Update: We’re extending the competition to Twitter followers, so you don’t need to be signed up to our forum.
Simply post – "RT to win a PS Vita with Pure Chess – http://tinyurl.com/cyrqccx" from your Twitter account.
The competition has also been extended until midnight on the 29th April, 2012.
Read below for details and you can now enter via the forums or on Twitter.
Okay, so we might spend most of our free time these days straining our eyes playing games in front of a 42” screen, but board games do occasionally provide a nice little distraction away from the hullabaloo of first-person shooters, and back in our school days we did enjoy the challenge and strategic depth that a good game of chess offers.
It’s good to see then that U.K. based developer Ripstone has taken the popular two-player board game and brought it to the PSN complete with a range of detailed chess pieces, 1080p visuals, tournaments, tutorials and the opportunity to take on other chess players in the ultimate game of skill and wits.
Pure Chess has been available to download on PSN for a couple of weeks now, but this week also sees the launch of the PS Vita version, which means that you can now play Pure Chess on the move at your convenience.
To celebrate its release, Ripstone has joined forces with PlayStation Universe to giveaway a PlayStation Vita console, a large garden chess set and a copy of Pure Chess on PSN.
To enter you need to be registered on our forums and be from the U.K.
Here’s what you need to do:
Step 1: If you haven’t already, register on the PlayStation Universe forums
Step 2: Visit the Pure Chess website and check out the list of game features
Step 3: Visit this forum thread and tell us what your favourite game feature is and why
Step 4: Check out the thread on Friday April 27th to see if you won!
The winner will be drawn at random from all sensible answers posted in the forums. The winner will have to provide a UK address otherwise the prize will be forfeited and we will choose another winner.
If you’re not lucky enough to win but still want to get your hands on Pure Chess, it’s available now via the PlayStation Store on PS3 and PS Vita.