Beaterator and MySpace Music Challenge

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We are happy to announce an exclusive Beaterator contest in partnership with MySpace and IGN. Are you or someone you know a solo artist or member of an up-and-coming band? Think you have the chops to make a hot track using the powerful suite of music-creation tools in Beaterator? If so, head over to beaterator.ign.com to fill out an entry form for the chance to participate. A grand prize of $5,000, your band featured on the homepage of MySpace, and your winning song uploaded to the PlayStation Network is up for grabs. Check out the full details in the press release located below.

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Nick

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Rockstar Games Presents the Beaterator Band Challenge

Competition Offers Artists the Chance to Win $5,000 and Be Featured on the PlayStation®Network

New York, NY – October 5, 2009 - Rockstar Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), is proud to announce the launch of the Beaterator Band Challenge, a competition that will offer the millions of artists and bands on MySpace the opportunity to win $5,000 by creating a track using the song-crafting tools provided by Rockstar Games and Timbaland present Beaterator, the new, revolutionary mobile music-making application available now for Sony’s PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system.

To enter the Beaterator Band Challenge, artists must fill out an entry form at http://beaterator.ign.com. Rockstar Games will choose up to 100 bands and musical artists as semi-finalists and will provide them with a PSP system and a copy of Beaterator, including all the information necessary to create a song using this powerful software. Each semi-finalist that submits a qualifying Beaterator track will be showcased on the contest website, and the MySpace and IGN communities will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite submissions.

The winning artist or band will receive $5,000, have their winning track featured on the PlayStation®Network - which is visited by millions of PlayStation owners every day, and they will also have the opportunity to be featured on the MySpace homepage.

Beaterator, rated E for Everyone by the ESRB, is available now on the PSP and coming this fall on the iPhone™ and iPod® touch. For more information on Beaterator, log onto www.rockstargames.com/beaterator.

For more information on the Beaterator Band Challenge including full contest rules, please visit http://beaterator.ign.com.

I certainly like the $5000 part of this. Maybe it is worth going in for?