Remember? A few weeks ago I was giving away Zowie’s EC1 mouse here on the blog. And we got a winner. He goes by the name Eduard Besjentsev.

Now I really needed to underline the name. Let me tell you why…

When I asked for his address to ship the prize, Eduard turned me down. Down! He more or less said “I don’t have a computer anymore and even when I get a new one, I won’t have the time to play with this awesome-looking mouse”. WTF. Who da hell?!!… Seriously, who the hell does that in 2010? Who the hell doesn’t take the winning mouse, just to sell it on eBay if it’s not to play with it? And he added “put it back up for grabs and someone else can make good use of it”.

Now Eduard, I don’t know you but I wouldn’t be surprised if your in game handle was “Jesus” or something. I just love meeting people like that: the more I go out and the more I realize they are very few.

That all results in the main piece of news today on this blog: Zowie’s EC1 mouse is at stake again!

** New Mission Briefing **

Even if it’s a mouse that – obviously – enjoys a good clicking, Zowie’s EC1 has a great deal of respect for type-writers, keyboards and the people that know how to put them to good use. Call it peripherals solidarity.

That is why, If five reviews or more get published to Gamocracy before this Saturday, at the time when I publish the “7 Days and X Reviews” entry here on the blog, Zowie’s EC1 will randomly select a new partner for life among those that wrote them.

After what it will travel all the way to their home to become their clicking instrument of choice.

Everybody says thank you Eduard!

In the MMO gold rush, the nuggets are few next to the huge glowing rock that is World of Warcraft. Even more so when diggers venture into the region of fantasy MMO’s. Guild Wars is one of the few that held its own next to the Californian giant and Guild Wars 2 will aim even higher, where many a game have burned their wings.

This interview travelled some before it reached the shores of the Gamocracy blog. The idea for it was born last August at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany. Questions from Gamocracy players then flew in to France from three quarters of the four corners of the world, namely: Denmark, Finland, Singapore and the UK. After that they made a short stop in the UK before they visited Washington State in the US for a while. In the end, they got back to France where they finally found their answers, provided as they were by a French man, Stéphane Lo Presti (in charge of community management for ArenaNet here), in English.

Only the most complicated roads lead to Gamocracy.

> Read the Interview

What made our gaming headlines this week? For the past seven days, Gamocracy players have picked the most compelling stories, videos and other gaming related links they came across out there and voted them up. Or not.

Resulting is our collective top 5 Glinks of the week: (what’s a Glink? A Gamocracy Link, if you wish.)

1. Two hundred video game characters made into Mega Man sprites
Joystiq | shared by TheHullu
And apparently he did those between calls at the call center he’s working at. Who the hell…?!

2. Call of Duty: Black Ops one-day sales hit $360M – News at GameSpot
Gamespot | shared by starhammer
Did you hear the new up and coming pop hit? “I made a billion dollars, a billion dollars is what I made, hey hey / Don’t care if you wrote a good story, there’s now way you’ll share it with me, hey hey.” Should be out soon…

3. Black Ops On PC Suffering From Mysterious “Lag” [UPDATE]
Kotaku | shared by R4VI4TOR
Can’t it just be that a couple people in millions have hardware/compatibility issues on their computer? “I’m a PC, remember?”

4. Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan (main trailer)
Youtube | shared by Incolas
I glinked that, as you can see. I need this game. I need it when I travel to Dreamhack.

5. Black Ops – Pc vs Xbox 360 Comparison [1080p]
Youtube | shared by R4VI4TOR
I’d say the PC looks slightly better… What’s more, it has a mouse.

> Gamocracy’s Magazine page will get you the same kind of stuff *in real time*.

Thank you everyone that took part, we appreciate that you’re playing the game!

Well, right now it’s an embryo of a game but we’ve been thinking and designing what the next steps towards making it a full-fledged little game of publishing and curating could be. We might have found something we like.

At the moment, I can tell you that we will rename “pwnz!” into “energy”. “Pwnz!” has a meaning that initially escaped my French awareness, one which I very recently understood, that makes it exactly not the right word for what we’re trying to do. On the other hand, “energy” is… well it’s energy for god’s sake!

> More on pwnz! (soon to be “energy”)

This week, thanks to two outstandingly amazing people, and me, so on average that’s three ok people, the world knows once more that Minecraft is a 10 and StarCraft 2 a 9. And maybe it’ll discover Singularity, and its shortcomings, a bit more through Nayya’s words.

I’ve been playing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare this week. Yes, the old one. I think I’ll write about it in the coming days. Talk about a timely review…

In case you don’t know much about Gamocracy: to publish a review on the site, players first need to reach level 6. Only very few people got there so far! Click if you think that reads weird

Tonight, we’re playing StarCraft 2 all night from home with a bunch of friends… They’re here, waiting, and my main computer is down.

Gotta go fix that. o_O

I added a bunch of games to Gamocracy’s database today and linked them to our partner store, DLGamer. Gamocracy has more games than ever available for sale!

We have many recently released games, we’re now getting most PC games on day 1, which wasn’t a given only six months ago. We’re still PC only when it comes to reselling but we will soon add console games via Amazon.

Newly available games, ordered by release dates:

Call of Duty: Black Ops
November 9th 2010
54,99 €

Football Manager 2011
November 5th 2010
49.99 €

Emergency 2012
October 29th 2010
39,99 €

Blood Bowl Legendary Edition
October 28th 2010
39,99 €

Fallout New Vegas
October 19th 2010
44,99 €

Cities XL 2011
October 14th 2010
39,99 €

>> Check the full list of new games