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Two of RuneScape’s premier fansites have both released exclusive RuneFest interviews with members of the team this week.

First up is an interview with RuneScape Community Events coordinator and RuneFest Games Room guru Mod Crow. Platinum site RuneHQ talk to Crow about fansites at RuneFest, doing battle with J-Mods and A Matt’s live 99 bonanza.

Somehow, RuneHQ also got their hands on the first-ever pictures of this year’s games area, which is truly going to be a thing of beauty!
Check out RuneHQ's exclusive game area interview and reveal here.

Mod Nexus can generally be seen running around the office with his hair on fire. That makes sitting him down a challenge that requires the clever use of traps filled with cake. After deploying said trap, Sal’s Realm were able to keep him still long enough to reminisce about last year’s event and look ahead to this year. Nexus talks about costumes, architecture, queuing and why RuneFest 2011 is going to make last year’s look like a garden fete.

Check out the Sal’s Realm interview here.


Mod Paul M

Throughout this week we'll be revealing the nominees for each of the seven categories featured in this year's Golden Gnome Video Awards. Seven categories? Yes, it turns out there's just too much talent out there to cram it all into six categories so we've sent SteveW back in to the mine to recover enough dwarven gold to forge one more Golden Gnome. Check out www.runescape.com and www.runefest.com on Wednesday for more details.

Today we're announcing two categories. So, without further ado, let's kick off with the GGVA for Best Use of Sound.

The sound in a video isn't always the first thing that a producer thinks about, but in these videos the sound really brings the films alive and is an integral part of what's on offer. The nominees up for Best Use of Sound use very different techniques, but both really bring their videos alive with some excellent audio stylings.

And the nominees for Best Use of Sound are:

"Stoke" and "Dale of Hope"

Check out the finalist video to see the nominees in action:





Next up is the GGVA for the Best Use of Effects.

Adding an effect to a film isn't too hard in itself, but using the right effect at the right time in a way that genuinely adds something to the final production is a skill to be mastered. If this year's entries are anything to go by, then it looks like this is a skill that RuneScape's video makers have licked.

And the nominees for Best Use of Effects are:

"Nozferatu" and "SundownRaven"

For the nominee's entries, have a look at their finalists’ video:





Congratulations to all finalists! Tomorrow, we reveal six more as we announce our favourite videos in the Funniest Video, the Best Voice Acting and Best Story Telling categories.

RuneFest Team