It looks like NCsoft is getting into the holiday spirit rather early as it features the Wintersday 2007 Contest for the Guild Wars MMORPG. The game developers at ArenaNet want to base the next Grenth Wintersday helm off the winning entry submitted by the players.

In the yearly Wintersday battles between Dwayna and Grenth, players may actually be wearing your winning design as they fight it out on the frozen battlegrounds. Check out the contest details and prizes right after the jump!

 

Heads up, Tabula Rasa fans, it seems the AFS is looking for a few good photo manipulators. We've just received word that NCSoft is sponsoring a wallpaper creation contest, with big prizes in store for the best looking wallpapers. All you have to do is use the game's assets to make your very own wallpaper for the game, save it in multiple sizes, and send it to the them and you're all set.

According to the contest details, there will be a total of six winners: one grand prize winner, second place and third place winners, and three runners-up. To pique your interest in the contest, here's what the grand prize winner will receive:

• 1 Antec Neo Power 650 Blue (a 650 watt PSU with a Blue LED fan)
• 1 Antec Nine Hundred - Ultimate Gamer Case
• 1 Zboard Gaming Keyboard by Ideazon
• 1 Ideazon Tabula Rasa Keyset
• 1 Ideazon Tabula Rasa FragMat Mouse Pad
• 1 Ideazon Reaper Gaming Mouse
• 1 Tabula Rasa Duffle Bag
• 1 Tabula Rasa T-shirt
• 1 Tabula Rasa Challenge Coin
• 1 Tabula Rasa Beanie

That's certainly a lot of free swag for making an awesome wallpaper! To view the contest details, feel free to visit the read link below for more details. Good luck!

Playing high-end games like Halo 2 on your PC isn't as simple as popping in the disc, installing the game, and running it. A lot of times, you need to have the best hardware possible to run the application smoothly.

This can be quite tricky for the non-tech savvy crowd because of the ever-evolving specs of today's computers. Fortunately, there are people who care about guys like that.

A-Power has taken the liberty of custom-building the best possible system to run Halo 2 and making it available to the market. The machine is loaded with some pretty big specs, which will ensure that you can run pretty much everything currently on the market. What's more, even the case is customized to feed that Halo craving. These are the complete specs of their offered bundle:

• Processor: Intel Pentium CORE 2 DUO E6600 2.4GHz 4MB
• Memory: OCZ Gold XTC OCZ2G8002GK 2x1GB DDR2 800Mhz
• Mainboard: ASUS P5K Deluxe P35 Chipset DDR2 S/PDIF Out (Coaxial + Optical), DTS Connect & IEEE1394 Firewire
• Optical Drive: Samsung SH-S182F/BEBN Black 18x18 DL DVD Writer
• Hard Drive: Seagate 320GB 7200RPM SATA-II 16MB
• Video: eVGA E-GEFORCE 8600GTS 256M DDR3 PCI-E
• Audio: Realtek ALC883 6-channel (5.1) CODEC
• Network: Marvell 88E1116 PHY Gigabit LAN controller
• Case: Antec Nine Hundred Black 18.4" Ultimate Gamer Case
• Power: OCZ 700W GameXStream SLI Power Supply
• Keyboard: Microsoft Reclusa Gaming Keyboard
• Mouse: Microsoft Habu Gaming Mouse
• Included OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate (Direct X 10 Supported!!)
• FREE GAME! Halo 2 PC Edition (Limited Quantity)
  

This hotrod starts selling on May 22. The price is still unrevealed, but it obviously won't come cheap. We'll keep you posted for more on this dream machine.

For the dudes waiting for Namco Bandai's Warhammer: Mark of Chaos launch this November 14, we've got good news for you. iGames, along with Intel and Corsair, has just announced they'll be holding a one-day premier of the game this November 12 at 50 iGames member centers across North America, Mexico and Canada.

For anybody who's still having thoughts about going, we're also letting you know that there'll be special events during the premier, which gives you a chance to win any of these following prizes, worth US$ 4,000 in total.

• Intel – Intel Pentium D processors
• Corsair – Flash drives
• Western Digital – Raptor hard drives
• Logitech – Logitech G5 Laser mouse & G15 keyboard
• Antec – “Nine Hundred” case

Still can't make it? Don't worry - iGames will also be hosting a showcase of the game in 70 stores across the continent for two straight weeks. Starting November 13 until November 26, visitors will get a chance to play Mark of Chaos for an hour at these stores. For the full list of premiere and showcases addresses, feel free to visit the iGames main website.

This is good opportunity for you dudes out there to get a freebie chance to check out the game, to see for yourself if it matches up to its previous table-top incarnation, and the other Warhammer installments for the consoles and PC's.