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Special Christmas Features In Games?
An anonymous reader writes "Some online and offline videogames make special changes for the holiday season. There's the Planetside Christmas decorations, where Sony has embedded the holidays into their futuristic online war, and also a Christmas mutator for Unreal Tournament 2003. What other holiday changes are people seeing in their gaming today?" Phantasy Star Online has also instituted some neat changes for Xmas.
The YDKJ series includes special features for all sorts of holidays and anniversaries. It also checks the system clock, and will greet you with things like "weeeeelcome to the insomniac edition of you don't know jack!"
Not exactly in game, but amusing none-the-less. Blizzard has a couple of MP3s with a Christmas theme. The 12 Days O Xmas features StarCraft units in a parody of the classic song. Nasty Diablo is a parody of Frosty the Snowman. Both are hilarious!
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." -Stephen Hawking
Set 12/25 and you will get a Christmas theme in Rise of the Triad game. There are other Easter eggs for other holidays too!
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
The really old game The Incredible Machine (and the other expansion packs/versions) would give you holday themed objects.
AFAIK, they had a christmas tree, a halloween jack-o-lantern, and a thanksgiving turkey.
That was a great game.
On the Danger Hiptop (T-Mobile Sidekick), there is an easter egg game called "snowbored". Inside this game is a meta easter egg - the trees turn into Christmas trees in the month of December.
Like you said, in Black and White the advisors say Christmasy things on Christmas.
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