"Melquire's Winsome Coast" background, now available!

The holiday season is here, and we're celebrating with two brand new player-created backgrounds fit for the festive season!

Melquire's Winsome Coast is a snowy solo background set against a line of festive firs. Dexla's Warm Fire is a solo background featuring a cozy sitting room sheltered from a particularly chilly island winter. These two great backgrounds will be available until two Portrait Days from now, Tuesday, January 3rd at 3 PM PST, so don't miss out!

Happy Portrait Day, everyone!

Avast ye merry gentle-rogues! Can ye smell the new Limited Edition ship being baked up for this month? It’s sleek, small, and a holiday treat for all! It's a Gingerbread Class Sloop! So we've dropped down the chimney on our festive ol' chum the good captain Candybeard, who has once again graciously allowed us to take a tour. So welcome aboard his fresh-from-the-oven snackship "the Spiced Clownfish".

Here's the jolly olde cap'n standing on his tasty-looking deck, all iced to perfection with pirate-sized candy-canes and giant gumdrops galore. I asked the good captain the secret of the waterproof gingerbread decking, but I couldn't hear what he said through the muffler he had 'round his face! Moving right along...

Here we see the dread pirate Candybeard in his private cabin. Oooh! Look at all those goody-stuffed stockings by the fire! And no wonder the Roger is Jolly when there's cookie walls all decked with holly! And toys too for when there's no pillagin' to do. Apparently, Candybeard is not only a fearsome cutthroat, but he's also good at entertaining himself! That is a rather handsome model ship there, perhaps he wouldn't mind if I just borrowed it for a little while...

Yoho! A bakery in the hold! A grand tradition in the Gingerbread Class continues, filling the whole ship with a heavenly aroma - surely unusual for a pirate vessel! The only danger here me hearties, is chewing a hole through yer own hull!

The Gingerbread Class Sloop is only available until 3:00 PM PDT on the 1st of January 2012, so grab some grog-nog ye olde sea-dog, and jog on over to yer local Shipyard now!

Happy Holidays!

"Corwyn's Dawn Raid" background, now available!

This week on Portrait Day, we say hello to a brand new snowy battle background!

Corwyn's Dawn Raid is an expansive background featuring an all-out Viking assault against a wintry fort. This is a great background for memorializing a particularly exciting Viking Raid expedition! And the best part? Dawn Raid will be available permanently!

Be sure to check back in two weeks for some new and awesome limited edition backgrounds!

Happy Portrait Day, everyone!

From now until 3 PM PST on Monday, November 21st, every purchase of $9.95 or more will earn you a free Harvest Mystery Box! Featuring the seasonal color Wine, the Harvest Mystery Box has a wide array of awesome prizes inside: Wine-colored monkeys, Wine-painted War Brigs and Sloops, a Wine Cat, Wine furniture, clothing and more!

New prizes this year include the never-before-seen Wine Monkey, as well as sealed deeds for Wine-Colored War Brigs! Make your Harvest Celebration a bit more mysterious this year by getting your Mystery Box right now! For a full list of available prizes and other more detailed info, the official rules can be found on this page of our website.

Good luck, everyone!

"Verziga's Fruity Forage" background, now available!

Welcome to the first Portrait Day of November! This week, we say goodbye to all our Halloween and autumn backgrounds, and say hello to one set on a sunny atoll!

Verziga's Fruity Forage is a solo background that places you on a warm island filled with lush pomegranate trees! It's the harvest season, after all, so what better time than now to pick some fresh, delicious fruit? Fruity Forage will only be available until next Portrait Day, Tuesday, November 22nd at 3 PM PST, so head to your nearest portrait easel today!

Happy Portrait Day, everyone!

November is a time of feasting, so we here at Puzzle Pirates HQ have decided to celebrate the season in style with a properly mobile feast inside the hold of November's Limited Edition ship: the Harvest Class Cutter!

Here's Captain Quicksilver on the Harvest Class Cutter's quarterdeck, both decked out in warm Autumnal colors!

And this is the cozy hold of the Harvest Class Cutter, complete with Harvest Celebration feast and duty stations. That jolly tree would definitely come in handy if you happen to run out of carpentry materials, though we promise that it won't come to that!

The Harvest Class Cutter will only be around until 3 PM PDT on Thursday, December 1st, so harvest yours today!

"Corwyn's Haunted Church" background, now available!

With Halloween rapidly approaching, this Portrait Day we've decided to show up at your door with a giant candy bag stuffed with delicious portrait treats! The full list of new backgrounds...

• Cattrin's Out of the Coffin
• Corwyn's Haunted Cloister
• Dexla's Spider Web
• Rhodin's Festive Halloween
• Thedeath's Moonrise Among the Shadows

These great player-created backgrounds cover a wide variety of sizes, so no matter how big your group of hearties, we have you covered! Not only that, but in celebration of the season, we've also brought back a number of our favorite Halloween-themed backgrounds from previous years! Be sure to head to your nearest easel to take a peek at those!

All of these Halloween backgrounds will only be around until next Portrait Day, Tuesday, November 8th at 3 PM PST. Take yours now before the werewolf competition scampers off into the night!

Happy Portrait Day, everyone!

A shadowy presence known only as "The Grizzled Baron" has cursed the seas this Halloween, and now werewolfism is running rampant across the oceans. Not only that, but packs of wild werewolves can now be found harassing islands throughout the archipelagos! Show you're the leader of the pack this October and break the power of the sinister beast lord by battling the howling hordes and coming out on top!

The pirates of the oceans have been divided into several werewolf packs. For the duration of the competition, you'll earn points for your pack for every roving band of island-dwelling werewolves you defeat. At the end of the competition, all participants will receive a commemorative trophy, with the most prestigious going to the members of the victorious pack!

How does one become a werewolf, you ask? You can either be defeated in a rumble by an existing werewolf, or you can pick up a Moon Amulet from the Palace Shoppe to become a werewolf whenever you want!

The Tooth & Nail competition will stretch through Halloween until Monday, November 1st at 3 PM PDT. Happy Howler-ween!

It seems like it's been only a year since October last arrived, but it's back, and it's brought with it a new Limited Edition ship: the Phantom Class War Frigate!

Here's the Phantom Class War Frigate's incredibly spooky prow. It looks like that skelly mermaid was dredged up from the bottom of the ocean! I wonder how many battles she's seen?

And, of course, what would a Phantom Class ship be without a phantom? Spectral Abe here was reasonably well behaved during our brief tour of the vessel. What will the ghost on your ship look like?

The Phantom Class War Frigate will only be around until 3 PM PDT on Tuesday, November 1st, so grab yours now before it disappears into the mist!

Avast! Intrepid adventurers have managed to uncover a brand new cache of booty deep within the chilling grasp of the Haunted Seas' ship graveyards! A plethora of new trinkets and furniture items are now available from the Haunted Seas, ranging from bags upon bags of spectral gunpowder* to a very dangerous-looking haunted chest!

The crown jewel of the new treasures, however, is most assuredly the Haunted Class War Brig! Adorned with all kinds of unique trappings, such as a particularly unpleasant portal to the captain's cabin, and a haunted bust containing the soul of the ship's previous owner, the Haunted Class War Brig is the premier ship for any champion raider of the Nether-Sea.

The design for the Haunted Class War Brig and some of its premium attachments are now available from your ocean's Trading Posts, so head out to the edge of the Abyss today and add to your haunted trinket collection!

* Made from 100% powdered Barnabas.