Runes of Magic to host Christmas contest

Runes of Magic will be having a special Christmas contest during the in-game “Snowflake Festival.” The Creative Christmas Contest will take photographed submissions of player’s creative expressions about Christmas and Runes of Magic; one of the prizes includes a Runes of Magic customized ROCCAT mouse. The team will also be sharing their own work via an Advent calendar.

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Runes of Magic Christmas competition

Fabulous hardware prizes and ROCCAT Kone Unikat to be won

Berlin, 3 December 2009: Christmas time is also coming to Taborea: A whole host of special events and offers around the season of giving is set to get Runes of Magic fans in a proper Christmas mood.

In mid-December the online role-playing game will launch the ‘Snowflake Festival’, where the game world will take on a festive look. With the release of daily quests, adventurers will be able to play for gifts. Festive furniture as well as Christmas tree seeds, will invite adventurers to decorate their in-game houses.

But there are also solid prizes to be won in the Advent period: In the ‘The Creative Christmas Contest’ Runes of Magic fans can give their creativity free rein. Anything’s possible as long as it can be photographed. The best submissions will be awarded prizes: The top prize along with hardware such as flat-screen monitors and graphics cards is the ROCCAT Kone Max Customization Gaming Mouse, which is up for grabs with a unique hand-painted Runes of Magic design. The ROCCAT mouse, highly praised in the specialist press, is especially suited to RPG players, thanks to its macro capability. The official page gives more information: www.runesofmagic.com

Those who wish to take a look behind the scenes of Runes of Magic will find exactly what they want with this year’s advent calendar: Each day leading up to Christmas a little door will open to reveal exclusive artwork, screenshots, or pictures from the team. Here is the link to the calendar: www.runesofmagic.com/en/content.php?show=events.adventcalendar