Please be advised, Gamesville's database will be upgraded at 4AM eastern time on Friday, June 20, 2008. During that time, Gamesville games will not be available. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you very much for your patience.

Yesterday, we received a question asking how to export your Gamesville avatar for email.  This is a great question about which many of you may have been wondering.  Hopefully, this will help...

There are four options for downloading your avatar on this page.  You can download it as a 48x48 buddy icon for AIM, a 100x100 avatar for social networks like Facebook, a 150x235 avatar for your cell phone, or the full size - 300x400.

If you would like to add your avatar as a signature in your email, follow the following steps.  I will use Lycos Mail as an example.

1.  Upload your downloaded avatar to a photo client like Photobucket or Picasa - whatever you prefer.  Most of these sites have included an embed code, meaning the site generates a snippet of HTML that you can copy and paste to use photos you have uploaded on other websites.  On Picasa, you can find this HTML code under the option "Link to this photo," for example.

2.  Log into your Lycos Mail account and click "Options," and then find and click on the "Signature" link.

3. Here, you will find a box where you can add content for your signature.  In this box, paste the embed code for your avatar given to you by your photo client.  

4.  You will then see your avatar!  Now, simply click on the option for the signature you have created and your avatar will show up on the bottom of all of your emails.

If you use an email client other than Lycos Mail, you can find instructions regarding how to create a signature through the following links:

Yahoo! Mail

AOL Mail

Hotmail

We hope you find this helpful - let us know if you have any other questions. 

Special effects guru Stan Winston died this Sunday.  Stan is most well-known for his visual effects work on "Aliens", "Terminator 2: Judgment Day", and "Jurassic Park", for which he won Academy Awards. 

A pioneer in the world of visual effects, Stan was a co-founder of special effects companies Digital Domain, Stan Winston Digital, and Stan Winston Studios.  Most recently, he worked on special effects for the films "Iron Man" and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull". 

Personally, I will never forget sitting in the darkened movie theatre as a kid and watching the dinosaurs of  "Jurassic Park" come alive in the most eye-popping and thrilling of manners.  Stan created some of cinema's most imaginative and enduring images that will live on through new and old movie fans for years to come.  He was truly a genius of the entertainment industry.

Here's a clip show of some of Winston's best work. 

Please note, Gamesville's database is going to be upgraded at 4AM eastern time on Tuesday, June 17, 2008. During that time--which should only be a few minutes--Gamesville games will not be available. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

Sincerely,
Chris Cummings
Manager, Gamesville.com 

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Hi all,

We regret the disruptions over the past several days.  Thanks to our team - who have worked long hours this week - we believe that we have resolved the site-wide game freezing issues many experience.  We are working to make GV Rewards updates more frequent. While we implement a better fix, we will only update your profiles with newly awarded GV Rewards about once an hour. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience. The popularity of the new Bingo Zone surprised even us, so we're adding extra capacity to ensure a smoother experience for all.

Thanks!

As all Gamesvillers know, playing games - online or off - can be pretty addictive.  But the best time to play is probably not when you are serving your civic duty. 

A judge in Sydney, Australia recently had to excuse a trial in which the jurors were a little too distracted by a popular word game.

From the article:

An Australian drug trial lasting more than three months and costing taxpayers over $947,000 has been aborted after a number of jurors were found to have spent up to half the time doing Sudoku puzzles.

"Some of the evidence is rather drawn out and I find it difficult to maintain my attention the whole time," [one] juror was quoted saying by the Australian Associated Press.

Game Three of the NBA Finals took place in Los Angeles last night.  While the Celtics had been leading 2-0, the Lakers took the game last night on their home turf.   The next two games - now needed - will be played at the Staples Center in Los Angeles at which point the series will return to Beantown. 

So, Gamesvillers, which team are you rooting for this June?

Please be advised: There is an issue with the timer, most visibly in some Magic 21 and Bingo Zone games, but a few other games as well. This issue is being investigated, and we hope to have it resolved soon. As soon as a fix is in place, we'll let you know. Thank you for your patience, and your patronage. It's our goal to have this resolved quickly and with as little disruption as possible.

Sincerely,
Chris Cummings
Manager, Gamesville.com

UPDATE TUESDAY 4:20 PM ET

A release has just gone out that should alleviate the timer/"freezing" issue. If you continue to experience issues with your game freezing, please send customer service the text from your computer's Java console ASAP. (How do I send Gamesville my Java console info?)

UPDATE WEDNESDAY 8:00 AM ET

Last night's update helped some of you, but not all. Thank you to everyone who sent us their Java logs. We're pouring over those documents now, identifying trends, and will issue another release shortly.

UPDATE THURSDAY 6:15 PM ET

PLEASE NOTE: GV Rewards won are being credited to accounts, but not currently in real-time; it may take several hours or longer for them to appear. We are currently working to resolve these issues and apologize for any inconvenience.