We asked you Freeks to share your best excuses to stay home “sick” and play your favorite video games. You answered. We got over 90 videos from you! It was fun. And your videos were… entertaining. Some of them were extremely… messed up. All of these ellipses are making me sound… stupid.

Anyway, Gamer’s PayDay is over and the grand prize winner is Jesse Carson with 345 "Likes"! Jesse wins $500 to stay home from work, a copy of MW3 and our Perfect Arsenal Pack (more on that later!).

Our three runners-up are Ben Phillips, Ryan Randall and Brian Lembke. You guys win a copy of Modern Warfare 3 and our Perfect Arsenal Pack. Congrats, guys! We’ll be in touch.

If you didn’t win this time, we’d like to thank you for having some fun with us anyway. Here’s a discount code worth 10% off anything in our store (including the new FPS Freek ELITE!) that you can use yourself or share with your friends. Enter code “payday” at checkout for the discount to be applied.

Here is the winning video from ­­­­­­­­Jesse:

KontrolFreek and vVv Gaming have teamed up for a Legendary Weekend!



From Friday September 24 thru Sunday September 26, follow @KontrolFreek and @vvv_gaming and tweet the following:

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RT @vvv_gaming @kontrolfreek I want to get better at Halo: Reach! Send me the new FPS Freek Legendary! #freekvvv

Each tweet enters you for a daily chance to win a pair of the new FPS Freek Legendary. Each day we will pick one lucky entry from the entrants we receive.

vVv Gaming and Trevor from Kontrol Freek said:

How do KontrolFreeks work?
Our products snap on over your existing thumb pads to improve your gaming experience on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles. Our flagship product is the FPS Freek. It works by increasing the length of your stock sticks by about 40%. This gives you more aiming control in first-person shooters like Halo and Call of Duty etc...

What is the science behind them?
Increasing the linear distance your thumb travels gives you the opportunity to make smaller adjustments and also “snap” to targets much faster in first-person shooters. This gives you the luxury of turning up controller sensitivities without sacrificing precision. Using the FPS Freek honestly gives you the closest feel to a mouse possible on a console today.

How can they improve your play?
The greater leverage offers you better control and less force. This helps to alleviate thumb-fatigue and adds more comfort to long gaming sessions. In short, this increased accuracy and decreased thumb-fatigue results in more kills and less deaths.

How long does it take to get accustomed to using them?
It varies, really. Some people get used to them quite quickly and notice a difference right away. Others take a little longer. I would say, try them for a week and see what happens. 95% of the time people are pleased with the results.

You have different kinds of Freeks. Can you explain the differences between each and explain what they were designed to do?
Besides the FPS Freek that I spent the last few minutes talking about, we also have the TD Freek and the Speed Freek. The TD Freek works much in the same way as the FPS Freek but was designed with Madden players in mind. For the sake of comfort, we used a softer material for grip and went with a convex design for the thumb pad. It's getting some pretty positive reviews. The Speed Freek is a little different. It was specifically designed to help you gain faster lap times in racing games like Forza and Grand Turismo. It is a "U" shaped attachment that acts like a cradle for your thumb. It helps you keep your thumb in place while holding long turns and aids you in making smaller adjustments on the track. It's quite unique and our fans have found many other uses for it--like in SKATE and HAWX for example.

Let’s talk longevity. How long do a pair last?
I don't really have a definitive answer to this question. It's like asking how long a car will last. It all depends on how much you play, the alkalinity of your skin, how much you sweat, all those x factors. In my experience they last longer than the stock Xbox 360 sticks.

Can you link us to some reviews so players have independent sources to compare information?
A good place to get unbiased reviews from normal gamers like yourself is actually on our own website: http://www.kontrolfr...view-Index.aspx Other than that you can just do a Google search or hop on YouTube and see the many video reviews found there.

Follow @KontrolFreek and @vvv_gaming, and start tweeting for your chance to win!

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With the release date of Halo: Reach and the FPS Freek Legendary quickly closing in we are overflowing with excitement and have decided to spread the joy around a bit.  We’re always working hard to please our fans and this one is just for you.  We will be giving away six (6) copies of Halo: Reach to six of our biggest fans.  Who are these six biggest fans, you ask?  Well, that all depends on you:

Over the next six days (this weekend included) we will be setting out 1 question for each day on our Facebook fan page (so make sure you’re a fan!).  To win a copy of Halo: Reach, all you have to do is comment on our post with the correct answer to the day’s ‘Legendary Halo Trivia’ question within the first 2 hours of us asking.  We will then choose someone randomly from the comment list who has the correct answer.  Easy.

The only catch is that you MUST change your Facebook profile picture to our Facebook profile picture to be eligible to win one of the prizes (it's the one at the top of the page).  This way we know that you’re a Freek like us.

So keep a look out on Facebook for the questions and be sure to check your message inbox to see if you’ve won!

Confused?  Here are the rules again:

1. Change your Facebook profile picture to our Facebook profile picture (now you’re Freeky too!)
2. Check Facebook regularly for the day’s ‘Legendary Halo Trivia’ question (this will be at random times)
3. Post the correct answer within the first 2 hours of the question being posted (don’t procrastinate)
4. We will randomly select one of you from the comment list that has the correct answer and our profile picture as your profile picture (don’t forget this part!)
5. Look for a message from us announcing that you’ve won

Have fun and good luck!

And in case you missed any of our recent announcements, we are also giving away 2 Halo: Reach Xbox 360 Bundles and 4 more copies of Halo: Reach through a couple of our Youtube friends, Trumpf and WoodysGamertag.  Check out the links below for more chances to win more cool stuff:

Trumpf -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tFm0FC8ywk

WoodysGamertag -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc2mlp9Z-e0

What’s up, Freeks?  Remember that t-shirt contest?  You know, the one that we’ve been talking about since you got here?  Yeah.  It’s been a long road getting to the winner.  And we appreciate all of the feedback that you guys have given us along the way.

Before we show you the winner, we wish that we could have chosen more designs to print but we’d have to fire way too many people around the office to make it work—and that would just be rude.  No worries, though.  We will be working on adding some fresh gear soon and hope that you guys show the same kind of excitement for all of our upcoming announcements.

Anyway, we think that you’ll be happy with our choice for the very first KontrolFreek t-shirt.  The design that we’ve chosen really embodies the spirit of the FPS Freek: pulling off a nasty headshot and showing your friends how 1337 you are.  We hope you like it as much as we do!

Congratulations, Tim!

The best part of this announcement is that you can purchase the winning t-shirt right now in our store in both men’s and women’s sizes!  The first run of these t-shirts will ship starting next week.  You guys have been asking for it for a long time—now’s your chance to finally show your n00b friends how awesome you are by sporting our new gear.

Peace, Love and Killstreaks.

Well, it has been an interesting few days to say the least!  We’ve been really busy bringing you guys this contest and appreciate those of you who have been super-cool and supportive of what we’re trying to do.  We want to build a community of likeminded gamers who not only love KontrolFreek products, but want to be a part of something and help us shape what we’ll be doing in the future.  Doing things like giving away Xbox 360s is just our way of giving back—and honestly, it’s a lot of fun.  So congratulations to the last two winners and stay tuned for more cool stuff coming soon!

The winners are:

James Lutz

Robert Cumming

Thank you all!

KontrolFreek

Well, that was unexpected… Not just one, but TWO insane (apparently) people did not claim their Xbox 360s.  Seriously, who doesn’t claim a completely free and beautiful Xbox 360 slim?  You guys really blew it!  But if you happen to be stuck in a well or something equally as bad we are really sorry.

Anyway, we’ve decided to pick a new pair of winners—but there’s a little twist this time: The 2 winners will be chosen randomly from a list of today’s customers who use the code “KFXBOXSLIM” at checkout.  That’s right, you have to buy something!  But what’s great is that you’ll now have an even better excuse to try out those Stealth on Stealth FPS Freeks you’ve been eyeing for awhile—and in doing so, you’ll substantially increase your chances of winning one of the Xbox 360s!  You’ll also get 10% off your entire purchase.  Can you say “Win-Win”?

So get over to the store and remember to enter the code “KFXBOXSLIM” at checkout!

We will announce the 2 winners tomorrow at around the same time (12:00pm ET) on Facebook.

After the 12:00pm announcement you really, reALLY, REALLY lucky two winners will be getting a friend request on Facebook from me (Trevor).  FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THIS WORLD, ACCEPT IT!*

As for the rest of you, please don’t come back to the Facebook page whining again about not winning—it’s not cool.  Just hang in there and try not to be turds.  We promise we’ll do something like this again soon.

Love you.

KontrolFreek

*Winners have 72 hours to claim their prize… blah, blah, blah.  Seriously, who’s not going to claim this?