The announcement brings joy, New Year on Gamer.ru - always real! 2014, we are waiting for you!

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Ho-ho-ho, my friends, Merry Christmas in advance! We love the New Year very much because it’s a great excuse to sit under the Christmas tree, eat salads, finally take a break from you, and also an opportunity to make you happy and hand you a bag of goodies for your lovely eyes. And your eyes are indeed very beautiful, and we love and appreciate all of you very much, so we have a lot of different things in this promotion! Buckle up, deliciousness is coming!

As you can see, this year our celebration finally has its own platform. In this section, we have our own atmosphere designed to create a festive mood for everyone who enters. Christmas trees, falling snow, tempting gifts, all the works. All the New Year's joys have been moved here. By the way, our New Year’s theme is not just the background of the section.

Firstly, for the duration of the holidays (which means from now until the end of January), you can set this design as the main skin of Grushka (provided you have a VIP account). However, there will be no falling snow so that no one gets overwhelmed by the load. You can change the skin in your account actions: click the arrow next to your nickname, select the option "Change skin on Gamer.ru" and enjoy life.

Secondly, for the same period (until January 31 inclusive), we have a New Year’s comment highlight (activated by clicking on comments), completely free of charge and also very cute, with a little house. Use it, spread the holiday spirit to the masses and highlight your joyful positive thoughts!

Our good bot [Ded Moroz](/@Дед Мороз) has been released from solitary confinement for good behavior. Until Old New Year, he will be running around Gamer and randomly adding points to your posts. Grandpa is cool and will gift you +14 to your karma and also leave you a note of why you are great. Look for this jolly old man in the comments.

Throughout the entire New Year’s event (that is, until Old New Year), the sheep feature will disappear: it's out of season. So instead of sheep, we will have a reindeer. With large antlers, a kind soul, and a festive spirit. We consulted on what the reindeer might say, but couldn't come to a conclusion, so our reindeer will simply say, "Happy New Year, with new happiness!".

Reindeernization is available from level 17 and costs the same 500 energy.

Friends, we love with all our hearts those who not only relax during the holidays but also write good content. Therefore, for all posts written up until Old New Year (that is, by January 14 inclusive), we will give a bonus. For any good and worthy post (review, preview, walkthrough, guide), you will receive between 3 to 5 GG and between 10 to 30 experience.

3 GG and 10 experience for review and preview, 5 GG and 30 experience for guide and tutorial. Post candidates can be sent to my personal messages in Contest. Bonuses will be credited after the campaign ends, when I return from my winter break (I need a break too, you know. At least sometimes :-P).

We are starting the traditional treasure chest shootouts. First on the agenda are the small cheerful chests with souvenirs and gifts. In these golden boxes, there are New Year’s gifts from our store (various Christmas trees, ornaments, mandarins), as well as modest bonuses in the form of 10 and 30 experience. Congratulate your friends and celebrate the holiday.

Regular chests cost 100 energy and can be opened for free. You can gift them to both friends and yourself. They will be in the giveaway until Old New Year.

We also have a special type of chests: ice chests, straight from Santa Claus's residence. They hold all the most delicious and wonderful prizes we've prepared for you. Thanks to our partners, these truly magical New Year’s helpers for their assistance: such a variety of prizes and gifts hasn’t been seen in our promotions before!

Inside the chests is a whole bunch of goodies from our friends (a brief overview is mentioned below, and detailed info is here). You can also get bonuses of 50 and 100 experience, a month of VIP, double experience, and a level 3 shield from the ice chests.

Spells and bonuses are infinite, while goodies are finite. The ice chest giveaway will end on January 14 (or when all the goodies have been won, if you don’t manage to grab them by Old New Year).

They cost just 300 energy (meaning you can shower your friends with gifts). Opening a chest costs 1 gold (if you open it yourself) or 0.5 gold (if for someone else). Want to save? Go socialize.

I’m pleased to inform you that this year our New Year’s activity is supported by our friends from AMD! Over the past year, these solid yet warm-hearted guys have held three contests with us, several promotions, countless giveaways, and I hope they will continue our friendship in the coming year. All for you and your beautiful eyes and computers! AMD has also presented us a contest graphics card AMD Radeon™ HD 7770. It’s a twin sister of the card we gave away in the last blogging contest. With it, Lara Croft's hair becomes even silkier, and games fly as smoothly as your Batman. Additionally, AMD will give you some branded t-shirts. Plus, we will be giving away 30 silver bundles with AMD games, including the new Thief from 2014. And judging by preliminary evaluations, it’s going to be quite a gem!

Of course, hardware is a great gift for a gamer. But we know how much you love games. And another wizard "Gamazavr" knows that too. "Gamazavr" is not just the largest digital distribution service, with those friendly eyes and a green dinosaur, it’s also the best friend of your favorite Gamer Weekly. I’m happy to report that in the New Year our friendship will continue, but for now, "Gamazavr" is giving you a bunch of games. Be cautious, the deliciousness is overwhelming:

• pre-order on Watch_Dogs

• pre-order on [Diablo III](/games?search=Diablo III): Reaper of Souls (Russian version)

• pre-order on Titanfall

• pre-order on Might and Magic Legacy

• pre-order on [Assassin's Creed](/games?search=Assassin's Creed) Liberation HD

• [Assassin's Creed IV](/games?search=Assassin's Creed IV) Black Flag

Dishonored GOTY Edition

Batman Arkham Origins

• [BioShock Infinite](/games?search=BioShock Infinite): Burial at Sea

• [Total War: Rome 2](/games?search=Total War: Rome 2). Caesar in Gaul

Not long ago, Gamer.ru began mobilization, and as you know, the beta version for Android is already being tested in full swing. Therefore, our holiday couldn’t do without mobile devices, which were provided by our friends from Ritmix (otherwise Grandpa would have gotten lost!). Ritmix has a fantastic variety, and this New Year they will gift someone a couple of Android-based tablets. Model number one is the new RMD-910 with a 9-inch screen, a dual-core processor, two cameras, and other delightful features. Model number two is another new product, the sleek, fast RMD-785 model with a diagonal of 7.85 inches, quad-core processors, and a higher-capacity battery. Both devices come with cases to help keep your tablets looking pristine for longer.

Hold on a second! You’re going to play with these. So without devices from our next wizard, you won’t get by. Thermaltake and Tt eSPORTS are crashing our party, which would definitely be less festive without them. They’ll put some cool devices under your Christmas tree. First of all, there are the amazing stylish headphones Shock Dynamite Orange in a rad orange color with quality sound, excellent fit, and good noise isolation. Secondly, right under the Christmas tree, there’s already waiting for you the keyboard Challenger with multimedia keys, a fan for your hands, and a USB port built right in. Thirdly, we have an external sound card Bahamut for hardcore enthusiasts. You can set the sound to your liking as you wish.

And finally, we have two life-easing devices. This is a laptop cooling stand LifeCool II and a USB charger TriP Portable Power Pack, which serves as a portable "battery" for any portable device. Hooray for Thermaltake (by the way, they recently came to befriend us, don’t offend them, they’re nice people!).

Ho-ho-ho, that's not all! We have a lot of devices, thanks to the store Fucken.pro, which has already been charming us with gifts for a while now, as well as the brand Tesoro, whose aluminum devices we recently explored in a guide contest. Here’s the list of devices they put in Santa Claus's bag. First of all, it’s a kick-ass gaming mouse Qcyber Weles, which will impress even the most demanding gamers with its features and settings. Secondly, there’s a programmable membrane keyboard Ozone Blade with two colors of backlighting and a gold-plated USB.

Additionally, we have awesome headphones Tesoro Kuven 7.1, which offer a comfortable fit, good noise isolation, and high-quality stereo sound. Also, stopping by for the holiday is the mouse Tesoro Shrike, which is built excellently, glides smoothly on the mousepad, and delights the gamer’s heart with a plethora of flexible settings. Such gifts for gamers.

Besides all this, gamers love gaming paraphernalia. That’s why "Novy Disk", which is about to gift us a new "Thief", is putting 3 bundles based on [Splinter Cell: Blacklist](/games?search=Splinter Cell: Blacklist) into your chests. Each set includes a t-shirt with the game's logo, a gun-shaped flash drive, a "three-eyed" keychain (you know what I mean), and a PlayStation 3 game in a promo box in Russian. Grab it while you can!

Both golden chests and ice chests cannot be opened until New Year. After that, help yourself. The gift inside the chest is generated at the moment of opening, so there you go.

If by chance you didn't manage to farm enough gold over the past year, here’s a bonus for you. Log in each day this week to Grushka and receive 1 GG. That’s enough to open a dozen chests, armed with the support of friends.

That’s the scoop, friends. Let the New Year’s fun begin! Happy holidays to everyone, hooray! :3

P.S. Friends, a gentle request: please do not give ice chests to the admins. Due to our activity, we have good chances of dropping something worthwhile from them. If you want to make us happy, a golden chest, a kind word in the comments and personal messages, or a good post will be more than enough, trust me. \_