The Free Realms servers will go offline on Thursday, December 13, 2012 at 8:00 a.m. PST (San Diego Time) for a game update. Anticipated downtime is around one hour.

With this afternoon's patch Snow Days returns to Free Realms!  Head on over to Snowhill and check out all the festivities!  If you need a hint check out our Snow Days Guide, which you can help update!

Free Realms is celebrating 25 years of Where's Waldo with Waldo clothing, wallpaper, and an attempt at the largest group Waldo picture!  Join Ambassador Amnerys and other folks from SOE at the Sanctuary warpstone on Server 1 on Friday, November 30th at 4pm PST (5pm Mountain, 6pm Central, 7pm Eastern).

Wear your Waldo gear and bring your friends!

Ambassador Amnerys posted on the official forums:

We will bring the Free Realms PC servers offline on Monday, November 19, 2012 at 9:00 p.m. PST (San Diego Time) for a Hotfix. The game servers will be unavailable for about 1 hour.

Here's our handy Time Zone Conversion Tool to help you plan.

Ambassador Amnerys posted on the official forums:

We will bring the Free Realms servers offline on Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 8:00 a.m. PST (San Diego Time) for a Game Update. Anticipated downtime is around 1 hour.

Content from this update will not unlock until next week. We are publishing it early (but content will be locked) to prevent doing an update during the holiday week.

Here's our handy Time Zone Conversion Tool to help you plan!

The Free Realms servers will be offline on Friday, October 26, 2012 at 8:00 a.m. PDT (San Diego Time) for a Game Update. Anticipated downtime is around 1 hours.

Denizens of Sacred Grove are entertained by Halloween Harry this month as Super Spooktacular returns once again. He seeks the help of candy-loving adventurers to help play some tricks, flush out some ghosts and assist others with many more fun tasks!

This year a new TCG bundle is available in the Marketplace, which includes two Baron Von Darkcheat and Heroes booster packs, as well as a Pumpkin Prince promo card. Keep an eye out for additional updates that may add more spookiness to the Marketplace.

Hop onto Free Realms today and enjoy the limited time Super Spooktacular event!

Nearly three hundred screenshots were submitted to our Sunstone Valley Sweepstakes, and it was really tough to choose between them!  The grand prize winner of 1000SC and a Biker Helmet and Shades code is ColetonV with this  awesome shot captioned "Its about to get real >.>"

See our Sweepstakes page for the complete list of winners, and click ColetonV's picture above to see the entire gallery of submissions!

Ambassador Amnerys posted on the official forums:

We will bring the Free Realms PC servers offline on Friday, September 21, 2012 at 8:00 a.m. PDT (San Diego Time) for a Hotfix to smash a few more pesky bugs that attached themselves to Sunstone Valley. The game servers will be unavailable for about 1 hour.

Here's our handy Time Zone Conversion Tool to help you plan!

To celebrate the arrival of Sunstone Valley, ZAM has acquired 25 Biker Helmet and Shades codes to give away AND some Station Cash!

Just log into Free Realms ZAM and upload your favorite Sunstone Valley screenshots to the media tab of this page. We'll make a gallery of all the submissions here. Use this thread to cheer for your favorites!

You can enter all you want but you can only win once. Fifteen codes will be given away to the submitters of our favorite screenshots. Ten codes will be given away to random people who were not screenshot winners. Our very favorite screenshot will also receive a code for 1000 ($10 USD) Station Cash!

See the complete rules here: Free Realms Sunstone Valley Sweepstakes.