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Used for the newsfeed on the main page and the MyHome page.

To add a news item, click the edit link for the News section and add your item to the top. Copy the code below first and paste it at the top after the </noinclude> tag.

News entries should use the following format:

<b>Title</b> - [ac.turbine.com/example Link]
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News

Turbine Pumpkin Carving Contest 2010 - Link
Turbine is looking for the best Asheron’s Call, Dungeons & Dragons Online, and The Lord of the Rings Online themed carved pumpkins. Your carving can be of your favorite creepy creature from our games, spooky scenes from around the game worlds, emblems and icons, or anything else from (or about) the games. Turbine will accept digital photographs of entries from October 4th through October 30th, 2010.

--Tlosk  talk  contr 02:23, October 6, 2010 (UTC)

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Bonus Quest XP Weekend - Link
Turbine has announced a bonus quest experience weekend starting sometime before 6pm Eastern on Friday October 1st and ending after midnight on Sunday October 3rd (sometime Monday morning). All quest XP rewards during that time will be increased by 50% for a total of 150% experience.

--Tlosk  talk  contr 23:08, September 27, 2010 (UTC)

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Patch Date Announced - Link
The September event Plans Within Plans will go live on Tuesday morning September 21st. The Developer Notes are also available including confirmation that Undead will be this month's new character race.

--Tlosk  talk  contr 13:44, September 19, 2010 (UTC)

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Wikia will replace Monaco with a new default skin this fall. - Link
Wikia has decided to move to a new custom skin this fall that will replace Monaco as the default skin for most Wikia wikis. Monaco will be supported for a time but will eventually be phased out completely. Monobook (which many ACCW readers use) will continue to be supported however there is no promise that it too will not be removed at some point. While the new skin is still being actively developed, you can get a first look here. If you would like to help beta test the skin and influence the final result you can apply here. If you have thoughts or concerns for our particular wiki please let us know on our forum.

--Tlosk  talk  contr 09:34, August 30, 2010 (UTC)

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Scheduled Maintenance: Monday, August 30 from 6:00am to 2:00pm Eastern - Link
The Asheron's Call Game Servers and the Accounts Server will be offline for maintenance on Monday, August 30 from 6:00am to 2:00pm Eastern. The forums will remain up, but players may not be able to log in to the forums.

--Tlosk  talk  contr 09:34, August 30, 2010 (UTC)

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Missing AC Subscriptions and the Account Management Website - Link
Turbine is aware that there are some unexpected changes happening to accounts, game logins and forums access. They implemented some updates to the billing systems this week and are working to resolve all of the resultant problems for everyone.

Turbine assures that the website issues are simply a display problem, which has no bearing on your actual account status. Also, your characters are all still there. For more details read here and here.

--Tlosk  talk  contr 21:31, August 18, 2010 (UTC)

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Design Diary: New Races - Link
Severlin has posted a thread giving tentative information about the upcoming new player races. Read more about the Empyrean, Undead, Tumerok, and Lugian details here. Because it is early in the design process the specifics can change.

--Tlosk  talk  contr 09:44, August 2, 2010 (UTC)

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Playable Olthoi - Link
Players may be able to create Olthoi as a playable PvP style creature for the big November anniversary update, the developers have asked for player feedback here.

--Tlosk  talk  contr 00:16, July 10, 2010 (UTC)

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July Patch Date Set - Link
The July event, Filling in the Blanks is scheduled to go live on Tuesday July 13th. On that day all worlds will be down from 7am - 11am Eastern.

--Tlosk  talk  contr 00:16, July 10, 2010 (UTC)

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Bonus Quest XP Weekend - Link
With another new race and many players returning to the game, Turbine has announced a bonus quest experience weekend starting sometime before 6 pm on Friday June 25 and ending after midnight on Sunday June 27. All quest XP rewards during that time will be increased by 50% for a total of 150% experience.

--Tlosk  talk  contr 18:53, June 23, 2010 (UTC)

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Developer Appreciation Day Event - June 14 - Link
On Monday, June 14, 2010, the last day of the Celebration, the Knights of Fortune Allegiance, located on the Morningthaw Server, will host an Asheron’s Call Developer Appreciation Day event.

All players, from all servers, are cordially invited to attend, or, host their own events simultaneously on their own servers. And, of course, the game’s awesome design team and staff are invited as well.

In support of Afsan ibn Kusain the Barkeep and others who have seen their lively hood fall to ruins following the town’s destruction by the Shadows and Bael'Zharon, the event will be held in Tufa, at the base of the waterfall, at 9:00pm EST (Portal to Tufa will be provided in the Marketplace during the entire event).

--Tlosk  talk  contr 13:17, June 12, 2010 (UTC)

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June Patch Date Set - Link
The June Event Shifting Gears, is scheduled to go live on Tuesday, June 15th. On that day, all worlds will be down from 7am - 11am Eastern. See Turbine's June Event Page for more details.

--Tlosk  talk  contr 11:15, June 11, 2010 (UTC)

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Shifting Gears - Link
In a surprise to everyone it appears June's new player race will be Gear Knights. See the full teaser here.

--Tlosk  talk  contr 16:23, June 8, 2010 (UTC)

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Game Network Code Update - Link
The game is being updated 5/25/2010 in an attempt to fix problems people have had connecting with certain routers. Turbine is asking for help afterwards in evaluating the results.

--Virindi 00:12, May 25, 2010 (UTC)

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The 2nd Round of Landscape Texture Teasers Has Been Posted - Link
Frelorn made another post with Links to four more screen shots of new landscape textures. These textures will not be in the May patch, but are planned to be implemented soon.

Ayun Teaser Screen Shot - Ayan

Island Teaser Screen Shot - Island

Timaru Teaser Screen Shot - Timaru

Water Teaser Screen Shot - Water

Cheers --Sucamarto 04:04, May 22, 2010 (UTC)

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Wedding Invitation - Link
The Invitations to the Wedding of the Year have been sent out! Check it out!

Saturday May 15th

• Wintersebb: 10am
• Leafcull: 5pm
• Frostfell: 11pm

Sunday May 16th

• Verdantine: 2am
• Thistledown: 8am
• Harvestgain: 6pm
• Morningthaw:10pm

Monday May 17th

• Solclaim: 9pm
• Darktide: 9pm

--Tlosk  talk  contr 01:17, May 14, 2010 (UTC)