I have been playing the MMORPG called Vanguard: Saga of Heroes since beta. But a few months ago I canceled my subscription and stopped playing. On Dec. 18th, 2007 SOE decided to reactivate everyone’s account for a free month if you were inactive since Oct 1, 2007. I am glad I came back to the game, SOE has made great changes (Mostly Fixes) to the game. There are a lot more people playing now and they are have a Christmas event in the game so it is all decorated and you get free presents. The city of Khal has also go a makeover and the performance is much better now. The performance in general for the entire game is much better, they have fixed a ton of memory leaks and bugs. At launch the game would use 95% of my 2 Gigs of ram but now usually uses around 70% and run a lot smoother. I crash a lot less often and I am able to run with the graphics turned up on max and still get a decent framerate on my single Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX. The game still looks great and now performs great. My Guild is more active again and SOE is giving everyone a 50% XP bonus and free flying Reindeer for the Holidays. I have been able to go from level 23 to level 29 in about a week. Things are looking much better for Vanguard. If you have not checked it out recently then you should give it a try or retry if you left.

A friend of mine told me about two great sites recently that allow you to get free software and games. And it is totally legal and ad-ware / spy-ware free. This is great for me because I always like to have new things to do and have new things to play with. The first site is called Giveaway of the Day and the other site which I like even more is Game Giveaway of the Day. They change the software or game that you can download each day. They provide you with legal registration information or activation program. The catch is that you have to download and install it that day in order for it to work. They show the previous software and games so if you missed the program or game you want then you will have to pay to get it or wait and hope that it comes around again. Check them out and I hope you like them as much as I do.