There are many excellent resources out there that contain a wealth of information on Runes of Magic, such as the RoMwiki. But many of the best game guides are found in the Community Game Guides section of the forum. But because there is so much information on the forum, we want to start shining a weekly spotlight on some of the more well-constructed guides.

This week, the spotlight is on the Bolinthya Rift Guide, posted by forum member, EsxCape. The Bolinthya Rift is an instance full of danger and can be very easy to get lost in. Fortunately, now you can grab your guild and have a good idea what to expect when venturing into this deadly area.

RoMCast is an audio podcast hosted by Swag that contains a lot of great news and information about Runes of Magic.

In this episode, Autopsy gets a hotfix, we have two special guests to talk about rogues and the newest Chapter IV announcements, Swag reads and answers your mail, and much more!

CLICK HERE to listen via the blog.

CLICK HERE to listen in iTunes.

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To be continued ...

The guild costume contest has concluded! Congratulations to the members of the Elites guild who sent in creative screenshots of their Guild Castle and guild members. The members in the screenshot will receive unique Nordic costumes designed by concept artist Eva Widermann.

The guild members said they had an awesome time taking the screenshots and showed a lot of pride in their guild, calling it “One of the Best Guilds Possible.” The full interview with the winning guild and pictures of member posing together are on our blog.

Runes of Magic is still getting lots of positive press coverage, including being mentioned by Jon Wood as one of the Five Most Interesting MMO's of 2009. We're excited to be included on this list, and proud to be called "a nice-looking game that looked like a real competitor to its AAA P2P counterparts."

The "Share Your Story" contest is underway, with players submitting a range of stories, including well-written epics, comedic situations and suspenseful accounts of battle. There's still time to join in the storytelling, but the contest ends Oct. 8, so don't miss the chance to win this contest and the chance to get your story featured on our blog! Stories can be submitted in this forum thread.

Finally, follow GM Eres on Twitter as Rom_Eres to get a chance to win exciting prizes! The details of this interactive contest will be announced Oct. 5.

We have a winning guild for the Reni Leveling Contest! Congratulations to Guild Legend for being the first guild on the new server to reach its level 7 guild castle. See the entire winner story here.

For its victory, the team will get castle furnishings and Item Shop prizes. The guild members also will receive a stack of Guild Transport Runes. The guild Celestial won second place and also will receive castle furnishings and Item Shop prizes.

We at Frogster America would like to thank the guilds and their members that participated in the Reni Leveling Contest. We hope everyone walked away with a lot of loot and experience, and we hope that through this collaboration, your guild has built a strong sense of community. But above all, we hope you had fun.

Last week, Los Angeles was host to the world's most important gaming show, where Frogster presented the upcoming Runes of Magic features and content.

During the show, we announced Runes of Magic's "Chapter 2: The Elven Prophecy" and allowed the press a glimpse at what we're planning for our next updates.

Here's what the press had to say:

Gamebunny

"The game definitely seems a worthy option for those looking for a fantasy MMO without a monthly fee. A big expansion is set to be announced tomorrow, so, I guess you heard it here first!? More RoM news? A new, upcoming instance dungeon called “Heart of the Ocean” takes place entirely underwater. Glub glub!"

Gamebunny posted a few photos from our booth in its  E3 gallery and mentioned us in its E3 Day Two Impressions.

Massively
Massively sent Runes of Magic fan Krystalle Voecks to catch a glimpse of all the new content we had to show. She summarized her findings in an article titled E3 2009: A taste of what's to come in Runes of Magic.

Krystalle added quite a few of her photos of the presentation to the gallery.

Gamespot
Gamespot's Andrew Park managed to make some time in his busy schedule to drop by for a quick view of Runes of Magic. He posted his findings in his article "Runes of Magic Impressions — What There Is to Do, What's New".

Gametrailers
Living life through a lens, the Gametrailers staff checked out our booth on Thursday and got the walkthrough — with live commentary from yours truly. (And I do apologize for m... m... my stage fright; that happens when people stick a camera or microphone in my face. :) )

E3 09: Developer Walkthrough Part I
E3 09: Developer Walkthrough Part II

Of course, we had more visitors last week, so keep an eye on our site to see what the rest of the media had to say.

Time did not stand still while we were away, so we have a few more interviews we did or coverage we found on the Web last week. Hope you'll like it.

Zam.com — Interview with Community Manager Kerensky
A few weeks ago a good friend of mine, Sam "azerian" Maxted asked for an interview. His questions and my answers can be found at Runes of Magic: Two Months On.

TenTonHammer
"When gamers first discovered Frogster’s Runes of Magic, it was too easy to dismiss the title as “another [...] clone.” Once beta began and people got a taste of the many features and design elements present in the world of Taborea, players understood that Frogster was on to something with its free-to-play title. As the game closes in on three months since the official launch and over one million registered users, Ten Ton Hammer takes a look at the top six reasons to play Runes of Magic."

MMORPG.com
And last but not least, we have started a new series of Dev-Blogs on MMORPG.com. Kicking off the series is our very own Director of Product Management Daniel "Danatross" Ullrich. He talks about new content and the change to the patch cycle. Keep checking back for more from our people in the coming weeks.