Topic: Weird Wire™
We've heard of family squabbles, but this one may take the cake. According to KTLA comedian Sunda Croonquist's mother-in-law jokes may have struck a nerve, as she is now being sued by the family member for spreading false, defamatory lies with in-law jokes that have become a staple of her routine. The action seeks damages and demands that Croonquist remove any offensive statements from her Web site, routines and recordings. While Croonquist agreed to drop any language her family finds offensive in her act, she refuses to pay any settlement. That must be one tough crowd to entertain during the holidays. Read the full story at KTLA...

Topic: Members

Today is a day for the history books! Why? Because kendalline of Haleyville, AL, (pictured at left) became the first winner in our recently revised version of Magic 21!

Best of all, because this savvy card player is a GV Gold member, the stated jackpot in Magic 21 automatically doubled for her from $636 to $1,272--just like magic.

Congratulations, kendalline! 

Useless Fact! Haleyville, AL, is located in Winston/Marion county and is the proud home of the award-winning Haleyville High School Band. The band's last notable victory was in 2003 when they were crowned Grand Champion in a national competition.

Bonus Useless Fact! Bigfoot has been sighted in Winston/Marion county.

Topic: Best Pets
This week's Best Pet comes to us from Gamesviller April1721 of Schenectady, New York. Meet her cuddly little fighter, Cat Mandu!

Distinguishing Personality Traits

April1721 says, "This is Cat Mandu, our kitten we got from the shelter a little over five months ago. With a dangerously low white blood cell count he's been fighting for his life since we took him in. Cat Mandu often can't eat, drink or move quickly without some assistance. Even after all his fighting he still manages to cuddle up next to me and my husband and give us all the love he has in his little body. He is such a strong cat and I thank God everyday we gave him a safe and loving home to be a part of. I don't know what I would do without seeing his beautiful blue eyes everyday."

Want to share photos of your own favorite pet with the Gamesville community?

Send photos to: members@gamesville.com

In addition to your pet's picture, please be sure to include:

• Your Gamesville member name
• Your pet's most distinguishing personality trait

If we publish your pet as a "Best Pet," we'll give you 5,000 GV Rewards. Submit your pet today!

Topic: New Games
Magic 21 is now better than ever!

A couple of weeks ago we told you about some exciting surprises we had brewing here at GV HQ. Today we're giving you another big surprise, as we roll out another BIG improvement to one of our more popular game shows. Take a look at the all-new Flash version of our classic blackjack style game show, Magic 21:

What's new in Magic 21:

• Fastest Jackpot Increases On Gamesville
  The new Magic 21 features the fastest jackpot acceleration out of any Gamesville game, with jackpots soaring to the $777 max jackpot faster than ever!

• Special Double Jackpots
  Any GV Gold member who hits the jackpot automatically wins DOUBLE the current jackpot, up to a whopping $1,554 cash money!

• Updated Game Design and Stability
  A cleaner look, more responsive game play, and a redesigned chat room!

Play your cards right and you could be walking away with cold hard cash in no time. Play Magic 21 today and let us know what you think with your comments in the blog. Looking forward to seeing everyone in game!

Topic: New Features

This Thursday, August 27th we're premiering the brand new trivia style game with a catch, it's going to be conducted completely on Twitter! Introducing the first installment of Gamesville Twitter trivia, a new trivia game where we'll share trivia questions on our Twitter account for fun and prizes. We'll be rolling out this new game on Thursday of this week and if you're quick enough you could be walking away with 10,000 FREE GVs!

How To Play Gamesville Twitter Trivia

• Follow the Gamesville Twitter account on or before Thursday, August 27th.
• Beginning at 12pm noon on Thursday, August 27th we'll be posting one trivia question to our Twitter account every hour at the top of the hour until 5pm.
• Be the first to @ reply Gamesville on Twitter with the correct response to the trivia question with your gamesville member name and take home 10,000 FREE GVs--just like that!

UPDATE: Our first game of Twitter Trivia begins today at 12pm noon. If you don't already have a Twitter account head to Twitter.com to sign up for your own account and begin following Gamesville on Twitter to play! What are you waiting for? Sign up for Twitter and follow us today at noon for your chance at 10,000 FREE GVs and fun!

Topic: Members

A BIG congratulations are in order to Nanascandles51 of Branson, MO, who struck it rich TODAY and took home $802 in CatchUp CoverAll! And that's not all, because when Nanascandles51 hit the jackpot, four players with the same Lucky Ball choice each won $25 cash! Congratulations to all four of our Lucky Ball winners:

 

The legend of Sasquatch (the Native American term for Bigfoot) has existed for centuries. This elusive creature has been spotted throughout the Pacific Northwest as well as other parts of the world including China and Nepal. Now for the Bigfoot collector and cryptozoologist in all of us there is something totally unique to carry the legend along with you, the Sasqwatch! These solid, wilderness-tested, water resistant watches have been almost twenty years in the creation. Makes us wonder if it'll take another twenty to come out with the Abominable Snowman edition. Get your very own Sasqwatch today!

Topic: Best Pets
This week's Best Pet comes to us from Gamesviller Angelgaldonna of Parksville, BC. Meet her cuddly companion, Zeus!

Distinguishing Personality Traits

Angelgaldonna says, "Zeus was given to us by my husband's son two years ago and fit in very well. Zeus is pure white with one blue eye and one green eye. He is so lovable--he will literally hug me with both paws around my neck when I pick him up as well as rub our faces together and do a couple 'head-butts'.  He spends most days in the back yard hiding in a bushy area just watching the birds. His fur is the thickest I have ever seen on a cat; I've have to brush & comb him at least twice a week. He's sort of like a polar bear!"

Want to share photos of your own favorite pet with the Gamesville community?

Send photos to: members@gamesville.com

In addition to your pet's picture, please be sure to include:

• Your Gamesville member name
• Your pet's most distinguishing personality trait

If we publish your pet as a "Best Pet," we'll give you 5,000 GV Rewards. Submit your pet today!

Topic: New Features

 
Introducing the enhanced GV Rewards badges!

We've been teasing you all with several, special surprises later on this summer and today the first of them has finally arrived. Without further ado we're happy to announce the new, enhanced GV Rewards badges!

The same great style you've come to love, enhanced with expanded, original Gamesville artwork featuring the smaller sized badges each making a cameo in a scene with our good friend Poke the Penguin.

The new badges are available on your GV profile under the "badges" tab. Once there you can select which badge you'd like to display on your profile and in-game by selecting "See My Badges". Collect more GV Rewards to uncover new badges to display and show off to friends. Each badge can also be downloaded in "Full Size" to be used as a desktop wallpaper for your PC!

We hope you enjoy this enhancement to the GV Rewards badges! Please let us know your thoughts about the new and improved badges here in the comments section.

Topic: Spam Bag

From time to time we get a lot of weird requests and spam mail in the GV Members Inbox. We decided the best way to deal with all the spammers isn't to just "Send To Trash" but to share in the fun of openly mocking them with you, the GV community! Today we received a promotional opportunity from Mike...

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Good Morning,

I would be interested in finding out if there is an opportunity to quote your next promotional item project (apparel, pens, tote-bags, USB Flash Drives, etc.). We are the largest promotional products firm in Orlando, Florida, complete with in-house screen-printing and embroidery. In addition to having access to over 800,000 items we can put your logo on, we also have a graphic design team and fulfillment capabilities. If there is an opportunity, please reply and I will be in touch with more information, including our website and any current specials.

Thanks in advance for your consideration.

Mike
President
Orlando, Florida

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Hello Mike,

Thanks for bringing your services to our attention. While we currently offer a great selection of Gamesville branded swag at the Gamesville Prop Shop we're always interested in learning about new ways to promote our games. With that said, is one of your 800,000 available items a rollercoaster? I've also always wanted to see our logo on the space shuttle. Let me know what's available ASAP.

Thanks,

- Oh! Ryan Kelley
Gamesville Community Manager

Have some funny spam mail? Share it with the Gamesville community!

Forward terrible spam messages to: members@gamesville.com

In addition to your spammed message, please be sure to include:

• Your Gamesville member name
• Your response to the spammer
  

If we publish your mail in our "GV Spam Bag" we'll give you 5,000 GV Rewards. Submit your spam today!