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!

 
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.

A big congratulations to lucky Gamesviller Auzzi44, a longtime Gamesviller from Wyano, PA, who scored a BIG WIN over the weekend in CatchUp CoverAll and took home $898 in cold, hard cash! And that's not all, because when Auzzi44 hit the jackpot, four players with the same Lucky Ball choice each won $25 cash! Congratulations to all four of out Lucky Ball winners: Warreniwamoto, Charmaewi, Tuddey2 and Peekabusweetie.

Looking forward to seeing a lot more Gamesvillers names up in lights this week!

As if there weren't enough incentives already to sign up for GV Gold, we've just gone ahead and sweetened the pot! We're now offering monthly GV Gold supscriptiom for only $2.99 per month--that's less than 10 cents per day! And if you're looking for the best deal in gaming, we still offer our annual GV Gold plans at $24.95--an annual savings of 30% over the monthly subscription.

Spoil yourself with GV Gold benefits all month including ad-free gaming, member only rooms and member only sweepstakes, including "a whopping $500 monthly prize and oodles of other bonus cash prizes!

Treat yourself like royalty this month with a GV Gold monthly membership!

Prizes have been piling high in the vaunted Gamesville Mystery Box--and today we'll part the mists a smidge to let you see two of the new items in the box.

In addition to the previously announced prize of the $250 Amazon.com gift card, feast your eyes upon:

Sign up for your chance at hundreds of dollars in cash and prizes,

And we've also received our first member contribution to the Mystery Box, courtesey of Gamesviller blueiiiiiii: a special gift certificate for a 24-pack of Soy Wax Tarts from Dream Tarts Soy Wax Creations.

The Mystery Box winner will be announced June 29. Spoil yourself with riches! Enter today to win the Gamesville Mystery Box Sweepstakes!

What's in the Box?

The Gamesville Mystery Box is like a box of chocolates--you never know what you’ll get. But know you this: It won’t be boring! We're giving all our Gamesvillers a fair chance at mysterious riches beyond your wildest dreams, in our new Mystery Box Sweepstakes!

Check back from time to time here on the GV blog, as we'll be giving you further clues and sneak peaks at what else is inside the Mystery Box. Since we’re feeling fun, we’ll clue you into one of the cool things in the Box: A $250 Amazon.com gift card!

All will be revealed on June 29,2009, when one lucky winner takes home the vaunted, valuable Mystery Box! No purchase necessary--enter to win today!

The NEW GV badges are here!

Today we're happy to announce a minor but exciting update--the new GV Rewards badges are here!

The same great style you've come to love, with a fresh look just in time for spring!

The new badges should be available both in-game and on your GV profile. We'll be rolling out this new feature all day, so if you don't see your new badge yet just follow these two easy steps: 1. Sign out out Gamesville, 2. Sign back into Gamesville and hop into one of your favorite GV games to see your new badge live!

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

At Gamesville, we're always trying to bring you more fun, more games, and more opportunities to win great prizes! Earlier this month, we introduced our first daily GV Rewards sweepstakes where you can win a $25 Target Gift Card every day of the month.

Starting in April, we're shaking things up with a new monthly GV Rewards sweepstakes! That's right: Every month, we're giving away something new and different and exciting. Will it be jewelry? Electronics? Tune in on the first of every month to find out--or follow us on Twitter to get a sneak peak at what's next. Starting April 5, there will also be a new weekly GV Rewards sweepstakes prize: $100 cash prize each week.

The inaugural Monthly sweepstakes is for "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" - Seasons 1 through 7 DVD boxset. An amazing gift for anyone who likes this show! Retail value of $350. (And if you're not a fan of CSI, don't worry: May's Monthly sweepstakes will be completely different.)

Now... some long-time players may be disappointed that we're changing the GV Rewards sweepstakes, and we certainly can understand that. But the upside is, we're giving away more GV Rewards sweepstakes prizes to more people--from roughly 5 GV Rewards sweepstakes winners per month to well over 30 GV Rewards sweepstakes winners per month--with a stronger mix of prizes than ever before!

We hope you enjoy the new prizes--and start saving those GV Rewards because there's some cool, new stuff coming up!

We're tweeting! Are you?

Twitter is a free service for staying connected in real-time, where people update "what they're doing" in a few sentences or less. The GV team has been using twitter in a lot of fun ways to connect with Gamesvillers and the outside web, and today we're announcing a special offer just for GV members who are tweeting as well!

Earn 1,000 GV Rewards by connecting with us on twitter!

Introducing... a fun, easy way to earn 1,000 BONUS GV Rewards!

All you need to do is:

1) Follow @Gamesville on Twitter
2) Send us a message using your Twitter account that says: "@Gamesville [insert your Gamesville member name] I want my free GVs!"

That’s it! Be sure to replace “[insert your Gamesville member name]” with your actual Gamesville member name so we know where to credit your bonus GV Rewards.

Questions About Twitter?

If you aren't using Twitter yet, check out this quick tutorial video we previously posted on how fun (and addictive) the service can be.

And if you're already on Twitter we'd love to connect with you, so follow @Gamesville on Twitter and sends us an @ reply to let us know you're tweeting!