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Celebrating the fourth anniversary of the launch of Urbaniacs – a comic book world come to virtual life – Brandissimo! announces the third annual Cinco de Mayhem celebration at Urbaniacs.com. Cinco de Mayhem begins May 5, 2009 when site-wide super-villain GoatFist takes over all of Urbaniacs.com in what has become the staff's annual practical joke on the citizens of Urbanville. In the past, the users have logged in to find all forum posts replaced with "GoatFist Rules!," their in-site community bank has been robbed, and their user pages have been replaced with a graffiti of "You've Been Goated!" “It’s our yearly punking of the fans of Urbaniacs,” said Josh Fisher, founder of the award-winning virtual world, who is also known as Mayor Da!Man. “We use this event as a fun way to launch our biggest new feature of the year.” This year, Cinco de Mayhem launches the all-new Urbowars, an ongoing, month-long contest that unites all of the elements of Urbaniacs. From playing games to training characters and multiplayer battles to villainous assaults, Urbowars tracks everything an Urbaniacs player experiences and turns it into a fun contest where one team wins every month. At the end of each month, an entire class of Urbaniacs characters (Hero, Villain, Vigilante, Beatnik or Nomad) will be declared the Urbowars winner and every user who is part of the class will be awarded in-game prizes. “Urbowars is a fun way to add a sense of competition to the social elements of the site and reward our players at the same time. It’s also a way for individual users to engage each other, play in character, and get into the spirit of our game world. There’s friendly competition between users, a little trash talking and plenty of crowing by the winning disposition,” said Fisher. “Just keep an eye out for GoatFist or you might be his next Cinco de Mayhem victim!” |
