Gamers are generally a highly creative group of people. We all spend some of our free time running avatars through virtual worlds, and most of us come up with at least small biographies for them (whether we openly admit it or not).

Now, Palit and AMD are focusing on that creativity in their City of Heroes "Create a Character" costume contest . As the name implies, your job is to skillfully create a completely unique character (hero or villain, of course) with an interesting costume and backstory by Oct. 17. The grand prize is a $2,000 custom gaming PC by Smooth Creations , as well as a unique in-game title. Runner-up prizes include Palit Radeon video cards.

For the long list of rules, check here . Basically, work on your screenshot skills because you'll be taking a lot of them.