Halloween's just around the corner, and Blizzard's celebrating it too, with an interesting gaming twist! Blizzard's giving out Blizzards iPods to five lucky winners of the Blizzard Costume Contest, which is already ongoing.

Want to join? Well, if you're aged 15 and up, and happens to be residing in the specified countries (take a look at the bottom of the article), then just dress up as your favorite Blizzard character (any Blizzard game will do) and send in your photo via email. You need to take two pictures of yourself, one prior to the Blizzard character makeover (meaning, you should be in normal clothes), and another when you're in full Blizzard-character garb. Errr no, photoshoppery is banned in this contest, so stay away from photo modifications, alright?

All photos are to be submitted through the Contest Submission page, so better bookmark it now if you intend to join. They're accepting entries until November 1 only, so better get your creative juices flowing before Halloween. Want to know whether you're eligible or not? Check out the list below:

• Participants aged 15 or more residing in:
• France
• Belgium
• United Kingdom
• Luxembourg
• Participants aged 18 or more residing in:
• Germany
• Austria
• Sweden
• Finland
• Denmark
• Norway
• The Netherlands
• Spain
• Ireland

Remember, this is a Blizzard Costume Contest, so stray away from that Spongebob Squarepants costume of yours, alright?

Alright, let's get a little situationer going on. Say you're a former World of Warcraft gamer but you quit because all the grinding and the questing just didn't do it for you anymore. Then some friends or family members ask you to play again. Now you're thinking, "Hey, maybe it would be fun to play with everyone," but then again the reason you quit playing WoW in the first place is still haunting you. What would you do?

In one guy's case - Juffowup in the game and in the WoW forums - playing again was the taken option, but that option had a little addendum added to it: reach level 60 without wearing any armor. Yes folks, this guy walked around killing stuff without any clothes on. Alright, for the prudishly-inclined out there his character did have on the standard loincloth thingy that naked characters are forced to wear in-game, but then that's just the way naked characters are drawn in WoW so equipment-wise he was as naked as a newborn baby.

If you play on the Mal'Ganis server and saw a naked troll walking around, then that's probably Juffowup. Kudos for doing something that's never (as far as we know) been done before. For the full story, click on the 'read' link below.

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