Aha, look what we got from John Baez: "Independent game and toy developer The Behemoth announced today the first shipment of exclusive handmade trophies honoring the top players of Alien Hominid HD on Xbox Live Arcade". And more to the point, there's a special 'making of' page showing how the trophies were constructed.

Why is this cool? Because physical objects are still completely awesome for awards/special editions, even though XBLA-stylee digital downloads work awesome for delivering games. And what other game developer would have a paragraph like this on their site?

"At first we thought we could laser engrave the base, but we could not find anyone who had a laser with a spindle in the San Diego area... Thank goodness Al Gore invented the internet, otherwise we'd all still be living in caves. After a fairly short web search our solution became apparent...use photo etching for the base!"

It's explained on The Behemoth's homepage: "If you're not certain how to enter our competition, it's simple! First make sure you have a Xbox 360, then you need to log-on to the Xbox Live Arcade service and download Alien Hominid HD (only 800 Microsoft Points!) Finally, you need to be the top scorer in any of theese three categories: Alien Hominid HD (Main Game - Hard Difficulty), All You Can Eat (Weekly Ranked Match), PDA Games (Monthly Ranked Match)." More info on the Alien Hominid leaderboard page, of course.