We're back!

Hey guys,

It's been a while since I blogged and coming back to my page brought back many memories! I decided to restart my blog, but of course I needed some help;)

ChoGossip is now a blog we're gossip will be shared by two authors; myself and Sylva.
We will be sure to share one-of-a-kind, unique stories and gossip so stay tuned.

I hope this new look is successful, comment below what else you'd like to see!

Maya

Minor Updates!

Hey Chobots,

Around Chobots there has been some great updates for the Chobot world. The updates look amazing, and you will first begin to see the updates as you login! Notice that the server color bars have been changed to a nice looking blue.

Now, if you head on over to Cafe Street you will see that all of the Earth Day decorations have been removed.

And finally when you go into your wardrobe and hover over an item, you'll see it's name! This is a really neat update because if you are looking up a certain item in the market simply hover over it and it will give you the name!

When you log onto Chobots you will get a message asking you to change your passwords. This is for security purposes and making sure that everyone's account is safe.

Also, the bodies button has been updated to the "Premium Items" button! This button looks a lot more sleek and I just prefer way more over the old one. 

What do you guys think of these minor updates? I really like them, especially the "Change Your Password" message because if there's something going wrong on Chobots, they want to make sure everyone is safe and secure. Leave a comment saying what you like the most in these updates!

Stay Safe,

Captain

Weekend of Epic Updates!

Hello guys,
Chobots Team have worked very hard and have introduced a new feature to the game. This is called the market! This is a place where you can sell in-game items to other Chos by auctioning them and bidding on other users items.

How to sell an item?
To the bottom left of your wardrobe, there should be a blue bin. This is where you send your items to sell, you simply drag an item you will be auctioning into the bin.

Then a new tab will appear on your browser, this is the listings page and you will be asked to choose a starting bid, how long the auction should last and then you click 'Create my Auction

It should redirect you to the market homepage and there you have it, your auction is up and ready!
Warning:  When you have listed an item into the market, you cannot access the item in-game.

To view your auction, you click the 'My Auctions' button on the market homepage and a page should appear of your current items on auction and your bidding history.

How do I bid on an item?
To bid on an item, you first need to add bugs into your market account. To do this, you need to click the 'Manage Funds' button located on the bottom of the market page. This will give you the choice to add bugs to your market account, or add bugs back to your chobot account.

After your account has enough bugs for an item you've viewed, you are ready to bid on it! To bid on an item you need to hover over the items tag and a green button which says 'BID' will appear, simply click on it and it will take you to the items auction page.

 

Now you need to bid higher than the current amount and you are the new bidding leader for the item.

What happens when I win an item?
The seller will be notified when their auction is over and will be asked whether they want to sell the item to you. After they have confirmed, the transaction is completed; you will receive the item and they will receive the bugs. If they choose to decline the transaction, they will receive a 5000 bugs fee and you will get back 110% of your winning bid.

Tip: If you want people to bid on your items, be generous on the starting price. You will soon find that multiple users will want your item and raise the bid up high. For example, pricing choproff glasses as 99,999 is pointless because they are free items.

Found a bug or have a suggestion?
Since this is a new feature, there is bound to be bugs in it. If you have found one simply click the Feedback/Bugs button located at the bottom of the market page and tell us!

 

I hope you have great fun bidding and selling.

Fashion Party!
Have you all enjoyed fashion week? Well, to finish off this spectacular week, we've decided to host a giant fashion show for all you Chobots!

The party will take place on Sunday, April 28 at 21:00 Cho Time. We will be having our fashion show at the Disco Lounge.
I hope to see you there!

That's all for now,
Comment what you think about the market!
Twinkle

April Agents

Aye Aye Chobots!

After a careful review of all the Agent Poll, the winners have been announced! It was a close race between the top three candidates, but as you know only two could win. Please congratulate Program and Kelly123 on a job well done, you girls have both proven yourselves Agent materiel and we know you won't let us down!

 

  Fun Fact: The third place candidate was only two votes off from getting their Agent badge.

Once again, congratulations!
Don't forget that the theme for today is back to the future so stay fashionable!

Captain

Arts and Fashion Madness!

Aye Aye Chobots!

My name is Captain and I'm a new author here on ChoGossip and I'm super excited to be apart of Twinkle's blog. I've prepared a short little paragraph about myself, just so you readers can get to know me a bit more..

My name is Mike, but a lot of you know my as Captain. I'm an Agent for the virtual world Chobots, and I love my job! Apart from Chobots, I enjoy playing sports like baseball and lacrosse, playing video games with friends, listening to music, and just hanging out. I joined Chobots back in early Chobots.com beta, and I've been going strong sense.

Fashion Week
Do you enjoy going to fashion shows with your friends? If so, then we have some fantastic news for you! The Chobots Team has made this week all about fashion, so you're going to have a chance to win some sweet prizes at the end of the week.

Below you will find the themes for each day of the week:

Monday - Animal/Green

Tuesday - Black and White

Wednesday - Opposite Genders

Thursday - Blast From The Past

Friday - Your Signature Style

Saturday - Futuristic

Each day of the week a Moderator will come on in-game and see who has the best style. At the end of the week, there will be a big party in the Fashion Show room!

Art Around Chobots
As you may know, Chobots.net is full of a lot of talented and artistic users. So, I went around Chobots and found some really neat drawings on the walls. Take a look at what I found!

Drawn by Kelly123

Drawn by Eggs

Drawn by Brand

Fantastic drawings guys, they I love the shading effects on each one. And the drawing by Eggs looks just like a Chobot! Keep up the great work friends.

Once again, thank you Twinkle for having me on this amazing blog, and to those who are going to take part in Fashion Week - Good luck!

Captain

Contests, contests, and a lot more contests!

Hey guys, how've you been? This post contains a lot of contest talk so be prepared!

CMV Champions
These amazing Chobots have bagged themselves 1st, 2nd and 3rd place from the CMV contest, take a look!

In first place, we have Dean! To view his video, look below:

In second place, we have Illusiion! To view his video, look below:

Our last winner is King! To view his video, look below:

Great job guys.
You will be awarded with 10 days of citizenship and 7000 bugs. Dean and Illusion will receive a video camera. On the other hand, King will receive a red rosette instead as he already has a video camera. Enjoy your prizes!

Design Contest
To all of you amazing designers out there, this is the competition for you! This is your chance to show off your cool designs and get your inner creativity out in the open. You mission is to create an item or chat bubble or a brand new location, they must have a hint of spring or summer as that is the theme we are going for. Here's the templates you can use:

Good luck!

Blog Template Giveaway

I hope you guys haven't forgotten that I'm giving away an entire blog package for absolutely free! I'm doing anything and everything to try and get lots of people to enter.

The rules are simple, all you have to do is follow my blog and comment on the contest post.

Click here for the post.

That's a lot of contest talk! Thanks for reading,
Comment your favourite contest below!
Twinkle

Party and Fun!

Hey Chobots! Peace here. How are you all? Can you guess which Movie/TV character I am?

Yup, I'm the Wicked Witch of the West from one of my favorite movies, The Wizard of Oz. I'm preparing myself for a special party that's coming up. That's right, a Movie Party! Everyone is gonna dress up as their favorite character and what better place to hold a movie party than the Cinema! Music, magic and more will happen so I hope you can go! Here are the details:

Update: Movie Party will be hosted in Server Milkyway due to city name changes.

Great Styles

Speaking of movie and TV character styles, I saw some very cool styles around Chobots today!

• Illusiion: I like the way he used the complimentary colors blue and orange and incorporated the cool jetpack!
• Chalk: I really love her outfit, the shade of pink is cute and the wings add an angelic look!
• Perfectlexie: I like how all of her red items really pop out, nice style!

Great outfits everyone, I'm always looking for stylish Chos.

Awkward Choment of the Week

This happens to me all the time! That awkward moment when you receive a message and you click on the green button instead. 

Cool Chobots Art!

Wandering around the forum I noticed some nice art our users have drawn for us!

Look at this wonderful drawing by Vasa12345, it's such a beautiful landscape. Good Job!

Another cool drawing by Ilusiion has a nice 3D effect to it, like the heart is popping out! Great effects!

Okay that's all for now, I hope you can make it to the party!

More gossip to come!

Comment your favourite Movie/TV character!

Peace

Contests, contests & more contests!

Hi there, Chobots.
Swifter here, with a whole package of news! Let's get started, shall we?

April Journalists
The April Journalists have been announced! :O
Ooh, the tension! The Journalists of April 2013 are....

Bebot

Bluezorogirl13

Cati886

Drytoby

Eggs

Lisa09 & David09

Perfectlexie & Flapiefeet

Smiley

Twinklefairyx

Vasa12345

Congratulations, you guys! You've worked really hard on your blogs & it's finally paid off.

I'm sure you'll have a really fun time as Journalists. It really is an amazing achievement.

And, in return for all of your hard work you receive all of the following:

• Journalist badge on your playercard with your blog title. 
• The possibility for your blog to be featured on the play page. 
• Your blog will be featured on the Official Blog! 
• Moderators will bookmark your website! 
• You will be invited to write one blog post on the Official Blog. 
• You will be added to an exclusive mailing list to receive all the behind-the-scenes 
• information and news before anyone else does. 
• One free week of citizenship in the beginning of the month. 
• Automatically receive the feather item. 
• PC moderators even though their player-card is blocked. 
• Purple name-tag. 

Elite Journalists

This is a new scheme which will be starting this month! The Chobots Team have introduced to us.. ''Elite Journalists''. This is a new rank allowing Journalists to have more control over the Official Blog. To qualify for this spectacular rank, you must have been in the journalist system for at least 2 months and have amazing blogging skills. You do not currently need to be a journalist to be chosen.

Brand New Contest!

A brand new contest that has been added to Chobots! The Chobots Team have decided to host a contest with one of our favorite mascots.... CHOPIX!!! That's right. There's a new contest with one of our quests. Fact: This has never been done before! Isn't that just an awesome idea?
Obviously, for each competition, you have to have a scoreboard. Right? Well, they've added one, and I've gotta say; it's looking swift!

It's bright & pink! That's nice. You wouldn't have any trouble finding it, would you? Haha.

Very, very nice indeed! But, hurry! You don't have long to get as many points as you can! The contest is ending on April 15th! Good luck, and may the odds be forever in your favour.

75 Followers Contest

Twinkle will host a contest for an entire blog template when she reaches 75 followers! This includes a header, moving banner, blog banner, buttons, images and so much more!

Share the blog to your friends, only one more follower to go!

Thank you for reading my post,

Comment your favourite contest!

Swifter

Recruiting April Journalists

A new month has began and the Chobots Team have decided to recruit new journalists into the scheme. There are certain requirements you must follow to participate in this program.

• You're posts should not be copied from a different source; you have to write them yourself. You are free to copy pictures from the Official Blog, however if you are taking it from another Chobot's blog, you should always ask for their permission first.
• Be creative and unique - Your posts don't always have to be about Chobots. You could share a story, you could post diary entries, comics.. anything that will make your blog noticed by the judges.
• Your blog must be at least a month old and your blog should be updated at least twice a week.

If you feel that your blog has covered all the requirements then submit your blog!

How? 

Click here to read the official post, this is where you should submit your blog.

You have until Friday, April 12

Have you been submitting your blog since the start of this program and not been very successful? Well I've written the perfect guide for you! Simply click here to read it.

Former journalists do not have to re-submit their blogs.

Good luck to all you budding authors.

Twinkle

Baking/Craft Contest Winners

Hello Guys, a few weeks back we had a baking or a craft contest and the winners have been picked and announced  I am pretty sure it must have been very tough for the staff to choose the winners, however they have picked 4 winning entries!
So here's the moment we've all been waiting for.. the winners!

Chalk

I like how the tissue paper underneath the basket is multi-colored, also the mini easter eggs look extra awesome! xD

Pigscanfly

His drawing shows so many scenes in one big picture. The three chobots fighting over the easter egg, people chatting, having fun.. great drawing!

Twinklefairyx

This cake looks and probably tasted delicious. I like how Twinkle used a refreshing green color for the grass and then added mini eggs in the corners.

Kelly123

This must have taken a long time to create! Even the background has been painted by Kelly! I love the Easter eggs surrounding the Chobot. Looks super cute!

For their hard work they will receive:
2 weeks of citizenship!
6,000 bugs
Chef suit

I hope you enjoy your prizes!
What do you think of the rewards? Write a comment below!

Furry

My wardrobe!

Hey guys, many of you have requested to see my wardrobe so I decided to post it on my blog and the forums! Click here to view my wardrobe thread.
Ok, so here it is! Drum roll please! xD

There we go! Sorry my wardrobe's a bit messy lol. Also, the pics are quite small but if you go to my thread on the forum they will have a bigger picture!

That's all for now,

Comment any items you like in my wardrobe, I might trade!

Twinkle

April Fools!

Hey guys! It's April Fools Day today! I would have fooled you about something serious like closing my blog or that my goldfish died but I want today to be a happy day full of laughter and joy.. I'm so nice xD
Soo much news to share with you guys :D

April Citizenship

These deals are probably the best deals I have ever seen in Chobots History! 7 amazing items for 12 months, are the Chobots Team trying to trick us?! I guess not because the package seems to be very popular!

1 Month - 'Black 'n' White'

Bonus: 10,000 Bugs

Price: $4.99

Exclusives:

1 Playercard Skin

6 Month - 'Mushroom Hopper'

Bonus: 65,000 Bugs

Price: $24.99

Exclusives:1 Magic Item

1 Playercard Skin

1 Chat Bubble

12 Month - 'Funky Florist'

Bonus: 150,000 Bugs

Price: $44.99

Exclusives:2 Magic Items

2 Playercard Skins

2 Chat Bubbles!

What are you waiting for? Buy citizenship today!

$hop Items

Mainly old $hop items are here. A new colour chooser is now available so you can choose the exact shade of colour you want now!

I love the spring chat bubble, it's so fresh and simple.

Old citizenship items?! I guess Chobots kept to their promise and now we have awesome citizenship items available to be purchased at the shop!

Coming Soon Catalogue

The colour changeable flame wings have finally been added to the game! Now you can match the wings with any style you like! Everyone are really excited for this item, also it is for juniors!

Check out this amazing outfit our moderator Max has created with the colour changeble wings. His are green.

That's all for now,

Comment your favourite $hop item or Citizenship deal.

Twinkle

Easter Madness

Hi, Chobots!
It's a very busy time of the month, do you know why?
Easter is coming! It's time for chocolate eggs, easter bunnies, treasure hunts and new life!

Easter Party
An Easter party hasn't been officially approved at the moment, or in other words, posted on the main blog. However, it has said a party will be coming on our March Events page.

Let's hope that the Chobots Team have enough time on their hands to host one!

Easter Contest
You all know that Easter is coming up, right? Well, the Chobots Team have planned and created an awesome new contest for everyone to take part in!
"Well, what's the contest?" For the contest, you either have to bake or craft something Easter & Chobots-related.

You're probably thinking what sort of things you could do.

• You could bake a Chobots cake for your entry.
• You could also draw a really nice picture for your entry!
• You could even build something, perhaps a cool card or some woodwork?

Be sure to be as creative as you can because the winners will be awarded with some fantastic prizes.

Remember, it must be both related to Easter and Chobots.

You have until Saturday, March 30th to submit your entries. You can submit them here!

Awkward Choment of the Week

That Awkward Choment when you attempt to click another player, but end up clicking another room. Knowing that you've clicked another room, you try to click another spot to avoid the accidental room change, but end up clicking a random player. The result in this is you walking into a room with some random  users playercard! I made a little video to show you what I mean.

Isn't that just plain awkward? 

Well, thanks a lot for reading today's post! Be sure to comment your awkward choment!

Until next time.

Swifter

Updates and Agents!

Hey guys!
Cool new updates, new agents will be inluded in this post! x]
Be sure to read on..

Game Updates
Recently there was a poll on the forum to whether the old login page should be back.
Well, I guess that there were more votes for it to be back so it has been restored!
In my opinion, the animated homepage however many Chobots seem to like the new homepage.

I think the new login/old login screen is is awesome, it really brings back old memories of .com - iTunez

 I think that the new login is kind of old, and I don't particulaly like it. I think it would be better if there were .net logins or especially NEW ones! - Smiley

I think the login updates are great! It's starting to look like .com on the home page. - Wolfyy

Here are some pictures:

 

New Agents

Ok, recently our Agents' Team list has been very short and we needed some new Agents!
For this reason, the team took their time to pick an extra two agents for Chobots.
I would like to congratulate FlapieFeet and PerfectLexie as you two are our new agents!
Here are their trackers:

Cool Fact

PerfectLexie and FlapieFeet are not only related.. they're not only sisters.. but TWIN sisters!

How cool is that?!

That's all for now,
Be sure to comment what you think of the new updates.

Twinkle

Juicy Gossip - Contests and Heroes

Hey everyone! It's my first official post!
So, recently there has been a contest and garbage collector heroes! If you carry on reading, I will explain each of these topics in more detail.

CMV Contest
There is a new contest on the main blog. The theme is CMV!

What is a CMV?
CMV is a Chobots Music Video. It is where you choose a song and record your Chobot reciting each verse of the song. You can have friends helping you by dancing along or singing with you.

To enter this contest, you have to create a Chobots Music Video, the song choice is entirely up to you, as long as it is relevant. You must then comment your video URL on the blog post.

A winning entry should have/be:

You have until Sunday, 10th of March, to submit your video. The winners will be awarded with some cool prizes! Good luck to everyone.

Garbage Heroes
Chobots is nice and tidy, thanks to three amazing Chobots. They earned themselves 1st, 2nd and 3rd place of the Garbage Collector Contest.

That's right! Congratulations: Ryan6872, TheUFO and Pigscanfly for being the top three in our contest! That smelly smell in the Garbage Collector is gone and Chobots can finally breathe in the sweet air. x]

That's all for now.
Stay tuned for more news and gossip!

Program