The Guild Season 3 Premiere on Xbox

from The Guild:

We’re so excited to announce that Episode 1 of Season 3 of The Guild is now on Xbox Live for Gold Members!

This premiere will be exclusive to Gold members for 1 week, and then be wide for Silver members, MSN streaming viewers and Zune downloads on September 1rst. After that episodes will roll out simultaneously on all Microsoft portals.

And for everyone’s enjoyment, we have posted a Season 3 trailer, SPOILERS if you don’t want to watch!

Sing with The Legend of Neil! Episode 3 is Live

from The Legend of Neil:

Watch as Hyrule breaks out into song in this brand new and very special Legend of Neil musical episode. See if you can tell which character’s singing voice is voiced by Maurissa Tancharoen of Dr. Horrible fame. And buy some t-shirts so I can pay rent.

And for those of you asking. We’re working on mp3s for download from the musical. Hang in there, but keep posting comments about it on atom.com so that they see it and know you want it! I know you want it… awww yeah!

Sanctuary: The Complete First Season in Stores September 15

Even things that go bump in the night need protection...
Even things that go bump in the night need protection...

This September, E1 Entertainment proudly brings to DVD one of television’s most talked about and groundbreaking new series. Blazing an innovative trail, the hit Syfy original series Sanctuary features awe-inspiring virtual sets and visual effects as it follows Dr. Helen Magnus (Amanda Tapping) on her quest to study and protect the extraordinary and legendary creatures that secretly live among us. On September 15, prepare to believe in the unbelievable as Sanctuary: The Complete First Season debuts on DVD in a deluxe, 4-disc set featuring all 13 exhilarating Season One episodes plus over two hours of bonus features for only $44.98 SRP.

“With cutting-edge technology, Sanctuary creates a world teeming with mermaids, dinosaurs and monster mayhem.”

–TV Guide

Presented in 16×9 anamorphic widescreen with 5.1 Surround Sound and optional English and Spanish subtitles, Sanctuary: The Complete First Season also includes an arsenal of exclusive extras including: audio commentaries on all 13 episodes with cast and crew including Amanda Tapping, creator Damian Kindler, director Martin Wood and more; three making-of featurettes (“Welcome to the Sanctuary,” “Sanctuary Residents” and “Sanctuary Visual Effects”); the original Sanctuary webisodes (which provided the inspiration for the television series); a bloopers reel; behind-the-scenes photo gallery and an exclusive sneak peek at Season Two, which premieres on Syfy Friday, October 9 at 10/9 Central.

Sanctuary follows the adventures of the beautiful, enigmatic and always surprising Dr. Helen Magnus, her new recruit, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Will Zimmerman and her fearless daughter Ashley. Together they track down, study and protect the strange and often terrifying creatures that secretly populate our world. Although dismissed as monstrous figments of our imaginations and the stuff of our nightmares, Magnus recognizes that the world is full of nature’s mistakes and triumphs. And she has the spectacular proof that they are indeed real. For some “abnormals”, Magnus is their protector. For a dangerous few, she is their captor.

Sanctuary stars Amanda Tapping as Dr. Helen Magnus (Stargate SG-1), Robin Dunne as Dr. Will Zimmerman (Dawson’s Creek), Emilie Ullerup as Ashley (jPod), Christopher Heyerdahl as the sinister John Druitt (Stargate Atlantis) and Ryan Robbins as Henry Foss (Battlestar Galactica).

Braving new worlds in each episode is just the start for Sanctuary. The series is also proudly credited for pioneering new techniques and technology in television production. Recently nominated for a 2009 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Special Visual Effects, Sanctuary is one of the only series to shoot extensively on green screen. The series was also the first in North America to shoot with the new RED camera — a digital system that captures images at four times the resolution of a high definition camera, resulting in a look that is unmatched on television.

The Sanctuary creative team includes executive producer, writer and creator Damian Kindler (Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis); executive producer and lead actor Amanda Tapping (Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis); and executive producer and director Martin Wood (Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis). In addition, Sam Egan (Jeremiah, The Outer Limits) serves as executive producer and writer along with John Smith (Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis) and Keith Beedie as executive producers. Sanctuary is distributed by Tricon Films and Television. For more information, visit sanctuaryforall.com.

New Cabonauts Videos

from The Cabonauts:

Hey Cabonautees,

Couple new video interviews to share with you. Co-starring in the pilot is Dollhouse‘s Miracle Laurie and we did an interview with her here.

Also co-starring is Buffy‘s James C. Leary and his first interview is here.

We’re also on the front page of popular online magazine iProng. You can read that interview here.

And some news out of Chicago’s Comic-Con the other week — we’re going to be doing an episode with Buck Rogers‘s Gil Gerard and Erin Gray, reunited for the first time in a while!

Add us on Twitter — http://twitter.com/thecabonauts — and PLEASE PLEASE help us out by inviting your friends to join the Facebook fan page!! You can find it here.

All hail!

The Guild — Do You Wanna Date My Avatar?

Amazon MP3
iTunes Video

Directed by: Jed Whedon
Music by: Jed Whedon
Lyrics by: Felicia Day
Rap: Jeff Lewis and Sandeep Parikh
Backup Vocals: Maurissa Tancharoen and Jed Whedon
Director of Photography: Omer Ganai
Choreography: Chantal Robeson
Edited by: Jeff Yorkes

Costumes: Sarah Trost
Weapons: Greg Aranowitz
Production Design: Tyler Robinson

Starring: Vincent Caso, Felicia Day, Jeff Lewis, Amy Okuda, Sandeep Parikh, Robin Thorsen

Dancers: Bijoya Das, Jul Kohler, Maurissa Tancharoen

The Guild Music Video

from The Guild:

Today we’re pleased to rollout our music video “Do You Wanna Date My Avatar” for streaming and purchase!
Streaming Links below:
Video on MSN
Video on YouTube

We are lucky enough to be able to offer you the song for purchase, so to support us, you can get it at the following places:
Amazon MP3 (Also available in international Amazon stores)
iTunes MP3 (Also available in international iTunes stores)
iTunes Video
The song will also be offered on eMusic, Napster, Rhapsody, Amie St., LimeWire, Lala and the Nokia Music stores. Check your favorite place, they should have it!

You can also get it for free from:
Xbox Live Marketplace
Zune Marketplace (Video in HD!)
Streaming on MSN

And if you would, please embed, favorite and rate our video. We’d love it if everyone, including new people who are finding the show through your ratings, could enjoy. 🙂

EDIT:
Per request we are posting the lyrics to the song!
MUSIC AND LYRICS BY FELICIA DAY AND JED WHEDON

LYRICS:
Hang with me in my MMO
So many places we can go
You’ll never see my actual face
Our love, our love will be in a virtual space

I’m craving to emote with you
So many animations I can do
Be anything you want me to be
Come on, come on, share a potion with me

CHORUS:
Do you wanna date my Avatar
She’s a star
And she’s hotter than reality by far
Wanna date my Avatar?

You can type commands
I’ve got slots for what I hold in my hands
Don’t care what’s in your character bank
How ‘bout, How ‘bout a little tank and spank

Grab your mouse and stroke the keys
Here in cyberspace there’s no disease
Pick a time, send a tell to me
Just pay, just pay a small subscription fee

CHORUS

Single white human,
Looking for group
My stats so high
Don’t be out of the loop

Got an uber-leet staff
That you can equip
Close your mouths ladies
This is pure nerd-nip

I’m a pixel-based fantasy
A man who is stoic
I hack and slash
Who the heck’s more heroic?

Check me out:
Cloth armor
Fits me like a glove
Just twitta a time
And I’m ready for love

Hang with me in my MMO
So many places we can go
I’m better than a real world quest
You’ll touch, my plus 5 to dexterity vest

What role do you wanna play
I’m just a click away night or day
And if you think I’m not the one
Log off, Log off and we’ll be done

Thank you so much and stay tuned for Season 3 rollout, just around the corner! August 25th on Xbox Live and September 1rst on MSN/ZUNE!

The Guild Management

Cast of The Guild Live at BlizzCon

from The Guild:

We are pleased to announce that the whole cast will once again be making a live appearance at this year’s BlizzCon! Taking place next week, August 21rst and 22nd in Anaheim, CA, we will be participating in a discussion panel and chatting with attendees about all aspects of the show at our bigger and badder booth! We’ll have DVDs and pictures with us for sale, and will show some exclusive content, so please stop by if you’re there and say hello!

Check for more info at Blizzcon.com or WorldOfWarcraft.com.

The Legend of Neil: Death in Store — Season 2, Episode 2 Released Today

from The Legend of Neil:

Neil lovers, the fun continues as Neil enters the store and finds much more danger than he bargained for! Check out the second episode here! Catch up on the first episode if you haven’t caught it yet (is that even possible?!) For up-to-the-second reports, contests and other goodies be sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or RSS. Oh and buy an official Legend of Neil t-shirt. It goes a long way to helping us get you more of what you love, more Neil!

Guild Comic-Con Wrap Up!

from The Guild:

We’ve been very busy since Comic-Con getting Season 3 ready for launch, but we wanted to catch up anyone who didn’t manage to meet us down there on what happened!

First, we had a booth and met probably thousands of fans over the weekend! Thanks to each and every person who stopped by the booth or waited patiently in line to meet us, we were overwhelmed with all the support! Web video is hard work with low pay, so meeting fans is the thing that gets us through the solitary-behind-the-computer months. We met tons of people; check out lots of awesome photos in our Flickr Guild Group.

Xbox, our sponsor, treated us to a party on Thursday night with Beatles Rock Band and 50 lucky fans who completed our scavenger hunt got to attend with us! It was a very fun “easter egg” evening.

Next, we had a completely sold-out crowd for our Friday Morning panel, where we screened our bonus Music Video and Episode 1 of Season 3. We surprised attendees with appearing IN OUR AVATAR COSTUMES. 😀 It was quite a thrill for us and we know the audience enjoyed it! Also, we revealed that Wil Wheaton will be appearing as a Guest Star in Season 3, and there will be a Guild Comic being made with Dark Horse Comics so it was an hour full of surprises. We wish every single one of our fans could have been there with us.

Here are links to The Guild Panel (minus the two videos screening) in 6 parts!
Panel Part 1
Panel Part 2
Panel Part 3
Panel Part 4
Panel Part 5
Panel Part 6

All of us had a fantastic time in San Diego, but we’re already back to work! We’re launching our Music Video, “Do You Wanna Date My Avatar” on Xbox Live Monday, August 10th, and excitingly the video will go everywhere on the 17th, embeddable and purchasable as a video and a song! After that, Season 3 will launch to Gold Xbox members on August 25th and then on MSN/Zune on the 1rst of September, rolling out every week throughout the fall. We hope you enjoy, it’s gonna be a bigger season that we’ve ever tried before!

Also, we have more convention appearances lined up in the coming weeks, so subscribe to our RSS, fan us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter to stay up to date! 🙂