DDO is 4 years old as of February 28th! There’s lots of birthday news, activities, and features this week, so let’s get this party started! Happy Birthday DDO!

- The Turbine Community Team

DDO may be a year older, but new players are amassing each day! Some time ago Psyk0sisS began a series of Public Service Announcements to help out new players with useful information. We want to put these tips back in the public eye so you can learn from them or add your own!

If you’ve spent time with DDO over the past 4 years, you’re likely no stranger to the resident fan podcast DDOcast. This week’s Featured Player Spotlight shines on Mockduck, the creator and host of DDOcast!

DDO’s 4th birthday is this Sunday and the celebration has only just begun! One of our devoted Turbine slav… I mean… employees, Sean, has created a stunning work of art to show off his DDO pride! Come check it out and share your celebration plans, and you could be featured in the next DDO newsletter! Click here!

No birthday party is complete without lots of other players, so why not join a guild! This week’s feature guild is the Delightful Gentlemen! A F2P/Premium guild on the Khyber server, they are currently looking for active mature F2P/Premium players of all play styles. Check out their guild forum, facebook page, or XFire recruitment thread for more information!

Celebrate the old with something new! This week our staff are chatting about two new features arriving in the DDO Store:

DDO Producer Glin is thrilled he can finally repair his gear on the fly with the Portable Repair Shop, appearing in the DDO Store today! You can check out the Store release notes and the DDO Store promotions page to learn more!

Tolero talks about her Greater Reincarnation plans and gives a hint about when you’ll see this feature in-game!

All this celebrating is giving Developer Keeper spring fever! Learn about how the developers landscape in DDO!

The first of two +20% bonus XP weekends kicks off today in honor of DDO’s Birthday!

The birthday bash continues with more forum avatars, now available for the community!

There’s no greater gift for us than great player contest entries! Congratulations to Grimmsie, Borut, Roger, Rachel and Cody, and Kirra and the Storm Lords, the winners of our Valentine’s Day Screenshot Contest!

DDO’s birthday weekend is also the final weekend of the Risia Ice Games (for now)! Take advantage of the last of the wintry weather to win some prizes!

DDO’s 4th Birthday isn’t the only thing to celebrate! The news is spreading fast since Turbine announced that DDO has surpassed 1 Million New Players! Check out the news coverage!

• Warcry
• Massively
• Beckett Massive Online Gamer
• Gamasutra
• Kotaku
• Gamervision
• ZAM
• Game Daily
• MMORPG
• IGN

DDO is up for another award with Beckett Massive Online Gamer! Click here to vote for DDO as best expansion/addition of 2009. (Write-in’s for other categories are also welcome!) Voting ends on Sunday, so vote now!

That’s all for this week’s edition of the Eberron Chronicle. We hope everyone has fun during the 4th Birthday Extravaganza! We’ll see you next time!