Was it really only two weeks a go that we hosted Free Stuff Friday? Well, I guess it was. Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun? So what have we got for you this week?

This week’s prizes:

1) Ultra-rare Sonic The Hedgehog t-shirt from Japan
This is a very special and rare Sonic the Hedgehog t-shirt, created for Sonic Chronicles in Japan was not made available outside there. The t-shirt is in a child-friendly size ‘medium’

2) Autographed copy of Football Manager 2010
Miles Jacobson, studio director at Football Manager developers Sports Interactive kindly signed this copy of the number 1 football management game; In gold ink too. The pen was mine by the way and did not belong to Miles. But I imagine he has his own collection of pens.

3) A pair of SEGA t-shirts size M and lanyard
If you love t-shirts (and who doesn’t right?), you’ll go gaga for this pair of delightful sports shirts with the SEGA logo cunningly placed on both the front and back! I imagine they’re worth more than regular single-sided printed t-shirts because of the extra letters. I’m also going to throw in a special Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games medal/lanyard – so you can recreate the medal giving ceremony of your favourite sporting event in the comfort of your own home!! How cool is that?

4) Valkyria Chronicles artbook and figurine
Something for you Valkyria Chronicles fans now, a limited edition artbook and a sealed, never-opened Valkyria Chronicles figurine from Japan. We have no idea which one is in the box, it could be one of seven different models of some of the many in-game characters.

5) Signed, and framed poster for The Conduit
Signed by literally the entire HVS team, this presentation piece of cover artwork from The Conduit is framed and can be freestanding or put on the wall to make it exactly 206.4% cooler.

6) A copy of Empire: Total War and graphics card
Control armies who fight on their legies and also in boaties with a copy of Empire: Total War on the PC. We’re also going to throw in a 9600GT GeForce graphics card too just in case your current card can’t handle the sheer awesomeness that is Empire: Total War

Rules of the game:

1. You must be following us on Twitter to be eligible. (If you don’t have a Twitter account, you can create one by going to http://www.twitter.com and click the green “get started — join!” button in the center of the page.)
2. At random times on Friday, we will announce the prize we are giving away, and what number of response you need to be to win. Send us a direct message (DM) via Twitter and be that number to win the prize. (@ replies do not count as entries!)
3. All followers are eligible to win all prizes, unless a restriction is noted. Restrictions are usually due to the prize being region-locked. For example, US games that won’t work on UK gaming systems. There may also be age restrictions due to the rating of the game.
4. We will announce the winner on our Twitter feed once eligibility is confirmed.

Make Sure We’re Following You on Twitter

If you are currently following us on Twitter, please be sure that we are following you as well. You can do this by making sure that SEGA is in your “followers” list, or by going to DoesFollow and typing SEGA in the first blank, your Twitter username in the second, and pressing the “check” button. You can reverse this to be sure that you are following us. If you are following us, but we’re not following you, please send a message to @SEGA and we will follow you. This is important, because only people we follow can send us direct messages (DMs), and DMs are the only way to enter the giveaways.

How to send a DM:

There are a few ways to send us a Direct Message on Twitter. The easiest way is to go to our Twitter page and select “message” under the “Actions” heading in the side bar. If you do not see “message”, this means that we are not following you. Please send a message to @sega to let us know, and we will follow you. When you click “message” you will be taken to a window where you can type a message and press send.

You may also select the “direct messages” tab from your Twitter homepage, and select SEGA from the drop-down menu at the top of the page. Again, if you don’t see our name there, it’s probably because we’re not following you. Let us know, and we’ll follow you.

There are also many Twitter clients that you can use instead of using the website. These include TweetDeck, Twitteriffic, Tweetie, and Twhirl. Each of these programs works differently, so you’ll want to figure out how to send a direct message on the program you use. If you want to send us a test message, we’ll let you know if we received it or not.