To help celebrate the success of their new game, publisher Vivendi Universal is adding copies of The Bards Tale to the Game Industry News Prize pool. Each week one lucky winning reader can take their pick from the pool.

"We always try to make sure the best prizes are available for our readers," said Nate Wooley, publisher of GiN. "The Bards Tale game is so fun to play and earned a perfect 5 GiN Gem score in our review. Now readers have a chance to win this clever title from developer inExile."

Each week's winning gamer can specify if they would like the game in either PS2 or Xbox format.

Most role-playing games either take themselves too seriously or degrade into mindless click-fests where the only goal is to slay the next monster again and again and again.

That won't happen with The Bard's Tale because in addition to having a pretty detailed plot, the game is chocked so full of humor you will at times think your television has accidentally slipped off your game channel and over to a Saturday Night Live broadcast. The game borrows jokes both liberally and subtly from such diverse sources as Monty Python, Scooby Doo and Highlander in addition to having a lot of original humor.

As a special promotion, you can also sign up for the Vivendi newsletter at http://subscribe.vugames.com/, so you will never be without Vivendi games news.