Frogster is certainly getting in the holiday spirit with Runes of Magic. The team is currently hosting a contest that asks players to decorate their Twitter pages with a Runes of Magic holiday theme. The contest ends Dec. 31 and the winners will receive in-game items like costume bundles, wings and a 30-day reindeer mount.

In addition, Frogster announced in a press release that the in-game Snowflake Festival will launch in mid-December. To celebrate, the company is planning to host a "Creative Christmas Contest" that lets players take creative photos for the chance to win flat-screen monitors, graphics cards and a gaming mouse that features a hand-painted Runes of Magic design. More details can be found after the jump.

Lastly, you can count down the days to Christmas with the new Runes of Magic Advent Calendar. A door opens each day to show exclusive artwork, screenshots and pictures from the team.

Berlin, 3 December 2009: Christmas time is also coming to Taborea: A whole host of special events and offers around the season of giving is set to get Runes of Magic fans in a proper Christmas mood.

In mid-December the online role-playing game will launch the 'Snowflake Festival', where the game world will take on a festive look. With the release of daily quests, adventurers will be able to play for gifts. Festive furniture as well as Christmas tree seeds, will invite adventurers to decorate their in-game houses.

But there are also solid prizes to be won in the Advent period: In the ‘The Creative Christmas Contest’ Runes of Magic fans can give their creativity free rein. Anything’s possible as long as it can be photographed. The best submissions will be awarded prizes: The top prize along with hardware such as flat-screen monitors and graphics cards is the ROCCAT Kone Max Customization Gaming Mouse, which is up for grabs with a unique hand-painted Runes of Magic design and valued at 500 Euros. The ROCCAT mouse, highly praised in the specialist press, is especially suited to RPG players, thanks to its macro capability. The official page gives more information: www.runesofmagic.com