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Hear that? That’s the awesomeness that’s slowly marching up to the release of Obsidian Entertainment’s Alpha Protocol. If you missed out on the exclusive videos that Sega gave us, here’s your chance to do some catching up. Head over to Video.Destructoid right now and hit the Exclusive channel, where you’ll have a long list of vignettes to pick from, showcasing some of interesting characters you’ll run into in Alpha Protocol.

How do you win this fancy and beautiful Alpha Protocol themed iPod Touch you ask? Easy. Be the 1000th follower 600 follower on @Vtoid official twitter account, and its all yours.

What are you waiting for!? Follow @Vtoid right now, and win! Update: Sadly, the contest only applies to U.S residence.

Hear that? That’s the awesomeness that’s slowly marching up to the release of Obsidian Entertainment’s Alpha Protocol. If you missed out on the exclusive videos that Sega gave us, here’s your chance to do some catching up. Head over to Video.Destructoid right now and hit the Exclusive channel, where you’ll have a long list of vignettes to pick from, showcasing some of interesting characters you’ll run into in Alpha Protocol.

How do you win this fancy and beautiful Alpha Protocol themed iPod Touch you ask? Easy. Be the 1000th follower on @Vtoid official twitter account, and its all yours.

What are you waiting for!? Follow @Vtoid right now, and win! Update: Sadly, the contest only applies to U.S residence.

If arcade style top-down flight shooters are your thing, then today’s freebie is most definitely for you. Blue Skies: Air Force Academy is a retro-flavored chopper game in which blimps and tanks surrender to your mighty missiles and tilt-controlled aerial maneuvers. More importantly, it’s OpenFeint’s free game of the day. 

For the cost of absolutely nothing, you’ll get a pretty decent arcade shooter that may not score points for precision, but is still pretty fun. It looks good and has a terrific soundtrack to boot, so it’s a high quality title for the asking price of bugger-all. It’ll take at least ten minute of your time, probably more. You can’t argue with that.

Gameloft, one of the most ambitious portable game developers in the business, is celebrating its tenth anniversary this month, and we’re all due a birthday present. From May 10 to May 21, the French studio will be giving away one free iPhone game for two hours every day, excluding weekends. 

Considering Gameloft develops some of the best iPhone games, including N.O.V.A, Operation Sandstorm, and even that guitar one with the dreadful covers, it’s got some potentially awesome freebies in the works. The company will be releasing a “happy hour” tweet via its @Gameloft feed every day, indicating when the free stuff hits. 

Gameloft’s among my favorite iPhone developers, so I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on its feeds from May 10. Their stuff’s typically worth the money, but I’m never turning down free.

Free Games Every Day with the iPhone Happy Hour for Gameloft’s 10th Anniversary [GameLoft Blog]

Electronic Arts wants to put your name in Crytek’s upcoming Crysis 2. Well, if you live in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, or Germany, that is. The publisher is picking 50 lucky gamer’s names to appear as graffiti in the upcoming first-person shooter.

It’s a Twitter contest, so get your Twitter-spamming hats on. First, follow the game’s official Twitter account, @Crysis. Then, depending on your region, tweet one of the following:

•  UK Residents: Hey @Crysis, I want you to  put my name in the game! http://crys.is #Crysis2contestUK
• US/CAN Residents:  Hey @Crysis, I want you to  put my name in the game! http://crys.is #Crysis2contestNA
• German Residents: Hey @Crysis, Ich mochte meinen Namen im Spiel sehen! http://crys.is #Crysis2contestDE

The contest runs through May 3, and it sounds like they’re picking tweeters (that’s the word, right?) at random. So maybe if you just spam the crap out your Twitter feed with these messages, you’ll up your chances. Everyone will just unfollow you, is all. Good luck with that. 

Dude, Kojima, calm down! Take it easy, man. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker hasn’t even hit shelves yet and you’re already talking about your next game. While I get that your work is never done, you’re giving me work by talking about game stuff. It’s been a long week and I kind of wanted to just hang back and chill today.

Here’s a recent tweet from the Twitter-happy creator of the Metal Gear series of games, Hideo Kojima:

I walked around the area where the “Confidential Project” is taking place. All of a sudden I realized something fell through the cracks. Going back to my office to brainstorm. I want to think of an idea that would be an industry first.

I’m all for industry firsts as long as they don’t require a bunch of silly hand movements. 

Dude, drop a real hint and quit teasing. Just say that it’s the new Zone of the Enders and get it over with.

Kojima’s secret game ‘an industry first’ [CVG]

Capcom’s Community Specialist, the amazing Shawn Baxter, and I had a moment to talk about what the gaming community can expect with Lost Planet 2’s ambitious multiplayer. Bigger and badder is the overall consensus when Capcom began building the multiplayer experience for its sci-fi sequel, and it handsomely delivers both.

The best part is you can sit there for the next three minutes and watch my interview… or you can login to Twitter right now and win yourself the opportunity to join the closed Lost Planet 2 Mulitplayer Beta!

Here’s how it works. Login in to your Twitter account now and make sure you’re following our Video.Destructoid Twitter account, @Vtoid.

Beta key for PlayStation 3, Tweet:
I Love @Vtoid for my Lost Planet 2 MP Beta codes for my @SonyPlayStation. Thx @Capcom_Unity! xoxo

Beta key for Xbox 360, Tweet:
I Love @Vtoid for my Lost Planet 2 MP Beta codes for my @Xbox360. Thx @Capcom_Unity! xoxo

We only have 25 Beta keys to give away for each console, and you must be following @Vtoid to receive your Direct Message with your code!

Good luck, and watch the video goodness while you’re at it!

Splinter Cell: Conviction? Conviction? The word doesn’t even fit. Yeah, the guy is crazy determined to find his kidnapped daughter and save the world and all of that, but I don’t see any conviction in a guy that stops what he’s doing to drop a Tweet or two. The Sammy F. of the old days would never stop for social networking. Now he’s washed up. I bet he makes Twitter App recommendations to thugs now as a form of torture.

If you still believe in his conviction, you can read what’s going on with Sam Fisher on his Twitter feed: Real_SamFisher. Sure, he’s not talking about the lovely butternut squash soup he had for lunch, but he’s still stopping to Tweet.

“I’m being set up. I need to find out who killed my daughter. Please help me,” his bio says.

Dude, I’ll help you if you hit me back on Follow Friday.

Little known fact: the General Knoxx of “The Secret Armory of General Knoxx,” the upcoming third Borderlands DLC expansion, is a real person. Well, real enough to have a Twitter account at least.

“okay. so my secretary signed me up for this thing.apparently i have to be careful about how many words i type or it won’t send the entire me,” he writes before running out of characters in his introductory Tweet.

If you’re wondering what the deal with the lower-case is, Knoxx explains that “no one capitalizes in the future,” and that his “tweets time travel.” Knoxx has also already taken a picture of himself in a mirror with his “cellular ear ringer,” and has begun talking sh*t to fellow Twitter users.

“watch your step boy. i lost my eye in a fight with myself,” he threatens to one. “ps. i won.”

Rumor has it that General Knoxx just may be delivering some actual (useful?) information on the upcoming DLC, so he’s probably worth following his “tweetergrams.”