Sanrio Digital is splashing pink all over this “Black Friday” shopping weekend and the holidays with a special offer! Purchase Hello Kitty Online Premium Edition and enjoy DOUBLE Sanrio Cash Points: that’s $15 $30 worth of cash points! To take advantage of this amazing deal, simply buy a HKO Premium Edition box and redeem the retail code it comes with on the following dates:

• Thursday, Nov. 25 through Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010 (Thanksgiving Weekend)
• Wednesday, Dec. 1 through Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010 (Hanukkah)
• Friday, Dec. 24 through Friday, Dec. 31, 2010 (Christmas and Kwanzaa)

Grab a copy now and enjoy this limited time offer!

Hello Kitty Online Premium Edition is an ideal gift for the holidays. Each cute box includes the following goodies:

• $15 ($30 if redeemed during this Holiday offer) in Sanrio Cash Points to equip characters with premium in-game virtual items
• Choice of one out of four exclusive and cute virtual pets to be faithful companions on players’ adventures
• Hello Kitty Online game client on DVD
• Full-color 82-page Hello Kitty Online game manual
• Hello Kitty Online collector’s postcards

For more information regarding this promo, please email us at .
We have more great things coming this Holiday Season so stay tuned and come back often!

See you in-game!

The Hello Kitty Online Team

Hello Kitty® Online is pleased to announce that you can now purchase limited edition in-game items to support breast cancer research and awareness!

Millions of women each year are diagnosed with breast cancer. You can make a difference by purchasing the virtual Ribbon Awareness Tee and Ribbon Research Wand for 240 Sanrio Cash Points each or as a bundle for 390 Sanrio Cash Points. All of the proceeds from the in-game items will be donated by Sanrio Digital to the Massachusetts Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure® in support of nationwide funding for breast cancer awareness and research.

The items will be available all year-round to show Sanrio Digital’s on-going campaign to raise awareness and funds for important issues world-wide. Susan G. Komen for the Cure® is the global leader in funding life-saving breast cancer research. The organization has funded research that touched every major breast cancer advance of the past 27 years.

To read the rest of the announcement, please visit this link.
We look forward to working with all of the HKO players and Susan G. Komen for the Cure® in the fight against breast cancer.

See you in-game!

The Hello Kitty Online Team

November 1 is Hello Kitty’s birthday, and to celebrate HKO is holding a special charity event called Hello Kitty’s Birthday Cheer! From October 28 to November 15, 2010, come, be merry, and contribute to charity simply by taking part in this event! Win prizes, earn rewards, and try a bunch of new things! Learn more at the event guide page, read the release notes, or talk to the Party Clown in Sanrio Harbour to begin the adventure!

Charity details

Your efforts during this event will determine the sum of money that Sanrio Digital is going to donate to two worthy causes.

On October 18, super typhoon Megi slammed into the Philippines, causing widespread damage including rendering 200,000 people homeless and destroying hundreds of thousands of tons worth of food crops. The aid organization Save the Children is working to provide relief in the affected regions. The higher your donation score in this special event, the more money Sanrio Digital will donate to Save the Children. Two thirds of the total donation amount are reserved for Save the Children.

One third of the total donation is reserved for the Asian Youth Orchestra, which offers tuition-free opportunities for young pre-professional musicians to hone their skills and be exposed to varied artistic experiences.

Have fun!

The Hello Kitty Online Team

November 1 is Hello Kitty’s birthday and Hello Kitty Online has something special in store for you! The fun starts on October 28, 2010, in London! Read on for a preview.

Attention new players: we recommend that you download the full version of HKO (it’s free!) now to make sure you are all set to join this amazing event!

The Fun Starts Oct 28, 2010

New mechanic!
And we’re not talking about when Badzt-Maru tries to fix stuff! On Hello Kitty’s birthday, try a fascinating new system to deal with grumpy monsters! There’s a saying about honey and vinegar…

Get a little taste of winter!
Hello Kitty’s Birthday Cheer will take you to a jolly little area called the Snowy Wonderland: it’s wonderful, it has snow, and peril stalks among the snowmen and party balloons.

New items!
Some of them belong to the fireworks family! Some can be upgraded! Plus: Learn how to wrap a gift! ‘Nuff said!

Quaternary Megafauna!
According to the good Professor Doctor (and many other less illustrious authorities), animals of gigantic size trundled all over our planet until just over 10,000 years ago, before being wiped out in the Quaternary extinction event. In Sanrio Land there was no extinction event….

Special hats!
Come, be merry, and behold some very slick and fashionable party hats. These hats are so fantastic, they risk blowing themselves away! You might even manage to own one yourself!

Another good cause!
Hello Kitty Online is about helping people, and this event is no exception! Participate in this funfest to earn rewards and generate donations to charity – all for free! Compete as an individual or a guild, or just participate to have a good time - your efforts will count towards charity either way!

There will be cake.
Maybe. Who doesn’t enjoy a bit of cake after completing a sequence of arduous and demanding tasks?

Join us for birthday fun and games beginning on October 28, 2010. We’ll post more details about this epochal event a day or two before it begins, so check back here!

The Hello Kitty Online Team

From September 9 to September 30, 2010, players of Hello Kitty Online can participate in Chocolate Harbour Rescue, the chocolatiest event ever! Sanrio Harbour is in trouble – everything is covered in chocolate! Find out why and help cleanup efforts by participating in a brand new HKO charity event.

September 9 – 30, 2010

There’s chocolate everywhere in Sanrio Harbour: in the sea, on the beach, in the trees. The local wildlife is ill from eating too much chocolate and the residents are struggling to cope with weight gain and sugar rush. Even worse, there are reports of enormous chunks of chocolate terrorizing the beach! Where is the chocolate coming from? Can it be stopped before it smothers everything in an ecologically hazardous yet delicious coating?

Fortunately, Pochacco is on the case! He is organizing the Chocolate Harbour Rescue to reclaim Sanrio Harbour from the chocolaty invasion. To get started, adventurers with nerves of steel and a heroic tolerance for cocoa simply need to speak with Pochacco in Sanrio Harbour.

Participate in this event and your efforts will be converted into charity! See below for details.

Why You Should Play Hello Kitty’s Chocolate Harbour Rescue

• Chocolaty mayhem!

• Chocolate pets!

• Hazardous ambulating chocolates!

• Gigantic chocolate titans!

• Transform into a piece of chocolate!

• Chocolate milk! And cookies!

• It’s for charity!

Play for a Good Cause!

Hello Kitty Online players will mop up chocolates during the event to automatically generate donation points. At the end of the event (or when the cap is reached) Sanrio Digital will use total donation points generated by all HKO players to calculate donations for the following two organizations:

50% of the total donation will go to Oceana, an international organization focused on ocean conservation. Oceana is currently researching the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the largest such spill in history.

The other 50% of the donation total will go to UNICEF to contribute to relief efforts in Pakistan, where massive floods have destroyed much of the country, with over 20 million people affected. Unfortunately, the lack of contributions is jeopardizing relief operations. Here at HKO we think the plight of disaster victims supersedes all other considerations, and we urge everyone to help. Please click on the previous link to find out how you can donate directly.

Not only can you donate to the above two organizations simply by playing Hello Kitty Online, but we also encourage you to donate to or volunteer for a charity of your choice. If we all work together, we can make the world a better place!

Good luck and we hope you enjoy Hello Kitty Online’s Chocolate Harbour Rescue! Login to the game or click here to download Hello Kitty Online!

The Hello Kitty Online Team

Attention players of Hello Kitty Online North America and Global: it’s time to unleash your creativity and design your own HKO-themed flag using your character’s farm! Participate in HKO’s Farm Your Flag and you could win 1,000 Loyalty Points! All valid entries will receive 200 loyalty Points!

Read on to participate in this event. If you have any questions, please email onlinegame@hellokitty.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or check out the forums!

Instructions

1. Create an original flag using your farm. Choose and plant your seeds strategically so that they grow into plants that form an image. The image could be a Sanrio character or anything to do with Hello Kitty Online.

2. Take a screenshot of the farm when it’s ready. You can take a screenshot by hitting the key “F11”. The image will be stored in your Hello Kitty Online “screenshot” folder located in the directory where you installed the game.  The default path is “C:\Program Files\Sanrio Digital\Hello Kitty Online\screenshot”. 

3. Post it in your blog and send the link to gmeventblog@hellokitty.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .  You must complete both these steps in order for your entry to count.

4. In your email submission, please include your HKO character name, the address of your blog, and a brief explanation of your Farm Flag.

5. Players are limited to one entry only, so make sure you have achieved your masterpiece before you send it to us!

Terms and Conditions

1. Competition lasts from July 04 to July 10, 2010. Submission deadline is July 10, 2010, 23:59 EST.

2. Winners will be announced on July 16, 2010

3. Winning entries will be selected by the Hello Kitty Online team.

4. All blog entries are the property of SanrioTown.

5. SanrioTown reserves the right to change the conditions of this competition at its own discretion.

6. SanrioTown reserves the right to extend or terminate the competition at its own discretion.

7. Participation is restricted to players of HKO North America and HKO Global.

Prizes

All entries receive 200 Sanrio Loyalty Points.

5 winning entries per server will receive 1000 Sanrio Loyalty Points.

Have fun creating your flag!

The Hello Kitty Online team

Hi players! If you’d like to join Hello Kitty Online GM events, now we have a simple schedule for you to follow!

For more updates, please visit www.hellokittyonline.com.

(+8 GMT)  02.07.2010 18:00 - 19:00 - Loony Loopy Letters

(+8 GMT)  03.07.2010 01:00 - 02:00 - GM Racer

(+8 GMT)  03.07.2010 13:00 - 14:00 - Loony Loopy Letters

(+8 GMT)  03.07.2010 18:00 - 19:00 - Monster Hunter

(+8 GMT)  04.07.2010 01:00 - 02:00 - Loony Loopy Letters

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Woooohhoooo!!!

Happy birthday to everyone! Wooot~

We’d like to thank Rikki for collecting and updating all the birthdates of our dear HKO players. *hugs*

Post your birthdates on this thread to add you in the HKO Birthday list!

Stay tuned for more news and updates! \(^,^)/

Have you ever had pesky little critters pop up in your farm? Moles have always nabbed crops from farms all over Hello Kitty Online, but now things are about to take an unexpected turn! From June 11-13, 2010 participate in HKO Mole Mayhem, a wacky new event unlike any we’ve had before!

Deery Lou has organized an event to help everyone understand how to deal with the naughty moles. The Scarecrows have been turned to Scaremoles, and the towns have been filled with delicious fruits and veggie decorations to celebrate the event. But “someone” was not invited to the festivities, and so he’s planning to mess things up for everyone else!

Defend the cities from massive mole attacks!

A certain “someone” has convinced the great Star Mole leader that the real goodies are not on the farms, but in the cities! So now the moles are on the move, invading city after city, hoping to steal all the fruits and veggies. Only you can protect the civilized world from the great mole horde!

1. 1. The moles have carefully scheduled their daily invasions. A few minutes before each attack, you will be alerted as to which city the moles are planning to invade and who is in charge of the city defense.
   • First invasion      4:00 PM (server time)
   • Second invasion      8:00 PM (server time)
   • Third invasion      11:00 PM (server time)
2. Use your Sunbright Express train ticket to quickly reach the city indicated in the alert. During this event you can use the Sunbright Express as many times as you like free of charge as long as you have a Sunbright Express Ticket. You can get a special Mole Mayhem Ticket from city representatives (see below).
3. Talk to the Sanrio character representative in charge of the city’s defense, and accept the quest offered. The representatives for each city are:
   • Beijing      Deery Lou
   • Paris      Melody’s Grandma
   • London      George
   • Florapolis      Scone
   • Sanrio Harbour      Kappi
4. Once the moles arrive, find all 20 of them scattered around the city map and try to shoo them away. You only have 7 minutes to do so!

The moles are stubborn and will try to overrun a city 3 times before moving on to the next city. Defend each city through all 3 waves of invasion, and you will be rewarded by the grateful population! If the moles succeed, the fruit and veggie decorations will disappear, the moles will retreat with their loot, and you will not receive a reward (but you can try again during the next invasion).

City defense rewards

After each successful defense, all participating players will receive Dream Fragments. These can be used to purchase special buffs from the Party Masters in Sanrio Harbour, Florapolis, London, Paris and Beijing. Having these buffs will definitely prove useful to you as you play Hello Kitty Online. Dream Fragments will not expire, even after the end of Mole Mayhem. Visit the Party Master to find out more about these buffs!

Unlimited Sunbright Express train rides for ticket holders!

You read right! Sunbright Express management wants to do its share help adventurers defend the cities from pesky invaders, so from June 11-13, 2010, all players carrying Sunbright Express tickets can ride the train as many times as they want! If you’re in Sanrio Harbour and the next invasion is in Beijing, just head to the nearest Sunbright Express station and you’ll be there in no time!

No ticket yet? Visit the Sanrio character representative of each city to see how you can get a special Mole Mayhem Ticket!

Mole awareness quests

During the event, you’ll also be taught about moles by some of the friendly folks in Hello Kitty Online. Learn how to fend off the moles on your farm, and help Sanrio characters as they participate in the mole awareness event.

On the last day of the event, June 13, 2010, Peter Davis will offer a new quest. This is your chance to come face to face with the mastermind of the mole invasion and find out who is the criminal genius behind these events!

Don’t forget to check the Item Mall for limited edition items! Good luck and we hope you enjoy Hello Kitty Online’s Mole Mayhem!

The Hello Kitty Online team

From May 1 to May 10, 2010, SanrioTown is boosting the Loyalty Points multiplier to 5x! This means that during this period you will get five times the normal amount of Loyalty Points each time you use the site to blog, upload videos, or play games! Click here to see the full list of services that will award you Loyalty Points.

Sanrio Loyalty Points is the currency earned in SanrioTown. You can use Loyalty Points to buy the latest and hottest virtual items in Hello Kitty Online!