When I first got this press release, I wasn’t very happy. After all, it was only six months ago I packed my bags and left New England to come to LA and now I find out that there is going to be a gaming show with celebrities being taped in my old backyard. Massachusetts and New Hampshire were just short drives for this Connecticut native. But things aren’t always as they appear at first glance.

A combined effort of Blind Sheep Studios and GameFlak, Celebrity Gaming Challenge takes the term celebrity and stretches it a little thin. Right now, the only thing known about the two celebrity team captains is that they will both be members of the New England Patriots. And the shooting will take place in October, right in the middle of the NFL season.

Now it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that these celebrity team captains probably aren’t going to be the cream of the Patriots crop. But none the less, I give them credit for their ingenuity and clever use of technicalities of the English language.

The fine folks over at La La Land Records recently released a fantastic 3-disc collection of music from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Focusing on the music of Dennis McCarthy, Jay Chattaway and a few choice guest composers, the set features the music of some all time classic episodes. You can check out are full review on this week’s film score friday, but right now you have the opportunity to win a copy of this limited edition set.

All you have to do is follow us on twitter @TheFlickcast and @reply us with your favorite Starfleet captain and why. Now that covers a wide array of captains from the movies, TV shows,even the books, comics and video games is fair game so don’t hold back.

After this weekend we will take all the responses and pick the winner, good luck!

Are you a big fan of USA’s Psych, starring James Roday and Dulé Hill? Then you’re going to want to hop on over to our Twitter all day tomorrow as we host another Twitter Contest for an awesome prize pack to coincide with Wednesday night’s Psych season finale.

From USA:

Don’t miss the most shocking PSYCH finale ever as a killer targets Shawn using scenarios from classic Hitchcock films. Ally Sheedy guest-stars in Psych’s season finale, directed by James Roday — “Mr. Yin Presents” — premiering Wednesday at 10/9C!

Enter to win a Psych Prize Bag filled with:
–        Psych Season 3 DVD Set
–        Psych Talking Bobbleheads
–        Psych Book: Call of the Mild
–        Psych Pineapple T-Shirt
–        Psych Pineapple Stress Toy

Be sure to check our Twitter Feed all day tomorrow to see the Psych trivia question that will give you a chance to win! Also, don’t forget to catch the season 4 finale of Psych, this Wednesday at 10pm EST!! Good Luck!

It’s no secret we here at The Flickcast are big fans of this summer’s Xbox Live hit, ‘Splosion Man. In addition to getting a score of an 8.5 in the review, we got some time back at San Diego Comic-Con to speak with the CEO of Twisted Pixel, Michael Wilford and even got a play through of one of the first levels.

Now it’s your turn to ‘splode. Our good friends at Twisted Pixel have sent us some download codes for XBox Live Arcade which you can redeem for the full game of ‘Splosion Man.

We’re going to be doing this givaway a bit differently than our last one. This time, through the power of Twitter, all you have to do is Retweet this story when it goes live, and a random Tweep will walk away with a download code good for this summer’s hottest XBLA game!

Keep your eyes on our Twitter account to win!

As we mentioned in Episode 20 of The Flickcast (which went live earlier today) we are conducting our very first online contest for some pretty sweet prizes. Those who listen to the show know that each episode has a familiar title.

Those titles are originally from subtitles of movies, with a few popular quotes from movies thrown in. All you have to do is identify as many titles and quotes as possible, and you can walk away with a pretty sweet prize package.

Click through to find out how you can win!

Attention music and video game fans of all ages! Band Hero invites you to log onto BandHero.com to immortalize yourself and/or your band in a tribute to the newest game in the Guitar Hero family. Submitted photos will not only be populated into a mosaic, but the individual’s or group’s names will be entered into a weekly contest where randomly selected winners will score a Band Hero band kit for the platform of their choice and a Nintendo DS Lite band kit. Sweet!

In November, family, friends  and bandmates will ascend the virtual stage to rock their way to superstardom with Band Hero, featuring the hottest chart-toppers from everyone’s favorite acts including No Doubt, Lily Allen, The All-American Rejects, Snow Patrol and Jackson 5. Headlined by the most recognizable names in music today, Band Hero is the ultimate party game where players can create the band of their dreams through any combination of guitar or drum controllers and vocals, giving rockers of all ages the chance to experience and their favorite music on a whole new level.

One of the great things about Comic-Con in San Diego is that fans like to dress up as their favorite characters from comics, movies and TV. But really, “like” doesn’t exactly cover it. They really, really, really like to dress up and its one of the things that makes Comic-Con attendees special: they take their fandom seriously.

What better way, then, to honor these hard core fanboys and girls than with a contest where they can win all sorts of cool prizes? Fortunately, that’s just what the folks at Marvel are doing next week in San Diego. Sure, there’s the “official” costume extravaganza at Comic-Con, but that one doesn’t feature a grand prize personally autographed by Stan Lee.

Here’s all the info from Marvel’s own virtual lips:

Join In The Marvel Costume Contest At Comic-Con International

Remember when you were a kid (some of you were younger or older) and you thought of some really cool designs for Transformers, but didn’t have anything to do with them? Well USA Today is giving you a chance to shine.

The newspaper has posted a contest where you come up with your very own transformer, either Autobot or Decepticon, and you’ll get an interview and your design shown in the paper, which happens have the largest circulation of newspapers in the country.