Big ups to Doogie Howser, some may know his has Neil Patrick Harris or NPH. Whatever the name you refer to him as, he sure is a renaissance man. Actor, host, tv doctor, scientist, top Japanese Alteil ranking competitor; he can do it all.You heard right Mr. Howser plays ALTEIL! How awesome is that!? His handle is dr_iczer71. A celebrity... playing Alteil! 

Nah, no. We're just kidding. Nobody famous plays Alteil... that we know of! Keep your eyes peeled folks. We may have a Vincent D'Onofrio or Bruce Campbell or Jodie Foster in our midst.

As always, anyone who performed heart surgery at the age of fourteen and fought in the arena at least once this week will receive 10 gran. Listed below are your top 5 ranked Iczers, top 3 guilds, and guilds that have leveled.

Also, big congrats to our first level 5 guild, Royal Flush.

TOP 5 WEEKLY RANKED ICZERS

1. Hinata
2. Sethiel
3. bob000
4. Romdeau
5. shawnreed343

TOP 3 GUILDS

1. Royal Flush 
2. Order of the Black Knights
3. Made in Japan
   

GUILDS THAT HAVE LEVELED UP

1. Royal Flush 4 -> 5

GUILDS THAT HAVE BECOME OFFICIAL

1. Band of the Red Hand
2. Darkest Star
3. Valkyrie Profile
4. its a guild!
5. Xenogears
6. Shikaku
   

An additional 21 alternate color avatars have been added to the Shop.  They are level dependent, the first one is revealed at level 10, and then another ever 2 levels after until 50.  For now that's all you need, but next monday I'll institute a level cap, so that the avatars are only available for 6 levels.

Go check out the Avatar shop!  Just click on Avatar, then Background, and you'll see your free Pirate background!  Also, the eyepatches, Male and Female Pirate outfits, pirate hat and pirate headrag are half gran price!

Starting Monday, September 21st, there will be Level Up Avatars appearing in the shop.  These Avatars are alternate colored versions of existing Avatars, for Iczers who are serious about having a unique look.  The first one will appear at level 10, and then another will appear every two levels after that.  The Avatars will cost the same as the normal ones (FM Included), and will be available for 6 levels each.  This means at any one time you'll have access to 3 Level Up Avatars.

Of course, if you're already level 40 or so, you don't want to miss out on all those Avatars you would have gotten a shot at when you were levels 10-39, so for the first week there will be no expiration condition, and all the Avatars you're high enough to have will appear. After the first week, all but the most recent three will vanish.

Our next Community Tournament is on the horizon!  It will be held on Tuesday Sept 29, 2:30 EST 8 hours after maintenance, and managed by harvest4god.

 This is a ONE * (RARITY) THEME TOURNAMENT

Here's what harvest4god has to say about it:

I will not accept entries, until the day of the tourney starting about an hour before.  I will create the bracket on site before the tourney from anyone who shows up. this should prevent a bunch of delays. I will be making it double elim. So if a person never loses and makes it to the final. they have to be beat twice to be knocked out. Condition of tourney: you can only use 1* rarity cards. If you are found using anything higher than that, its instant DQ. I will just view random matches to verify. I will need some volunteers to record the final matches. So everyone get cracking on their deck ideas. and get ready for some fun.

And here's what I have to say about it: In an effort to increase the amount of Point Cards out there, Point Card prizes have doubled from previous community tournaments.  Also, there are now PARTICIPATION prizes.

First prize is  50 Gran and 10 Point Cards

Second prize is 10 Point Cards

Runners Up get 2 Point Cards

All participants (even if you lose every match) get 2 more Point Cards!

This Tournament is linked to Arakis' Quest, so if you play your cards right you can land an additional 20 point cards for your effort!

The forum post for this tournament is here, and you can send any questions to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Talk Like a Pirate Day is the 19th!

It's one of our favorite holidays, so we're offering a FREE pirate ship background to everyone on the 19th!  Just go to the shop and pick up your free background this SATURDAY.

Also, we're going to throw a few more pirate items in the avatar shop on Saturday, and for the whole day all Pirate oriented avatars and gear are HALF GRAN PRICE.

On top of that, I'm giving 20 Point cards to whoever sends me the best Card File featuring Pirate King / Dub Rido that I haven't seen before, due Monday. Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or PM me on the forums.

If any of you Iczers populate other forums beside Alteil's, we have a special signature to help promote your favorite addiction, errr... game. Hit the link to the web banner page and copy the code into your signature. A couple different varieties may pop up in the near future so check back in a bit.

I've finally had a minute to sit down and give you a report on our time at PAX.  Since the blogs are still down, check out my forum post all about it.

Well not RIGHT here but at the bottom of the news posts on the right hand side. Now you can view all the great Alteil news in your favorite reader. Except for Chrome, because it has no reader support yet. A suitable workaround should be forthcoming. Enjoy.

We had a large crop of submissions for our Card Flip contest and well it was tough narrowing down the winner. Lots of fairy tale jokes, princes and spells, transformation recipes, etc. Not alot of Indiana Jones references sadly though, I guess the fedora wearing adventurer just couldn't be used as a successful punchline. Anyways without further ado, your winner and his submission: ajkeil.

Four point cards to you good sir. Congrats and well done. Congrats to all the participants. The Card Flip contest is always open and anyone who wants to submit their own work without the limitations of the Caption Contest are welcome to do so. Four point cards will still be awarded within a two week period if we get enough submissions. Peep the in-depth rules for that at this link here.

You can see all the past Card Flips by clicking on that blue link in the middle of this sentence.