During the holiday season from now ’til New Year’s Day (January 1, 2011), Gaia Online is offering a holiday event that allows Gaians to help elves find find Santa and cheer up with a variety of games such as an online scavenger hunt and mad lib e-cards across a festive wintry background to keep gamers more »

The newest space available at the Real Estate store is the Villian’s Lair for $5.99 which features two mini-games, Village Griefer and World Domination, a huge aquarium full of exotic fish and a shark, hot molten lava and a laser protected trophy room.

And, of course, a big ol’ list of new stuff for your avatar.

This week for a limited time Home users will gather in Central Plaza and find it overrun with turkeys and a giant bronze turkey in the fountain. along with Thanksgiving Day events is the release of more Assassin’s Creed 2 items for Home.

As usual, there’s also plenty more new stuff to acquire…

For those fans of the Guitar Hero 5 franchise who have been testing the red ropes to the VIP room since this space first opened back in April 2009. The ropes have dropped and those who fill out a registration form are treated to a VIP lounge. Step inside this huge lounge to receive a free virtual t-shirt and then walk or run over to the bass drum area for a virtual guitar for your personal space.

This week at the Home space theater anime fans can enjoy a full second season episode of Full Metal Alchemist now until November 19, 2009.

Also this week, an exclusive never-seen before look at the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII…

Located under the same map as the original Uncharted world is the new Uncharted 2: Nepalese Village. A gorgeous place and, once you are loaded in, you are given a piece of a mask to start your treasure hunt to unlock one of three mini-games in this new area.

Also new: Tekken 6: Mishima Zaibatsu’s Recreation Floor, Street Fighter 4: S.I.N.’s Secret Base and a zombie hunt…

The new SingStar space is finally open with an animated dancing floor, music video jukebox and a special VIP room currently featuring UK rapper Dizzee Rascal with a store kiosk selling virtual Dizzee merchandise in celebration of the release of his newest CD, Tongue n’ Cheek.

A new mini-game has been added in the FarCry 2 Home Space to Rueben’s office called “Reuben’s Report.”

And, for those who are used to going back to your personal space to unwind and redecorate with your newly earned items, you may find your Alcove Set from the Siren: Ward of Despair game replaced with a rather large knight in shining armor standing in their space instead this week.

Twofish, Inc. has launched Twofish Elements, which the company claims is a true “Economic Engine.” Twofish Elements is middleware that will allow game developers to securely manage all aspects of in-game microtransactions. The product is targeted at pay-as-you-play game developers who don’t have the time and the resources to develop their own in-house in-game economy more »