When a single game is played compulsively to perhaps unhealthy quantities, your brain can be so monomaniacally focused on that one thing as to where glimpses of it infiltrate real life. We asked you to take these images--provided by the fine folks at GarageGames--and insert them into the day's current events.

At stake are five entries for the Fallen Empire: Legions private beta, which should still have a few weeks to go before being open to the public. You can find the full gallery of entries here, so without further ado here are our choices for the first group of winners.

• giftotg provides claritousissity in a time of need
• This is actually Ajax's nicer side
• ieGod will stop at nothing for the right outfit that will stop for nothing
• freshmeat92 isn't just for Open Source news now
• And finally, Krash., I'm sorry, I just can't do it

So there you have our favorites, though fear not if we didn't pick you. Why? Well, we thought things could be taken a bit further, so there will be five more invites up for grabs over at GarageGames' InstantAction website.

In a few days the entries will all be re-posted there for another vote, and this time we hand choice over to you. Everyone will be able to pick their favorites, the top five receiving beta access.

Thank you everyone for all the entries. Even if you didn't win, I had to make some hard choices, which is a pretty great problem to have at times like these.