It’s been a while since we updated our website. We thought it would be a good idea to CENTER IT IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR BROWSER, you know, just like normal people. We’ve enjoyed leaning to the left over the last 6 years, but hey, eventually you have to embrace change.

In addition to some cosmetic changes, we’ve also made a few adjustments and added some new features:

CHEAPER SHIPPING
Our shipping rates have been reduced across the board for customers in Canada, The United States, and most International destinations. The cost of shipping is now entirely based on the weight of your order so you will no longer incur additional shipping costs each time you add a product to your cart. Shipping will only increase if you add enough products to bump it into the next weight range — the long and short of it is that you pay less. For customers in the USA, we’ve significantly improved the delivery time of our most economical shipping method from weeks to days.

WISH LIST
Plenty of you have requested a wish list feature to aid your conquest for free stuff. You can now add products to your wish list on the product details page. You can modify the wish list in your account, as well as spam it to your friends and family via social networking.

IMPROVED WHITEBOARD (Brainstorming)
We updated the white board (now referred to as Brainstorming) so you can vote on the ideas you like or dislike. This will help bring some of the better ideas to the surface so designers don’t have to surf through hundreds of comments to find their inspiration!

BEHIND THE SCENES
We’ve made a variety of changes you won’t notice to improve usability, security, and keep our site up-to-date with technology and standards. This is just the beginning, commonly referred to around here as Phase 1. You can look forward to a slew of new features and greater improvements in the months and years to come.

NEW PRODUCTS
Of course, we had to add some of those too. Check them out.

As with any website upgrade, I’m sure we missed something! If you encounter any technical problems don’t hesitate to drop us an email here, we’ll patch it up right away.

Good Hunting!

/SR

(P.S. — if anyone has the power to wipe IE from existence. Let us know if you need help.)

SplitReason has teamed up with Origin for their March T-Shirt contest!

Win any T-shirt you want from our awesome selection of shirts for geeks and gamers.  One Origin PC Facebook fan will be randomly picked at the end of this month and can pick their T-shirt.

Origin’s Facebook Fan Page

Origin’s Website

Don’t forget to tell your friends!!

Zombies are really interesting creatures.  As much as we have gleaned from movies, books, games and the web, we know there is so much  more to learn.  If you happen to find yourself in the middle of a zombie pandemic,  the only thing likely to save your ass is knowledge… and maybe a very big gun.

We wanna hear from you on the subject.

Submit your zombie facts, survival tips or true accounts and  be entered into a random draw for a zombie prize pack.  There’s no right or wrong answers, if your comments can save one person from a fate worse than death… it’s worth the effort!

Prize pack contains: Zombie Pwnage t-shirt, Zombie Day At The Mall t-shirt and a copy of The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks.

Post your entries in the comments section below.  Draw takes place March 15, 2010.

For gamers the “games room” is a place of solitude, a place to reflect on past victories and a place to conjure new ones.  Just you, maybe a few friends, and well… millions of screaming online lunatics to riddle full of bullet holes.

Okay, maybe it’s not a place of solitude.  Maybe your headset is full of obnoxious, immature kid gamers and asshole leetists tea-bagging your broken corpse and yelling obscenities at you.

Either way, a comfortable environment can be the key to victory, or a safe haven from the harsh realities of online gaming.  We ran this contest to see where you enjoy your gaming experiences, and this is what we found.

Our winners:

First Place goes to Florian of Pappenheim, Germany.  Florian sent us this picture featuring his huge gaming collection, we have to wonder if maybe he was a librarian in his former life.  For his entry Florian will receive a new game for his collection and $100 in Splitreason Gear.

Second Place goes to Aaron of Vancouver, BC.  He sent in a ton of pic’s featuring his theater room for console gaming, and his PC gaming area surrounded in a sizable action figure collection, we loved the alien figure.  For his entry Aaron will receive $100 in SplitReason gear.

Third Place goes to Daniel of Victoria, Australia.  Daniel spends his time fragging noobs on his new i7 gaming rig and 40″ LCD.  We have $50 in SR gear headed his way.

Thanks to everyone who entered, you’ll all received $10 in store credit.  Here are some honorable mentions:

Beginning January 27th, 2010 we’re going to start a new weekly feature, cleverly titled “Win Wednesday’s.”

Every Wednesday at a random time, we’ll be tweeting a geek or gamer related trivia question.  The first person to respond to our tweet with the correct answer will receive a free t-shirt of their choice, shipping to their doorstep, and a brief and irrelevant ego boost.

The inaugural season of Win Wednesday’s kicks off tomorrow, Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 and runs 12 weeks with our final trivia question on Wednesday, April 14th, 2010.

The Rules:

1) No one person can win more than once in a 30 day period. (Unless you are a pair of conjoined twins sharing one brain, and through some miracle of biology have two distinct personalities.)

2) If the first to respond has won in the last 30 days, the prize will be passed to the next respondent with the correct answer.  (Unless that is your conjoined twin who also won previously, in which case it will be passed over to the third respondent, and so on, and so forth…)

3) “Cheating” is not only allowed, it is encouraged.  The web is a powerful tool at everyone’s disposal and it has the potential to answer ALL.  It also adds an element of skill to this contest (speed-clicking, bookmarking, cat-like reflexes, a well planned strat, use of the force, or sheer will and determination may be required to flourish in this contest.)

4) Each weeks winner will also be entered into a draw for a yet to be determined and announced grand prize (more details coming soon…)  This prize will be awarded at the completion of season 1. The more you play, the more you win. The more you win, the more you, umm… win more.

5) Have Fun!

Follow us on Twitter every Wednesday for your chance to win!  Our first trivial question will appear on twitter tomorrow, at its regularly scheduled completely random time.

A few months back Bullet William started his journey in the mind of Glen Brogan, was realized as an illustration, made his way onto a t-shirt, and finally found permanent residence on the hip of a human body in the form of a Tattoo. He was recently spotted on a piece of toast just south of here and has been rumored to appear on select brands of tortilla chips sold at Wal-Mart, but these stories are yet to be confirmed. His legacy, lives on… forever. (Or at least the next 60-70 years or so.)

If you want to own a memento of Bullet William, check out the t-shirt and don’t forget to head over to alibinoraven.com to see more amazing work from Glen Brogan.

Is your gaming setup the envy of all your friends?  Are they over at your house on Saturday night because pwning noobs on 60 inches is better than anything RL has to offer?  We’re looking for the best of the best, the biggest of the big, the HD-est of the HD (yes, I just invented a word).  Send us a photo of your games room, gaming setup or crazy gaming rig.  If your setup is deemed worthy you could win a new game for your collection and some great SplitReason gear to go along with it.

Send your photos and a brief description of your setup to: contest@splitreason.com.

Your entries will be judged by the SR staff based on photographic merit, originality and all round craziness of your setup.  Bonus points will be awarded for pictures of your setup in action (gaming party!), additional geek/gamer props in the scene and splitreason plugs (yes, we can be bribed).

Winners will receive:

First Place:  A game of your choice for any system and $100 in SR Store credit (game must be readily available at retail stores).

Second Place: $100 in SR store credit.

Third Place: $50 in SR store credit.

All participants will receive $10 in SR store credit. (one credit per person).

No purchase necessary, enter as many times as you’d like.  Contest closes February 15, 2010.  Winners will be notified shortly after via E-mail and all entries will be displayed on our blog after winners have been selected and notified.

New clearance items for $10 each.  Get them cheap, before they’re gone forever!

SplitReason.com is having another contest and you could win!  Everyone at SplitReason is addicted to the new Call of Duty game Modern Warfare 2.  To celebrate we are having our own version of Capture the Flag with a free Call of Duty action figure give-a-way!  To claim this prize all you need to do is visit www.splitreason.com and find this image somewhere on the site:

After you have found the image, send the LINK of the page you found it on to:  contest@splitreason.com and we’ll ship out your action figures right away!

This is a first come first serve contest which means the first person to email us the correct link WINS.

We’re giving away a Guile action figure with 35 points of articulation and 2 sets of hands.  NOT ONE BUT TWO SETS OF HANDS!  In order to win this figure you must be a true Street Fighter fan and be able to answer this skill testing question:

IN THE ORIGINAL STREET FIGHTER II ARCADE EDITION, WHAT IS THE SEQUENCE OF COMMANDS TO PERFORM GUILE’S SHADOW THROW GLITCH?

(Be very specific in your answer)

If you can answer this and are the first person to submit your answer we will deem you worthy of this prize.  Email your answer to contest@splitreason.com.  Please include your twitter username as well.