R.O.S.E Online has come to Europe. If you sign up in January, you'll have a chance to be one of the 50 players who will be picked out to be able to compete for prizes that include a top purse of a million Euros. That's pretty good odds!

R.O.S.E Online is pretty kawaii - lots of glitter and purple, cute girl avatars, magic, planets: slightly reminiscent of World of Warcraft's gnome class (who are adorable). This may well have significant appeal to those strange half-humans: "tweens".

On an aside, the press release rambles off into some entertainingly inane detail: for instance, we hear that R.O.S.E stands for "Rush On Seven Episodes" which is a direct translation from the original Korean. Antony Burgess, the CEO of the publisher GamesRouter, comments that

"'Rush' is very apt as players will certainly rush to level up to be tough enough to try and defeat the in-game monsters with their well-honed skills".

Ooh *wince*. Mister. Shh. Back to your spreadsheets.