Two new free MMORPGs

Hey Gamers and especially MMORPGamers.
There are two new MMORPGs which I have to mention here, because they seem to have a lot of potential.

The first one is called "Runes of Magic". The graphic looks very nice and the gameplay seems to be interesting. The classes are as usual Warrior, Scout, Rogue, Mage, Priest, Knight. The only available race is Humans. The game is free, also the playing and it is available in English AND in German too, that's a plus. The open beta is starting on 15.12.2008 !!



The second game is "Requiem - Bloody Mare". It is a horror MMORPG and this is quite a new topic. As far as I know the only or first MMORPG which claims the horror topic. I tested it and I have to say, the graphic is really fine, and the game seems to have good potential.
Four races, each race two joblines (magical, combat) and for each jobline two classes. In the end there are 16 classes. It is only available in English.

Here is a video to the game:



The game is starting with age 17, so nothing for kiddies.

Have Fun!

Christmas traditions Steyr PART 3 - Christmas Market

Christmas market (Christkindlmarkt) is one of the most common and well known christmas traditions. It starts with the first advent weekend, sometimes even one weekend before.
They have a lot of stalls, starting with traditionell handicraft, christmas decoration, presents, sweets, eating and drinking.


Most popular drinks are Glühwein and Punsch. You have to drink it when you are in Austria during Winter/Christmas.

Steyr for example has one market in the town center, one in the city park, one in Garsten, and a lot more around Steyr.
You also find big christmas markets in Linz.

and a lot of other towns everywhere in Austria.

By the way, we already heard that Steyr is the Christkindl Town, but we have the Christkind also in person, here is the official Steyrer Christkindl:



We have a lot more to offer, but to tell everything would be to much for a blog, you will find information at Steyr Info and all over the internet. Have Fun!

Christmas traditions Steyr PART 2 - Christkind

As I mentioned in Part 1, the gift bringer in the most European and Christian countries is the Christkind.
Steyr has a part of the city which is called Christkindl. It is a pilgram location with a "holy" wax figures, stories tell that it has healing power.
However, Christkindl has also a post office, where everybody (of course mostly children) can send there christmas wishes straight to the Christkind itself.

Here is a photo of the post office:


Steyr also has a Christmas museum, kind of "rollercoaster" with really icky stuff. Here is a short "promotion" video.

So if you like this kind of stuff, you should visit it ;) For children it is nice for sure, I'm personally not really interested in that aspect of christmas *gg*. More to come about christmas traditions in Part 3.

In castle Lamberg we also have a advent/christmas exhibition, here is a video for that:

Christmas traditions Steyr PART 1 - Perchten

Steyr is a christmas town. Why? Because a place of pilgrimage next to Steyr is called Christkindl (Christkind). So we are the hometown of the Christkind in Austria. Therefore we celebrate christmas every year with a lot of traditionell celebrations.

One is called "Perchtenlauf".
We have Nikolaus (looks like Santa Claus, but is based on a real person called Nicolaus, he was a saint some hundred years ago). Nikolaus rewards well-behaved children, and the Krampus or Percht he comes for the not so well-behaved children ;)

Last weekend was this kind of Perchtenlauf in Steyr, here are some photos of this event (the photos are taken from e-steyr.com made by Peter Kainrath:







I heard, that there have been about 680 (!) different Perchten-masks, they came from all around Austria and even Germany. Quite scary, but the children love them, some are scared at the beginning, but learn fast that this are only masks and underneath are humans ;)
This is one tradition, more traditions in Part 2.