, and a patrol means walking, and walking means polishing these boots again.

    Lester got up, then sat back down and started pulling his boots on, “Didn’ we fix that fence yesterday? How come it broke again?” Sarge stepped over to the rack and picked up a pistol and a toolbox, “Naw, Lester. That was the South fence. And how in the hell am I s’posed to know why it broke? Now tie yer damn laces and get movin’.”

    Finished with his laces, Lester got up and walked out of the small structure that was their post on the outskirts of a Mar Sara border colony. His boots crunched on the dry gravel, and Sarge yelled from the door, “Check the flashlight’s batteries is fresh! I ain’t repairin’ fences in a flickery light again, y’hear? And don’t think ‘bout changin’ that music!” Lester sighed, and trudged back to fetch some batteries.

    Fin!

    We should all know what follows for Sarge and Lester…

  • http://www.facebook.com/alex.rowley.549 Alex Rowley

    There once was a marine named Raynor

    his girlfriend turned into a monster which was ermmm….. a painer?

    Kerrigan was her name and she got betrayed by the evil lord of the Dominion

    swearing revenge she proved she was no minion

    the Zerg were impressed so they gave her the title of Queen of blades

    Jim heart broken decides to rebel and puts on his cool shades

    leads the rebel alliance to a sort of victory against the evil of the Dominion

    he also wants to cure Kerrigan of her Zerginess, crazy in my opinion

    there are aliens somewhere in this plot

    but to be honest, I really just forgot

    sooo many years later Raynor is drunk and Texan gives him a deal

    work for him and his soul and girlfriend will heal

    up he went to fight the evil lord

    and he freed everyone across the board

    maybe even Kerrigan herself, or so Raynor hoped

    Texan betrayed Raynor and got a bullet for being so doped.

    THE END.

  • Francois Neethling

    “I thought they annihilated you completely.” the Fallen One said
    sinisterly. “We are not such an easy prey.” replied the other being, in an
    almost similar, yet different, voice, “Although the Zerg should be applauded for
    their effort.” “So made you come out of hiding? Or did you just miss my
    company?” The being slowly moved forward toward the Fallen One, “We came to
    clean up our mistakes… and that may include you.” The Fallen One lunged away
    abruptly and shrieked, “How dare you come HERE and make threats like that. I am
    the most powerful being in the universe and control one of the strongest
    military forces ever seen. You will pay for that…” In a blink of the eye, he
    jumped at the other being, wielding a peculiar blue dagger of sorts. But as he
    was about to land a fatal strike, the being simply dematerialised into thin air
    and appeared behind him. “You made the wrong choice. You truly do not
    understand what we are capable of.” the being said as it slowly once again
    dematerialised, “No matter, we shall meet again soon…. Brother…”

    The council sat around the round table, all of their faces
    hidden by darkness. There was an ominous atmosphere, as the air shimmered and
    the being stepped forward into the room. “The message was received as was
    expected. Now it is time that we commence with the plan. It is time that this
    universe once again realises and fears the power of the Xel’Naga.

    END

    And I agree with Shaun Mackintosh!! Bonus points for exactly 250 words! xD

  • Stefan

    The end came in song. It was a surprise ending to his miserable
    life which music has long since abandoned. His life that had once seemed so
    full of promise and ideals when he joined that campus political rally. His life
    that came crashing down as Mengsk’s Cultural Police brutally slammed him into
    the ground and took him away. His life that became torture in that fetid hole
    they threw him into with the rest of the political prisoners.

    Once he had aspired to become a musician. Instead, he became
    a disposable pawn in power armor – a lowly
    marine – the only option left to him after they broke him down completely. His younger days composing music have been replaced by soul-crushingly dull days guarding this remote Command Centre that has not seen any conflict in nine years.

    This morning, the Zerg came out of the sky. There was a
    brief conflict, but his outpost was the first casualty. He barely had time to
    suit up before the flying horror they called a Queen infested the Command
    Centre. He tried to run, they all had, but the building became their prison as
    soon as that thing fused with it. His armor offered scant protection against
    the viral spores corrupting his body and mind. Broken, ultimately beaten, he
    waited for the end. His gaze finally dimmed … and then he heard it. A song –
    the most beautiful and alluring he has ever heard – the welcoming song of the
    Swarm.

  • Jeffery

    A Starcraft version of the intro to “My Immortal” because if you’re going to do fanfic, you have to do bad fanfic!

    Hi my name is Jennifier Vespene Way and I have long
    blue hair (that’s how I got my name) with purple streaks and red
    tips that reaches my mid-back and icy blue eyes like SVC tears and a
    lot of people tell me I look like KErrigan (AN: if u don’t know who she
    is get da hell out of here!). I’m not related to Jim Raynor but I wish I
    was because he’s a major fucking hottie. I’m a Zerg(j/k lolz)

    I have pale white skin. I’m also a Marine, and I go
    to a Marine school called The Barracks in Starcraftland where I’m in the seventh
    year (I’m seventeen). I’m a ass kickin’ chik (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear
    mostly big metal marine armor. I also love Hot Topic and I buy all my clothes from there.

    I was walking outside the Barracks. It was snowing and raining so
    there was no sun(Also, the sun had exploded recently), which I was very happy about. A lot of preps stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.

    “Hey Vespene!” shouted a voice. I looked up. It was…. Tychus Findlay!

    “What’s up Tychus?” I asked.

    “Nothing.” he said shyly.

    But then, I heard my friends call me and I had to go away.

    AN: IS it good? PLZ tell me fangz!

    Chapter 2.

    AN: Fangz 2 bloodyProtozz666 4 helpin me wif da chapta! BTW preps stop flaming ma story ok!

    The next day I woke up in my dorm room. It was snowing and raining
    again. I opened the door of my suspension pod and drank some sustenance liquid from a bottle I had. My suspension pod was black ebony and inside it was hot pink velvet with black lace on the ends. I got out of my coffin and took of my giant Protozz suckzzz t-shirt which I used for pajamas. Instead, I put on a black leather marine aromour , a zergling necklace, combat boots and black fishnets on. I put
    on four pairs of earrings in my pierced ears, and put my hair in a kind
    of messy bun.

    My friend, Gabez (AN: JimmyRayzzz4482 dis is u!) woke up then and grinned at
    me. He flipped his short buzzcut nondescript brown hair with pink streaks
    and opened his forest-green eyes. He put on his “4Gate sucx” t-shirt
    with a black military armor, fishnets and pointy high-heeled boots. We put on our
    makeup (Cammoflage becuz we are fightin! duh!)

    “OMFG, I saw you talking to Tychus Findlay yesterday!” he said excitedly.

    “Yeah? So?” I said, blushing.

    “Do you like Tychus?” he asked as we went out of the Terran raxx common room and into the Base.

    “No I so fucking don’t!” I shouted.

    “Yeah right!” she exclaimed. Just then, Tychus walked up to me.

    “Hi.” he said.

    “Hi.” I replied flirtily.

    “Guess what.” he said.

    “What?” I asked.

    “Well, “Zealot’s are OP” are having a concert in The base tonight.” he told me.

    “Oh. My. Fucking. God!” I screamed. I love ZAOP. They are my favorite band, besides “The zerg stompers”.

    “Well…. do you want to go with me?” he asked.

    I gasped….

    To be continued…

  • Muzak

    It was just another lousy day in sector 2. Why do I always
    have to be put on patrol with Tommy? He is by the far the most irritating
    person to be with on these missions.

    “I’m going to shoot me some Zerg today!” “Shut
    up” I said to him making no effort to hide my irritation. He kept walking
    with a stupid grin on his face as we arrived at the edge of our territory.
    “Hey lets go check out that giant rock” He shouted with so much
    excitement in his voice you would have thought he won the lottery. I let out an
    audible groan and explained to him once again that past the line we were on was
    Zerg territory.

    “Aww, is the little baby chicken” he taunted. I
    punched him straight in that stupid face of his and walked over the line
    towards the rock. I climbed on top of it.
    It smelled awful, before I realised what it was I was thrown what felt like a
    kilometre away next to Tommy. The Ultralisk Roared and charged. Tommy started
    running towards the Ultralisk emptying his pistol and was shouting “FIGHT
    ME”. I couldn’t take it anymore. “TOMMY!” I shouted so loud even
    the Ultralisk stopped and looked at me with shock. “YOUR SHOOTING AT A
    ULTRALISK WITH A PISTOL, HOW DUMB ARE YOU???” “I’m doing my job!” he
    shouted back. While we argued the Ultralisk seemed to lose interest and walk
    off.

  • Muzak

    It was just another lousy day in sector 2. Why do I always
    have to be put on patrol with Tommy? He is by the far the most irritating
    person to be with on these missions.

    “I’m going to shoot me some Zerg today!” “Shut
    up” I said to him making no effort to hide my irritation. He kept walking
    with a stupid grin on his face as we arrived at the edge of our territory.
    “Hey lets go check out that giant rock” He shouted with so much
    excitement in his voice you would have thought he won the lottery. I let out an
    audible groan and explained to him once again that past the line we were on was
    Zerg territory.

    “Aww, is the little baby chicken” he taunted. I
    punched him straight in that stupid face of his and walked over the line
    towards the rock. I climbed on top of it.
    It smelled awful, before I realised what it was I was thrown what felt like a
    kilometre away next to Tommy. The Ultralisk Roared and charged. Tommy started
    running towards the Ultralisk emptying his pistol and was shouting “FIGHT
    ME”. I couldn’t take it anymore. “TOMMY!” I shouted so loud even
    the Ultralisk stopped and looked at me with shock. “YOUR SHOOTING AT A
    ULTRALISK WITH A PISTOL, HOW DUMB ARE YOU???” “I’m doing my job!” he
    shouted back. While we argued the Ultralisk seemed to lose interest and walk
    off.

  • Peter

    Jim surveyed the battlefield around him as he walked back to Warfield’s forward base. Almost 12 hours had passed since the activation of the Xel’Naga artifact, 12 hours after almost all the men under his command had gone up against one of the largest Zerg assaults in history.

    Everywhere he saw, the ground was literally covered with decaying Zerg corpses, many of them still carrying the burns from the artifact’s energy nova. To be honest, there had been many times during the final battle where he had been almost afraid to use it. There wasl no assurance that the Xel’Naga artifact would really return Kerrigan to her human form. In fact, after seeing just a premature energy nova the artifact released that killed thousands of Zerg with a single blow, Jim had been greatly worried that a fully charged blast would be fatal even to Sarah. Still, finding her returned to her human form upon entered the hive, he had been greatly relieved.

    There is still a long road ahead of them. If Sarah really is the key to preventing all this, then Jim knew he would do all in his power to protect her, as he knew once the news about the Queen of Blades’s defeat on Char spreads across the Korpulu sector, there will be billions of people demanding Kerrigan’s head for everything she’s done. But whatever the path will be for them, he knows that they will face it together, the way it always should have been…

  • Peter

    Jim surveyed the battlefield around him as he walked back to Warfield’s forward base. Almost 12 hours had passed since the activation of the Xel’Naga artifact, 12 hours after almost all the men under his command had gone up against one of the largest Zerg assaults in history.

    Everywhere he saw, the ground was literally covered with decaying Zerg corpses, many of them still carrying the burns from the artifact’s energy nova. To be honest, there had been many times during the final battle where he had been almost afraid to use it. There wasl no assurance that the Xel’Naga artifact would really return Kerrigan to her human form. In fact, after seeing just a premature energy nova the artifact released that killed thousands of Zerg with a single blow, Jim had been greatly worried that a fully charged blast would be fatal even to Sarah. Still, finding her returned to her human form upon entered the hive, he had been greatly relieved.

    There is still a long road ahead of them. If Sarah really is the key to preventing all this, then Jim knew he would do all in his power to protect her, as he knew once the news about the Queen of Blades’s defeat on Char spreads across the Korpulu sector, there will be billions of people demanding Kerrigan’s head for everything she’s done. But whatever the path will be for them, he knows that they will face it together, the way it always should have been…

  • Nic French

    Every new marine has to be initiated, that’s just the Terran way. Squadron 23 was no different, we were the best.

    Rumors had spread of this “wonder kid”, a trigger happy youth with an eye for Zerglings, it was just a matter of time before he was among the ranks of the elite marines and putting his reputation on the line. We needed a special kind of task, to test him, make him part of our family.

    Squadron 23 was a breeding ground for Gods among men, and the everyone knew it, so when the kid saddled up for his first mission, everyone had a feeling this one would be a little different. Except, sending him down a Hydralisk hole was a bit much, even for me.

    The men threw words of encouragement and hope in the direction of the youth, with a slight tinge of sarcasm in the air. “There goes another one”, spat my Captain, as the visor of the boy got swallowed up as he dipped below and into the hole. Many good marines didn’t make it passed our initiations, some thought this a waste, we believe its necessary, fear is eliminated from you, should you survive. That’s why Squadron 23 has no equal.

    No-one predicted he would return, and when he did, dragging the head of a Hydralisk, the men knew this one was special, the men knew he was family. Today Jim Raynor became a man. Today Jim Raynor became a legend.

  • Francois Neethling

    Just want to hear quick, has the winners been announced? Or is it still on? (the competition that is)

  • Bigdave87

    Did any one win this?

  • R4mzy

    “I have got to get me one of these.”

    Every Wraith pilot has said those words. The pilot’s that don’t say them simply aren’t Wraith pilots: it’s a way of living as much as it is a position. The high-octane life of a Wraith pilot demands pilots who love it, who crave it, and only those who love it are mad enough to do it. Those who don’t quit, the flyers among them seeking tamer details like Medevac and Battlecruiser positions, and those who force it fail, becoming nothing more than the hushed whispers of regret and shame in Battlecruiser corridors.

    Wraith pilots may repeat the words from time to time, but it’s not the same. The cherry’s already popped, the raven has flown. But there comes a time in the careers of a lucky few when something new comes along, something different and exciting. The raven returns, to take flight again and feel the glory anew. On those rare days the operators at control get to hear what the trainers hear on graduation day, a glimpse of wing and a smattering of sweet red fruit, and the keen-eyed pilots will tell you that the knowing smiles of the faces on the ground are only the merest hints of the grin they wear when they truly say their words again.

    “I have got to get me on of these.” -Anonymous Wraith pilot, on receiving a piece of particularly excellent free gear.

    Thanks NAG and Razer! :D

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