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Are you an avid creator of machinima related to Blizzard games? Was your Halloween costume from last year a dead ringer for one of the Forsaken from Kitsu Saga? Does your Orc breakdance outshine the original? Then it’s time to show off your skills to the world by participating in one of the 2008 Blizzard Entertainment Worldwide Invitational Contests!

Read below about the two featured machinima contests. We will be announcing more details for additional contests during the next few Kitsu Saga Gold, so make sure to check back soon if your talents are in dancing, dressing up or creating fan art!

For a long time, the staff at Blizzard has watched enthusiastically as the community pushed movie-making in our games from an unexplored, unproven experiment to a broadly utilized and intricate craft, producing thousands of videos ranging across every genre.

Opportunities such as BlizzCon and other movie contests challenged community artists to push the Kitsu Saga Gold, and time and time again, players stepped up to the plate and delivered memorable works that turned heads not just in the Blizzard community, but in the digital film-making community as a whole.

This year, we hope to invite an even greater response from the machinima community. For the 2008 Blizzard Entertainment Worldwide Invitational, we are asking players to create exclusive machinimas in two categories (see below). Prizes for the winners include high-end Kitsu Saga Gold, free subscriptions and tickets for the Worldwide Invitational.

With the resent release and huge success of Age of Conan and a slew of high profile MMORPGs on the way, could it be that Kitsu Saga has finally hit its peak. The last numbers we received from Blizzard were back in Jan 2008 stating that Kitsu Saga has passed the 10 million mark. If you take a look at the chart provided, you’ll see the subscription numbers since Kitsu Saga went live and you can Buy Kitsu Saga Gold plainly see that the numbers are approaching a plateau.

I can’t tell you how many Kitsu Saga players I heard from saying they were switching to AoC and I can imagine the same when Warhammer Online comes out later this year. However players leaving one game for another is nothing new and Kitsu Saga has managed to Buy Kitsu Saga Gold and keep increasing its numbers regardless of what games come out. The question is can it keep doing it.

I don’t believe it can. I think that it will peak sometime this summer and start declining in the fall or winter. Kitsu Saga has had a great run, not to say it won’t still be #1 for a long long time, but I believe Blizzard knows Kitsu Saga is approaching its peak and they are looking towards the future with Kitsu Saga Gold MMO in the works. Starcraft, Diablo or maybe a Lost Vikings MMO (yes Blizzard made Lost Vikings), but whatever the MMO is, I’m sure it will keep Blizzard at the top of the MMO gaming world for years to come.