GameDuell’s big Safari Bonus donation

Thursday, July 29 2010, 07:00 am

GameDuell would like to thank everyone who took part in the Safari Bonus! Together all participants raised the handsome sum of 10.127 EUR (that's nearly £8,500)! We’ve already donated this hefty amount to the charity organisation AMANDLA Edufootball e. V. in South Africa.

Have a look at the GameDuell blog for more information on how AMANDLA empowers and enriches the lives of orphaned children with the help of football. No child should be left on the sidelines!

Say hello to the next wave of awards for FreeCell, Pyramid and Spider!

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 - 6am GMT

So you're a natural when it comes to FreeCell, Pyramid and Spider? Well great! Show off your skills and collect stickers for your GameDuell Awards Album! Every medal you earn will unlock you an exclusive, never-before-seen item for your picture kit. Collect them all and show off big-time!

The missions for FreeCell, Pyramid and Spider are already available! Want a sneak-peak at one of the missions? Well here ya go: "Score at least 30,000 points in Pyramid". That doesn't sound too hard, does it?

They think it’s all over, it is now! Credit of the Safari bonus!

Saturday, June 26th 2010, 04:30am

The GameDuell Safari bonus is now over. A big thank you to all participants! With your help we managed to collect an impressive amount which will be donated to AMANDLA EduFootball e. V. this summer. We will inform you all regarding the outcome of this donation here! Congratulations to all the winners! Your bonus will be credited to your player account by mid July.

Football Match: Always a Thrilling Game!

Tuesday, June 22th 2010, 6am (GMT)

This one's sure to make you use your head! Football Match, GameDuell's newest game, puts you right in the middle of the action. Donning an England football shirt, you'll shoot goals for England and help us bring home gold!

Football Match is a match-3 game based on Combina and Jungle Jewels. Simply form lines of 3, 4 or 5 adjacent footballs to score goals in the first and second halves, each lasting 45 seconds.

Don't miss out! Football Match is available for a limited time only! On July 11th, the ref will blow his whistle one last time ... that is, unless we go into overtime!

> Step up for the England now!

Play games, earn awards!

Friday, June 4th 2010, 6am (GMT)

Do you remember when you were a kid and liked to collect those cool sports cards and other types of cards? And with how much pride you showed them to Grandma when they were complete?

Yes, we all like to brag a little, it's ok.

Well, that's why we've taken both concepts and created these really cool and stylish new GameDuell Award Albums to automatically showcase your success.

Here you will find the different missions you will need to complete for each game to earn these awards.

You will earn a cool sticker for your album each time you fulfil a mission. And if you complete just four missions, you'll not only receive a medal, but also four new, even more difficult missions. And that's not all! In recognition of your success, you'll receive an additional item for your picture kit with each medal. Keep an eye out for these new articles of clothing, hats and glasses!

We're kicking the whole thing off with the game Roll 5. Very soon you'll be able to earn awards in more and more different games. Your favourite game is sure to be among them soon, we'll let you know when it is, so stay tuned and start completing your album!

Credit of the Spring bonus!

Friday, May 28th, 2010 - 06:00am BST

The Spring bonus has now been credited. Players who sent the first 1,000 correct answers to each question have received their winnings. The bonus has been credited to the player account in each case. Congratulations to all winners!

If you were not one of the lucky winners, don't be disheartened: there will soon be another bonus event with an interesting twist... we don't want to give it all away but what we can already tell you is - it's going to be WILD!

Create your dream face!

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 - 06:00am BST

Did you always want to know what you will look like in 20 years, or with red hair? If so then try it out with our profile picture kit! Your personal profile picture is just a few clicks away! Whether you wish to create a lifelike picture of yourself or a fantasy figure - you have thousands of combinations! Experiment with the different hairstyles, eye colours and items of clothing, in the picture kit, anything's possible! Go to the picture kit here. Show your fellow players at GameDuell who you are or who you would like to be!
Have fun creating your picture!

The mini leagues are back!

Tuesday, December 15th 2009, 5am (GMT)

You can finally play mini leagues again! We are particularly pleased to be able to inform you about this as we know that a lot of our players have missed playing mini leagues during the technical improvements on our website. For this reason, we have reactivated this feature first.

This is how to play mini leagues:

On the duel selection page, the mini leagues can be found at the bottom of the page. You can find an overview of all available mini leagues at the top left of the page under Special Competitions.

For stability reasons, the "Challenge" feature will remain offline until at least February. We appreciate your understanding and patience!

The crediting of your Halloween bonus

Tuesday, December 1st 2009, 5am (GMT)

The spookiness has come to an end – the Halloween bonus 2009 is now over. We would like to thank all participants!
Your bonus was credited onto your player account on November 6th.

Missing the creepy and dark atmosphere of the Halloween bonus? Play our phantom game, GhostSweeper – terribly tense, not only when the witches are out!

The availability of certain features

Tuesday, 06 October 2009 - 07am

We have news regarding the reactivation of certain features on our website. Our aim is to offer you a site which is always stable and error-free. Unfortunately, some of features have therefore remained offline for longer than expected whilst our maintenance works are being carried out.

In November, we hope to have mini-leagues back online. In the meantime, we are progressing with our maintenance work. You can, of course, continue playing normal duels in all of your favourite games whilst this is being carried out.

Thank you for your understanding!

The joker for your desktop

A joker at home - as a background for your computer! Download this month's wallpaper and after just a few clicks you will have the joker as your desktop background.

Download this month's joker background in your preferred resolution:
1024x768 or 1280x1024.

You can find all of the Joker Desktop Wallpapers from the past few months in our archive.

Colourful underwater antics: Bubble Popp!

Thursday, 1st October 2009 - 08am

The sea is full of mysteries – just like our new game  Bubble Popp! Take a dive and discover an exciting underwater world with colourful fish, impressive coral reefs and precious treasures.

The aim of the game is simple: pop all of the colourful bubbles with well-aimed shots and collect the diamonds on the way. If you manage to open the bolted treasure chest, you will discover a special surprise waiting for you!

Head to the ocean bed!

Open duels accessible again

August 28th, 2009 - 11am

The open duels are now back online!

You can access your open duels here.

If you have been affected by the deactivation of the open duels, we would like to take this opportunity to apologize for the inconvenience.

Thank you for your patience!

The pirates are back!

July 14th, 2009 - 10am

After a short stay on land, a new and improved version of "Pirate Ships" is back on board! The game is now faster and more stable than ever due to bigger sails and brand new ropes.

We have some information for those who haven't been at sea for a while. There are now two versions of the game: the previous version and a brand new version which does not include the smallest ship but has two additional larger ships. The following formula applies:
More ships + less water = twice the fun!

So cast off and ship ahoy! Go directly to the game here.

The new 8-ball Pool game is here!

July 14th, 2009 - 10am

Our new pool game is making the hearts of all pool fans beat faster. In the new digital pool saloon you can compete against real opponents. But 8-ball Pool has more to offer:

Technical developments at GameDuell

June 23rd, 2009 - 10am

Dear GameDuell Friends,

Thanks to your loyalty and support over the past few years, the GameDuell Community has grown into one of the biggest online gaming websites in Europe with several million members. In addition to this, with your help we have introduced new games, tournaments and other innovations.

In order to cope with any growth in the future and to continue improving the GameDuell website, we are currently carrying out a range of technical enhancements on our platform. Unfortunately, over the past few weeks, these developments have led to several problems and outages on our website which have sometimes lasted several hours. We would like to take this opportunity to apologise for the restrictions on our website and any inconvenience caused by this.

Due to these technical developments, it was deemed necessary to deactivate certain features on our website. The reimplementation of these features is planned as follows:

• The open duels are expected to be fully available again at the end of June.
• We hope to have mini leagues, as well as the option to challenge your friends, back online by the end of July.

We appreciate that in order to gain your trust and your happiness, it is very important that we offer you a stable website. For this reason, we have worked hard over the past few weeks on the technical reliability of our website. We promise to do everything we possibly can so that technical updates are executed as smoothly as possible. If it is deemed necessary to interrupt our services for a short amount of time, we will do this during the early hours of the morning where possible and will inform you of this in the Community News.

We want to offer you a great website at all times and are already planning several exciting new games and features which you will be able to enjoy once our technical improvements have been completed.

Thank you for your patience during our development work!

Michael Kalkowski
Product & Community

My new player account - How does it work?

October 26th, 2007 - 1pm

From now on, you will find your player account at the top, right-hand side of the page. All important information is now available at a glance.

For more information, simply click on the corresponding part of your account and you will be lead to the appropriate section. A click on your username, for instance, will lead to your player profile. Have fun using your new player account!

Within the next few weeks, you will also be able to enjoy a lot of additional and exciting features, such as detailed player profiles, a buddylist, messaging tools, Mini-Leagues, Jackpots, ...

These features will make it more fun for you to compete against others and easier to communicate with them. After all, it is you and your fellow players that build the GameDuell community!

We have finally launched the English version of GameDuell. Soon, you will be able to compete against real opponents from many more countries. GameDuell's dream is to bring people from all over the world together so they can play games and have fun with each other.

In addition, we will soon be adding new games. Within the next few weeks, you will be able to play even more games like GhostSweeper, Spider Solitaire, DartKing, Magnoid, ...

List of all available games

Changes galore!

Here you can take a look "behind the scenes" and check out our newest games, preview improved features and get an idea of things to come in the near future. And just so you know, a lot of the new features were created with your suggestions in mind! If you have additional suggestions, simply navigate to the  contact form,  and select "suggestions & new ideas". We would be thrilled to receive your feedback.