Starhawk Beta Code Giveaway
When you wish upon a star, you get a Starhawk Beta Code. Okay, maybe it’s not that easy, but we’re trying to make it as easy as possible by giving away 20 codes to download and enjoy the Starhawk beta.
To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment telling us about your favorite holiday video game experience. Maybe you got a game you really wanted on Christmas day. Maybe you’re that N64 kid, or had an experience just like it where you were screaming at the top of your lungs because you were so happy you got a game, a console, or something else video game related. Tell us in the comments below, and you’ll automatically be entered into the contest.
Winners will be chosen on Monday, December 19th at 12:00PM PST. Codes are for the North American PlayStation Store only.
Happy Holidays from PlayStation LifeStyle.
An extra code will also be given to whoever leaves the best message on our podcast voicemail.
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Favourite holiday videogame experience, eh?
Well, it’d have to be what got me into gaming. My best friend got a PSone for Christmas when we were like, 3 or 4 years old. I went over to his house a few days after Christmas (I think it was the 29th) and we started playing all the games he had. I absolutely loved Crash Bandicoot and I still play that game occasionally on my PSP.
There is a picture of us from a year or so later, sitting next to each other in our chairs playing all the different games. It’s funny, because now you can see that exact same thing, except we’re 17 and playing PS3. Every since the two of us have loved gaming, and it’s been my dream for more years than I can remember to work in the gaming industry.
my greatest of all time experience was when i was about 8 and street fighter 2 just was about to come out on the snes. I thought I would of never been able to get that game much less a snes system. But low and behold when i woke up on that sunny x mas day, ( i live in hawaii) my mom went to her car and took out my final present which was a snes and a copy of SIMCITY!!? Lol, but i still cryed alittle just cause i got a snes.
Lets see… When I first got a ps2 and jak and daxter with it. Played all day and night and it sparked an interest in gaming.So far Ive played so many games on so many systems but Jak and Daxter still stands to be one of my favourite games ever and the ps2 as the greatest console ever
I wanted a N64 when they came out and my mom had got me the Nintendo and SNES in the past so I was really hoping to get it but they were hard to find. As it got closer to Christmas my mom finally told me she wanted to get it but couldn’t find it and she took me with her to a bunch of stores looking for one. On Christmas eve I remember it being a really bad snow storm and driving with her and my younger siblings to a pretty distant Toys R Us where they had a bunch of pieces of paper you could take to the counter but we both thought the amount of papers couldn’t reflect their actual stock since no other store even had one. We took the paper to the counter and the employee let us know they just got that shipment in a few hours ago and did have a bunch of them. I don’t think I was ever that stressed again until many years later.
My favorite holiday gaming experience is when I was so excited that my family got me my first PSone on Christmas. Along with the first Crash Bandicoot, it was what made me enjoy platform games & made me a PlayStation fan ever since. The Crash games & Spyro games were my most favorite games on that console, no doubt about it. It was awesome that my wishes came true that day.
One of my best experiences came during my mother’s last Christmas. It had been a tight year financially for my family, as they usually were, and my mother’s medical bills were taking a toll. The doctor’s weren’t giving us much hope; she was being taken over by cancer at an alarming rate. What had started out as breast cancer had proceeded rapidly to her colon and kidneys. She was a shell of her former self, emaciated and skin turning yellow from jaundice. Anyone who knew my mother was saddened to see this beautiful, happy person reduced to this state. My father was lost, just going through the motions. The following years would see him never celebrate Christmas with us again. But that Christmas, THAT Christmas, my mother wanted to leave us with some good memories. So she spent money we could ill afford, and bought her three children whatever they had asked for. I remember my younger brother screaming with delight at his SNES and Star Wars game. I don’t recall what my sister received, but I know I got some Playstation One stuff. I’m not sure anymore what it was, because at that moment, it didn’t matter. It was the look on my mother’s face as she watched us open gifts for the last time that I will always remember and cherish.
Thank you for sharing such a personal, heart-warming story with us here. Best wishes to you and your family this holiday season. Truly a wonderful story.
Well For me it was FF7 on X-mas day i open the gift i saw FF7 i trued blue in the face for a 30 sec then passed out this was back in 97 and for that week i spent 150 hours on that game …
well that happend when i has 10 years old it was 24 of december and in the middle of the night i heard steps in my gaming room when i get in i saw a man dress like santa as soon as i see him i run to my room and get back to sleep the next day i wake up and i went to my gaming room and guess what? all my games and my psone was gone you guess well he was a thief and i told to my dad and he was like O.O and didnt you tell us that there was a dude in our gaming room but as you know i was a kid so i used to believe in santa U.U.
i remember being that kid that had to go over to his friends house to play games..(my mom thought games were horrid).i mean we had games just not the wow games you know?.so every other Friday i would go to his house and just bask at how awesome his Sega Saturn was..
one day while at home i told my mom that me and my brother wanted a Sega Saturn for Christmas…of course she was against it but my dad on the other hand wasn’t.
come Christmas morning me and my brother rushed to the tree and started to rip open boxes..much to my surprise there was something called a Playstation on the cover..we looked at each other and wondered what was this?. next to it were two games called Ridge Racer and Battle Arena Toshinden.. when we finally had everything connected we started jumping around excited even though we didn’t know what this was..it was awesome..lol we tired ourselves out but it was the best xmas ever. (made me a Playstation fan ever since) my dad rocks!!
Greatest video game experience…
I was hanging out at Target, and they had a PS3 demo thingy out, and I decided to check it out… My favorite game on the PS2 at the time was NFS, and the PS3 demo had Motorstorm on… and I was blown away.
The graphics blew my mind, the physics of the cars deteriorating made me gasp, and the intensity of the game was enough to convince me to pick up a PS3 over an Xbox (I was never into Halo
). The first game I picked up for the PS3 was Motorstorm (’cause it was so freakin’ awesome!!!) and I beat it in about a week. Then I bought every DLC for it. Then I beat those. And they were hard. But it was definitely the most amazing gaming experience I had ever had. 
Merry christmas you filthy anamals:
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and a happy new year.
Wow I figured I’d be way late on putting in this code but thought what the hay might as well try. Thanks man I’m downloading the beta right now. Nice lil birthday present for me I’ve been waiting on star hawk for ever! Thanks again
No problem. Im surprised it took a half hour for someone to claim it lol. FYI crushing a hawk with a building is most delicious.
Wow i was probably just a couple minutes too late..
Congratulations you lucky dog
greatest experience playng ace combat on ps2
My favorite holiday experience was when my dad bought my brother and I our first gaming system – the SEGA Mega Drive (AKA Genisis)!! We were honestly the first people in our town in Kenya to get this system and our first two games were Sonic the Hedgehog and Michael Jackson Moonwalker. This was my introduction into the gaming world. Playing hours upon hours of Sonic and Michael Jackson. Till today I can remember Michael’s songs in 16-bit.
Best part of this story is I still have my Mega Drive and both games!
My greatest videogame experience has to be the Christmas that I got my PS3.
I was stunned speechless by the graphics (got Uncharted 2 with it; still one of my favorites). I plan to be a Video Game designer,so this influenced me greatly in that respect.
My favorite holiday gaming experience? 25th December 1996. God what a day that was. I’d asked for a PlayStation for Christmas but my mum and dad weren’t sure they could afford it. I wanted one so badly that I made one out of paper on Christmas Eve whilst watching Home Alone. I was only six years old as I was born in 1990 and the PlayStation became the console that defines the 90′s and joyful children.
That evening I unwrapped my first Sony PlayStation in front of my grandad, mum, dad and younger brother. Together we played Tekken which was the first game I unwrapped all day long. But my mum had a life long tradition of saving a present for each day up until new years day. I proceeded to get Alien Trilogy, Die Hard Trilogy, Mortal Kombat 3, Discworld, Exhumed and finally Excalibur 2555 AD.
That was probably the best Christmas I’ve ever had.
I have way too many but one of the best would most likely have to be a Gamecube with Super Smash Brothers Melee on Christmas. Saying me and my cousins were pre-occupied for hours would be an understatement. What Did You Say Ma? Christmas Dinner What? Tch… *Ok everyone heres the plan. Let’s hurry up and eat so we can play some more*.
Getting an N64 me and my brother went crazy, We got some Star wars racers game with it, we played it forever, Man those where the days, later on we would look for secret areas and so forth.
This isnt really ‘christmas’ but another story I have is playing Playstation 2 with a bunch of friends when I was like 13, we would put in Dragon ball z and have tournaments writtin down on paper, And then have ‘Champions’…Man, Those where good times.
Waking up on Christmas morning to find a PS2 underneath the tree. Went to Best Buy the next day and bought Jak and Daxter (although my mom didn’t want me to, due to the “VIOLENCE”). It started my love of videogames and without that Christmas, I don’t know if I’d be as big of a gamer as I am today.
Hands down it was when I was 9 years old and I got NES, Legend of Zelda & Supermario/Duckhunt combo game. Still my favorite Christmas of all time.
Although a close second was a few years ago After I had kind of gotten away from gaming obsession for a while and before the PS3 came along I had Surgery on my throat at Thanksgiving and my buddy bought me GOW 1 & 2 to pass the time while I was layed up for a couple of weeks. I didn’t sleep for 2 days and that’s friggin hard to do hopped up on painkilers, but as god as my witness I wasn’t going to rest till Ares felt my rath.
I remember on christmas my sisters and step brother unwraped some snes games like Mario Kart and then on christmas morning too are surrpise was Super Nintendo with Super Mario Brothers in the box. One christmas I had gotten an see through Game Boy, one of games I got was Return Of The Jedi. On other christmas’es have got an Sega Geneis and PS1. I remember staying up really late playing Spyro The Dragon with my sister, those were the best times.
When i got my ps3 and a copy of cod4. It was the first time in my life that I have ever played through a game in one sitting. I think the reason why I did that was becuase i was blown away by the graphics.It was pretty funny becuase my mom was so mad that i spent Christmas gaming.
when my sisters and I got a ps2 for Christmas. I got Kingdom Hearts and i was so used to the psOne controller that i didn’t know what the analogs did and it took me 3 hours to figure out how to move lol.
A long time ago when I was still a little kid, my brother was playing brave fencer musashi on the PS1.
I was eating fruity pebbles (my favorite ^_^) while my brother was fighting an epic fight with Kojiro Musashi’s arch nemisis. At the time my brother couldn’t beat him and eventually gave up, he handed me the controller and I beasted Korjiro. My brother was jealous and said I won because I watched him. but whatevs
TL:DR I ate bowls of Fruity pebbles and was superior in video games
Ah, I remember getting tons of video game stuff for christmas one year, more than any other year I can remember from my child hood. I got tons of new BGA games and accessories for it, some really cool gamecube controllers for me and my sister to play, mario part 6? I think, Mario Kart Double Dash, and a few other cool things.
Getting my N64 was also a great moment.
Back in 1990, I remember my grandpa getting me a NES with SMB/Duck Hunt included with two controllers and the zapper gun for Christmas. I had never played a videogame in my life and was at a young age. I didn’t even ask for it and was surprised to see it under the tree wrapped up. This basically introduced me to videogames and every christmas after that has yet to top that christmas.
Getting my own PS2!
It was the best feeling ever to have a console to myself, it was the slim PS2 but it didn’t matter it was all mine and I could do whatever I wanted and I chose who could play on it. I let my brothers play freely but I reminded them who’s console they were playing on every time I spotted them in my room.
“oh hey, are you guys playing on MY PS2??” as I walk away all snobby
Christmas Day of 2003. I recieved a PlayStation 2 from my parents. My excitement was certainly reasonable, as that little system sucked days upon days out of my life. It was just packed with tons of games, over time GTA 3, Vice City, Jak and Daxter, Sly Cooper, Ratchet and more kept me busy for what seemed to be an endless amount of time. I had tons of fun with my PS2, and now, I still love and enjoy it. While playing my PS2 (playing Tekken 5) is actually when my friend told me about PS3 and Warhawk. I played it, now PS3 is my new addiction, and here I am, trying to get a BETA key for Starhawk. We’ll, hopefully I will see you guys on the battlefield!
A marathon run through Resistance: Fall of Man Co-Op on Superhuman alongside my best mate & a refrigirator full of energy drinks.
My mom and stepdad didn’t have the luxury of being able to buy me anything fancy when I was a kid. But in 2002 my grandpa suprised at Christmas with a PS2 and ever since I have been a Playstation loyalist. The first game I played on the PS2 was Sly Cooper I think and both my PS2 and Sly Cooper are in my closet in a shoe box.
When I was a kid my mom asked me what do I want for Christmas. Mortal Kombat 3! I replied. MK3 was released on SNES and I wanted it bad. In early December my mom decorated the christmas tree and had all the gifts under the tree. Judging by the size of my gift I knew it was a SNES game. I was very excited and impatient. I came up with this sinister idea of cutting open the present from the side and swap the game with one of my old ones. Everything went according to plan until I made the mistake of telling me lil bro what I’ve done. I enjoyed the game for a few hours until my mom caught me playing it. As punishment she gave the game to my bro.
my special ps3 memory was camping outside bestbuy in the freezing cold rain w/a cast on my broken foot at launch as like #1 on waitlist & my awesome gf brought us hot cocoa & other treats..she maybe wanted me get ps3 as much as i did cuz of bein injured lol..well unfortunately waitlist thing didn’t exactly work out immediately but i befriended the security guy & gave my # so few days later he called n said shhh we got some come at this time but i was on crutches so my gf went n got it also picked one up for very good friend who lived kinda far so we could play online together killing chimera and whatever else…long story short…happily ever after…ps3 launch maybe not exactly a traditional holiday but was for us!!!
I remember getting tmnt the arcade game for the original NES. Played that game with my brother non stop for days.
Only real Christmas memory to do with gaming, is somehow I always end up playing Uncharted (naughty dog) games each year lately.
MY parents did not celebrate Christmas, but if we did. When they got my Colecovision it was my first game system and was so amazing. I remember playing Rocky a lot and a side scrolling space game, can’t remember the name tho. Some great times I had with that thing.
I’d consider that my first Christmas.
One of my favorite christmas video game experiences was when I first got my PS2 and my first two games were Final Doom and Oni. Oni, was the game that made me into a Bungie fan, even though Halo was a bit different Oni, I played Oni pretty much everyy day. I also enjoyed Final Doom quite a bit too, I wasn’t much of a fan of SP FPS games because I was mostly a fan of MP experiences like Goldeneye, but I enjoyed it quite a bit.
Best xmas video game related memory I had was when I got my master system, up til the last minute my parents told my brother and I that it was too expensive to buy us one, when we had just given up on the idea and my dad walked up with this shiny box, that was the first time I played video games until I fell asleep holding the controller and not letting it go.
Hmm, my best experience was getting Jet Force Gemini and N64. Well, it was me and my sisters and brothers, but we really enjoyed it a lot altogether. There was so many fond memories of us taking turn and playing the game, it kind of makes me depressed! Because there’s rarely any split screen MP games like that nowadays.
My favorite experience relating video games was on Christmas Day when I received my first GameCube. Besides the Sega Saturn, which I never really played, this was my first game system ever. This day started my love towards gaming, and I will never forget it. I remember after ripping open the wrapping paper, using a pillow to wipe all over the floor while me on it. I’d scream and run up and down the stairs. Later, I would collapse on the family coach then just…. I’m not sure, but if memory serves… I think I would start dancing (I dislike dancing very much). Well anyways, since I love gaming so much, that was probably the best present I got ever…. Well…. I did get some amazing games later, but this was definitely my most excited reaction to any present. Of course, I do certainly love my games.
It was Christmas time in 2004, I was 12 years old and that was when my mom got me my first game console ever which was a PS2. She bought Star Wars Battlefront; she knew it was one of my favorite games I always wanted. I was thrilled and brought it over to my friends house to show him. It was a blast! In fact I still play my PS2 today and I have a PS3, but I still play my PS2 more often.
Honestly, the best Christmas video game experience I have had was when I got warhawk. Don’t think I’m saying this because I want the starhawk beta, at first I really hated warhawk so much but when I started getting used to the controls and started to dogfight more I really started to enjoy the game a lot and became such a beast(not being cocky).. Sooner or later, I told all my cousins to get warhawk after they bought it we would play warhawk against eachother during the holidays. For example, when they used to come to my house we used to put 2 TV’s together to have a LAN party of warhawk. That year, I enjoyed christmas very much because it was interesting to play against other good people.
I am 34 now i have been playing video games for over 25 years, i am so proud to say i am a video game geek! there are so many christmass i remember getting a new game or a new system but i think my first one was the best. it was Atari 2600, back in 1983/84. my mom used to let us open up our presents early at midnight christmass eve. I remember getting an assorted of Voltron and Transformers toys. Then i noticed a huge box that my dad told me not to open, it was driving me crazy because i remember saying to myself what could it be! After my mom and little brother went to sleep my dad says go ahead kid tear into it! As i was tearing the rapping paper off it was as if all the christmass lights from the tree pointed their lights toward the Atari 2600 box and there i was introduced to video games for the first time ever! My life was never the same. Years after it was Intellivision, then Nintendo and Super Nintendo Sega genisis Sega CD and so on. Every system that came out i used to say i can only imagine what the graphics are going to look like in ten years. Its almost 2012 The PS3 is my favorite system of all time just imagine in 2021 what the future has instore for video games, maybe there will be just one gaming source. Who knows i just cant wait to see what happens!
I remeber waking up to my PS1!!!! I said bye bye ti nintendo and my life was forever changed.
Around Christmas 2007 I bought Shadow of the Colossuse based on everyone saying it was one of the best games ever for the PS2. All I knew is that it was a series of boss fights and it was an ‘artsy’ game. I looked up how many boss fights there is, and planned for one boss per night for the 16 days leading up to Christmas.
Each night starting on Dec 8th, I played SotC until I killed one of the Colosse. At first I couldn’t understand why oh why you had to travel such long lonely distances without anything to do just to reach one of the monsters. It just seemed so boring. Also didn’t understand even why I was supposed to kill them in the first place. Were they threatening the world? Did they do something bad to deserve being slayed? Yes they had to die to save the girl, but why?
Nevertheless, I carried on with my mission of killing one colossi per night. The fights themselves were pretty cool and each one contained a puzzle to figure out their weakness. Slowly my attitude began changing. First it was the expressions on the colossus’s faces. They looked sad and disappointed in me. Like they knew why I was there, and even though they put up a fight, they accepted their fate somehow. Then the long solitary rides in the desert didn’t seem so boring anymore but more of a time to reflect on why I was killing them and if they really deserved to die. Was the life of the girl really worth slaughtering all the magnificent creatures?
On the night before Christmas on Christmas Eve I sat down to complete my final quest of saving the girl and ridding the world of the last beasty. Tomorrow I’d be surrounded by friends and family, opening presents, watching football and eating delicious food, but tonight was serious business. Tonight I would slay the last Colossi. I felt sad that he had to die, that I was the one to deliver the final blow. Before mounting my horse for the final journey, I looked over the crumbled statues of the fallen colossi. Each one a majestic creature but now was only a memory. Then I looked at the sickly girl in white, laying on the stone bed awaiting me to release her from the paralyzing spell. I must carry on.
EDIT: Decided to delete my final paragraph describing what happened when I returned to the castle since it spoils the ending. I’ll just say that is was very surprising and to my delight, involves a resurrection which was incredibly appropriate for Christmas! The ending was both sad and gratifying. The next day while enjoying the Christmas celebrations, I couldn’t help but feel a longing to discuss what had happened, but alas, none of my family were gamers who would understand. Still, it was an amazing ritual and a wonderful experience that I’ll always associate with Christmas.
Ah, yes. My Christmas experience. *lights a pipe* C’mere, sit on my lap… No? Ok, sit over there then.
I remember it like it was just a century ago. The whole month of December I was giving hints that I really wanted an Xbox 360. I wasn’t really expecting to get it but you know…. It never hurts to try. Then one morning I notice a particular box under the tree addressed to *gasp* me?
I was so happy because I knew for sure it was what I asked for. No one would admit that it was indeed a 360 (why would they?) but I still knew.
So Christmas morning comes around and I run straight for the big box and just tear into it. When I finally opened it I was even more surprised to find out it was really just a couple of shirts with some rocks to add weight to it. As you can guess, I wasn’t really happy… so after a little mean faces, they finally showed me my REAL present, which was the 360 I asked for.
I haven’t trusted their presents since. I kid, I kid. I never did.
I remember my favorite Christmas, my first video game system, a PS2. I was begging for it everyday of December. When ever a relative would ask what i wanted for Christmas I said, and i quote “I would like a Play Station 2 please, that all, period.” I would sometimes get “accidentally” lost is a store and go to the electronics, so when my mom found me I would just happen to have a PS2 box in my hands saying “ready to go to the check out.”
Alas, my mom kept saying no every time, and said that i might not get it. In my head I was looking every where for a solution, and ,as almost every kid would think of, a light bulb went off in my head and I said what about Santa.
So since that idea I was being an angel, I would say my please and thank yous, I cleaned up the houses’ of my relatives a lot. I even had to do yard work for my uncle, and I was like 7, I felt like I was cutting a jungle. Everyday of work I hoped that Santa was watching me working and being a good boy.
Finally came Christmas eve, I was at my Aunt’s house and I was doing any last minuet good work I could do. Then on Christmas day I woke up and went to the living room and i saw a box in the perfect shape of the PS2 box. My mom said it was for me and I tore at it and opened the box, I found a lot of the packaging popcorn and my hand dug out one thing, a California Yoga course on video casset. I was in my Scooby-Doo PJ’s and I was on the verge of tears, and I had a puppy dog face at my mom, when my uncle laughed and said to turn around. As if time slowed down is turned and my face lit up, I saw a PS2 connected to the TV and I literally had a moment where you run around in circles and scream with happiness. That morning my mom, aunt, and uncle took several hours to peel me away from the TV. That was the best Video Game Christmas memory and also my best Christmas memory of all.
I remember when I got my very first video game ever… It was a GameCube that I had really really been wanting and on Christmas I was so very happy to find that I got the GameCube plus a whole bunch of new games for it as well (they were crappy but i loved them). To this day i still have that GameCube that introduced me to my current life as a gamer.
I remember one Christsmas morning i woke up and rushed to look under the tree to find Altered Beast and Golden Axe which “Santa” had brought me.
My favorite holiday videogame experence was when my dad and I had gotten Warhawk around Christmas. I had always been good at videogames. I was the first grandchild so i was spoild and got a ps1 when i was 3. No one could beat me in Crash Bandicoot, I was the best. So me and my dad were playing that Christmas and we go into a game that had just started and by this time we were pretty good at the game and our name was sidebuster44. So we got into a capture the flag game and there was this guy named iceman101 and everytime he went for the flag he got it and returned it so the game ended with him and his team (the blue team) winning. I told my dad next game i am going to win and so the next game started and the map was Island Outpost. Every time he returned the flag I returned the flag. I had taken back the flag 5 times before he could and my team (the red team) won. Come to find out that he was the number one warhawk player in the world. I could not belive that i had beat someone that good. He is now band from warhawk I dont know why. My PSN name is now ninjaskills 44 and if you want to send me a friend request plese just tell me that you saw my reply to the questing and i will gladly except and I hope you conciter my reply to the question
To all the warheads out there,
Steven (aka ninjaskills44)