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In respect to the continuing Guild Wars third anniversary coverage, we're proud to announce an important new promotion from the good folks at ArenaNet. The Guild Wars Third Anniversary Sweepstakes runs from April 28th until May 31st with the actual drawing itself being conducted on June 11th, 2008. Not only is this one easy to enter for anyone, but it includes some pretty sweet real-world prizes.

One lucky grand prize winner will receive a powerful Alienware Area-51 laptop, while other prizes include an ATI Radeon HD 3870 video card, a Logitech 5.1 speaker system and many more valuable peripheral hardware devices. Be sure to read the entire rules on the main website and tell 'em Massively sent you! No, seriously, it would be awesome of you.

If you're looking forward to Stargate Worlds, chances are that you're a fan of the franchise, and that means you watch Stargate Atlantis. So while you're probably going to be tuning in to January 4th's mid-season premiere of Atlantis anyway, we thought we'd give you this heads up: the first Stargate Worlds trailer will premiere during Atlantis this week.

That's not all. Starting January 11th (they just love making us keep track of all these dates), the Sci-Fi Channel will be airing "gate codes" during Atlantis episodes, and those gate codes will let you enter a sweepstakes to have your "image or likeness incorporated into" Stargate Worlds.

So there's your heads up.

[Via GateWorld]

The TR-Roleplayers are holding their 2007 Christmas Sweepstakes, but you only have a few days left to enter. So how do you do that?

• Register on the TR-Roleplayers forums
• Write a bad ass story (around 2,000 words) about your virtual soldiers first Christmas off Earth
• Upload it to the 2007 Christmas Sweepstakes forum before December 24th, 11:59 PM Eastern
• Pray

If your story is chosen the best of the bunch (based on creativity, story flow, grammar and spelling) by the panel of volunteer judges you'll win a brand new Zboard, a Limited Edition Tabula Rasa Keyset, and a Tabula Rasa Fragmat. Now that's some serious bling for a 2,000 word short story! Heck, I think I'll enter! The winner will be announced sometime in early January 2008.

Best of luck to you recruit.

O hai, have you come back for free stuff? We've been expecting you! Today's theme is a salute to the classic MMOs of the past. How many folks here played UO back in the day (how many do still?)? Where my DAoC vets at? Even EQ is still kicking. In honor of a wide variety of titles, our prizes today are something that can help you be more ergonomic in all of them: two Belkin Nostromo N52 SpeedPads. Want to win one? Leave a comment in this thread by 10am EST Monday morning November 5. You need to be 18 and live in the US to enter (official rules!). We'll choose one random winner from the comments of this post, and tune in later today for another chance to win an N52 gamepad!

Yes, we held this closely guarded secret deep, deep inside. The underground bunker was kept airtight; no leaks escaped. We kept it secret; we kept it safe... oops, wrong IP! Okay, okay, so we're terrible at keeping secrets. We hope all is forgiven for a chance to win what must be one of the few remaining BlizzCon murloc suits left... or not! But ours is better because it's free. You wanna win this thing? We'll keep the entries open for two full days. Leave a comment in this thread by 3pm EST Monday, November 5 telling us the first thing you'll do in-game once you activate your murloc suit. And here's the best part: this contest is open to everyone regardless of age or where you live in the world. That's right -- anyone can enter. So get to it!

Yep, it's still WoW day here at Massively, and we're giving away the last of our 60-day game cards of the day right now so gather 'round! By now you should know the drill -- please be 18. Please live in the US. Please be aware of these official rules. We all set? Eggselent -- now quick, go comment in this thread! You have until 1pm EST tomorrow, Sunday November 4 to get your entry in. One lucky bastard winner will be chosen at random to take home this bee-yoo-tee-ful prize. Very nice!

Oh, but the day is not yet over, my friends. You'll want to check back again for a special, uber-secret prize. You can scour the interwebs but you won't even find a shred nor scrap of evidence regarding what we're giving away. It's so secret, we won't even let ourselves know what it is until 3pm EST. Oops, did we let the kick-off time slip out?

We conducted some recent focus group research and made an astonishing discovery: people like free stuff. Therefore, to celebrate the kick-off of this here blog, we are giving away boatloads of stuff -- every day for the next two weeks we'll have some amazing giveaways lined up. There will be something for you whether you play Lord of the Rings Online, Guild Wars, EVE Online, or any other of a number of current MMOs.

So what do you have to do to win free stuff? Just check in with us every day for the next week and see what we have to offer -- you can always find out what contests are currently running at this link.

We're kicking off day 1 with a non-stop series of 24 hours' worth of Tabula Rasa giveaways -- you'll have no less than 24 chances to win some cool TR schwag today. Everything kicks off at 8am EST, so tune in for some fun and prizes. Say what you want about Massively, but don't say we never gave ya nothin'!

Since Massively and Tabula Rasa share the same birthday, we decided we had to celebrate big. Plus, when we toured their offices recently, NCsoft inundated us with such a mountainous pile of schwag that we needed a shopping cart to even get it out to the car -- and we're giving all of it to you.

Get ready for 24-hours' worth of TR lewts; we'll be running a new contest every hour on the hour starting at 8am EST today. If you want to score some great stuff including posters, hats, duffel bags, display boxes, a digital voice recorder, copies of Tabula Rasa and an iPod nano, you'll have to check back here and leave some comments on our sweepstakes posts throughout the day (we hope you'll check out our other great content, too!). You can always find the most currently running contest at this link.

Good luck to everyone who enters!