ghostgirl: Lovesick
Before she can rest in peace, Charlotte Usher must return to the tragic site of her death: high school. Once there, her assignment is to help a designated teen solve a personal problem in time for the all-important prom. But no one explained what happens if you fall in love with your class project. Charlotte would die (again) for love but facing the all-too-familiar feeling of invisibility may be too much for her to swallow.
Category: Announcements
MIMOBOT Core Series 2.5 is Here to Celebrate Our 5 Year Anniversary!
from Mimoco:
MIMOBOT Core Series
Hailing from Planet Blõôh…
the original MIMOBOTs that started it all have returned to Earth to celebrate Mimoco’s 5th Anniversary! Say hello to the new green Isadore and MIMOpals and learn more about our summer-long MIMOBOT extravaganza!
Infectious X MIMOBOT Design Challenge: Unmasked
Deadline: July 15, 2010
Call for Entries!
Video: Welcome to Planet Blõôh!
Meet the new Core Series MIMOBOTs with the help of Dr. Knowledgeus from his floating space lab in Galaxy 4210. Watch Now!
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Fun and Games with Riese the Series
from Riese:
UPDATE TIME!
I’ve made you wait, so I’m just going to jump right into this. New ARG (Alternate Reality Game)! I can’t think of a more fun way to start off the summer than with a whole new game.
This time around, the game will be more of a roleplay story, still with some puzzle elements of an ARG, but the way you play the game will determine the outcome. A “choose your own adventure” type. It will take place in Eleysia. By the end of the game, you will have either joined the Sect, or the Resistance, or possibly exiled?
This is a new story, new gameplay, and is open to anyone, whether you have played these types of games before or not. I’ll post rules and guidelines shortly. The game will be played out on the Riese fansite forums — www.WanderersofEleysia.com. Shelley, who runs the site, has kindly agreed to help out. Thank you Shelley!
The game will launch next Monday, July 5th. This week, get those creative gears oiled and thinking cogs tightened. Get ready to take on the role of an Eleysian citizen and enter a world where the Sect are in charge and every step you take is scrutinized and consequences are dire.
J!NX: Wil Wheaton Strikes Again!
from J!NX:
Wil Wheaton Goes Back to His Roots
Wil Wheaton’s brain is a deep well of creativity, which is why we have teamed up with him to bring you a series of tees that express what it means to be a geek. This week we bring you the second design of this series, where Wil has worked in collaboration with J!NX Artist Miguel “Borrador” Rojas to remind all of us where we come from, when gaming didn’t involve graphics cards, headsets, or authenticators. Like what you see? We’ve got two more shirts from this collaborative series being released on 7/5 and 7/12!
J!NX Design Arcade — Now Open for Voting!
The first round of Design Arcade entries have been uploaded and are available for voting! We asked you all for your best art and design concepts, and we were not disappointed. Whether you’re a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, ninjas, zombies, hacking, or spiritual enlightenment, there’s something in there for you. Vote for your favorite and earn 10 exp per vote!
-Team J!NX
Split Reason: June 2010 Newsletter
from Split Reason:
E3 is over and it was a hell of a show. Laughs and gasps were in abundance amidst a barrage of announcements, hands-on demo’s, and doctored presentations. Microsoft tried to show the pinnacle of digital river rafting with controller-less Kinect, Sony gave us a Black Wii with an illuminated tumor, and Nintendo dropped a 3D bombshell sending DS fans into rabid obsession. (Soon to be camping outside their nearest video game retailer with a bag of rupees.) In a nutshell, the event was an interactive game of paper-rock-scissors after a case of Bawls and a few shots of espresso; a sight to behold and cherish, as the competition is what drives innovation so we can play awesome new games in awesome new ways, forever, and ever.
Extra Life is creeping closer by the day, don’t forget to play a few games and heal the kids! It takes place on October 16th, 2010. The event aims to raise money and awareness for Childrens Miracle Network Hospitals. To date Extra Life has raised more than $300,000 dollars to help kids live long happy lives by providing hospitals with much needed funding for equipment and programs. 100% of the money raised stays where it is raised. In the gamers LOCAL CMN Hospital. Read more…
This month, we’re happy to announce the launch of the Co-Optimus Store @ Splitreason.com. Co-Optimus is a website dedicated to Co-Op games. Their job is to bring you the most comprehensive list of games that support co-op play, and give you all the details you need to stay up to date. Stop by their site to check out the latest in co-op gaming and don’t forget to stop by the store for a new t-shirt!
If anyone is looking to save a few bucks, we’re running a promo for the next few weeks offering 10% off. Just enter the promo code REDRING at check-out. Stayed glued to our Twitter and Facebook page for more savings, contests, and give-a-ways! Now, on to our new products for the month of June…
MacGuffin Film Podcast: Mary Jo Pehl Interview
An interview with Mary Jo Pehl, actress from Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Cinematic Titanic, at Scarecrow Video in 2010 by the MacGuffin Film Podcast.
UPDATE: See also:
Joel Hodgson Interview
Frank Conniff Interview
J. Elvis Weinstein Interview
Dave “Gruber” Allen Interview
Check Out What’s New for Celebration V This Week
from StarWars.com:
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Tell Your Story at Star Wars Celebration V
Fans of the Saga will have the unique opportunity to become a part of the Star Wars universe by contributing to Lucasfilm’s archive — The Star Wars Stories Project at Star Wars Celebration V this coming August in Orlando. Soliciting movie memories and fan nostalgia, the Stories Project is an ongoing initiative dedicated to chronicling the fan experience by inviting fans — young and old — to share their own anecdotes, missives and personal experiences through video testimonials. All four days of the convention, fans will have the opportunity to have their fifteen minutes in the spotlight, to tell their story as only they can tell it. Simply complete this form to reserve a timeslot during the event; a representative will contact you to schedule your 15 minute appointment. Reserve now! Appointments are filled on a first-come, first-reserved basis and once the slots are filled, we will not be able to accept addition reservations. Next door to the scheduled room, a walk-up Stories Project camera is planned, where fans can come without a reservation, for a limited number of hours each day. However, to avoid waiting in line, we recommend you make an online reservation. Sign up now to share your Star Wars memories!
Star Wars Stories Project at Celebration V
- By reservation: W305 A, Thursday-Saturday, August 12-14, 11am-6pm; Sunday, August 15, 11am-5pm
- Walk-up Star Wars Stories: W305 B, Thursday-Sunday, August 12-15, 11am-1pm, 3pm-5pm
Build Echo Base at Celebration V
Frank D’Iorio, the master diorama builder behind the fantastic fan-built dioramas at Celebrations II, III, and IV is returning for yet another Celebration, this time to lead fans in building Echo Base, the Rebel encampment on the ice planet Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back. D’Iorio will set the stage in the Diorama building area, and then adults and kids alike can come and build a portion of the scene — free of charge — which takes shape as one huge diorama over the course of the weekend. Attendees who have been to D’Iorio’s building areas agree that one of the best parts of building a diorama at Celebration is getting to take their portion home on the last day of the show. Read more on the Celebration V Diorama Building Area here.
Celebration V Art Show
Star Wars artists of extraordinary vision will be exhibiting and selling their original prints at Celebration V. Each of the artists listed here will have a limited number of prints available, created exclusively for the show. Most of these artists will be within the Celebration V Art Show area, hosted by ACME Archives, in the Celebration Experience Exhibit Hall. A few others will appear in their own booths on the exhibit floor. Here are some of the artists participating.
Weta: meet Jackie Chan, Xenodefugio and Pomson
from Weta:
New Pin Joins the Ranks!
Readers of VICTORY — Scientific Adventure Violence for Young Men and Literate Women will no doubt have drooled over the Pomson 6000 — a stonker of a beautiful ray rifle. We are testing the market for these beasts by making available a smidge of trinketry for lapel application. This pin joins previous pins — the Unnatural Selector and the Goliaton 83. Acquire one or perish excrutiatingly! (one of each if you want to be ABSOLUTELY certain)
Dr. Grordbort’s Exceptional Exhibition gets Shanghaied by Jackie Chan!
It was announced yesterday by Jackie Chan, the rapscallion, that the Dr. Grordbort’s Exceptional Exhibition that has recently closed its doors after a successful stint in Hong Kong, is next headed for Shanghai. There is a locomotorial electropictogrammatic recording the revelation to the publishing hordes right here! The readables and audibles seem to be encrypted (or possibly in Mandarin). But by Jove — you will get the gist!
LAST CHANCE to acquire an Unnatural Selector Ray Blunderbuss — only 5 LEFT!
Out of the 50, only 5 remain. Order yours now.
Steampunk Fashion Show and Gala Ball
The hugely talented provincials in the township of Oamaru on New Zealand’s largely deserted South Island, have put on an extraordinary event — a Steampunk Fashion Show. Grordbort Industries sent Kim Graham along as a judge for the competition and we had a very hard time getting her back from the League of Victorian Imagineers, as they’ve monikered themselves. For the results and a description of the event, please visit The League of Victorian Imagineers in Oamaru!
Xenodefugio Subtiltus — a mouthful on a multitude of levels!
The hive is a-flutter as yet another species is awarded with extinction! With the latest, the Xenodefugio Subtiltus, it’s actually been a struggle to keep it alive this long. More about that — and the chance to OWN one — on Wednesday 30 June! Keep them peeled! No… your eyes, stupid! Here’s an excerpt of behavioural characteristica: “To ascribe the characteristic ‘retarded’ to its movement would not be unfair, as these simple little beasts move unpredictably in a manner akin to an unhappy grasshopper with mild brain damage.”
Greg Broadmore — Philosophising in Switzerland
Greg Broadmore will no doubt be entrancing his audience when he descends on Neuchatel, with talk about Weta Workshop design philosophy and about creating Science Fiction Worlds such as Dr. Grordbort’s and District 9. This all takes place at the Imaging the Future Symposium at this year’s NIFFF, the Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival. In Neuchatel. Naturally. When? In the morning Thursday 8 July!
Dr. Grordbort’s for beginners
It is advisable, for beginners, not to throw themselves at the aether oscillating contraputronica straight away, but to familiarise oneself. We can think of no better way than to secure a “Dr. Grordbort’s for beginners” swag pack, consisting of no less (and no more) than seven items — all drawn from the blunter end of the Dr. Grordbort’s arsenal. There’s the book — Dr. Grordbort’s Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory — a stylish pin, a sleek and sexy keyring and four postcards. Neither of which can be used (as far as we’ve been able to establish) to cause any major harm (young impressionable minds excluded).
“San Diego Comic Convention”
A whole exhibition hall dedicated to compartmentalised picture essays? What a preposterous notion! And in the colonies? Pah! Alas, it seems to thoroughly have mesmerised Messrs Taylor, Broadmore, Launder and Tremont who are all going to attend Weta’s booth (#2615) alongside assorted totty. Again. Every year, the same debacle. This year, a number of hefty crates have been packed and forwarded. Contents include customised rayguns (on themes such as stripy animals, orientals with a death wish and Teutonic knife makers), a huge lump of faux stone, vaguely in the shape of the Matterhorn, which is allegedly to serve as a kind of beacon to the masses at the convention. And other shiny and desirable bits. Grordbort Industries production associates, “Weta” have a page of updates available for your perusal.
Gunstand. It’s a Universal thing!
Is your sidearm crying out for a cooling rack? Now we have these beauties in stock. A slap of cast iron with weight and heft to hold ANY of Dr. Grordbort’s range of aether oscillating handguns. The Pearce Atom, the F.M.O.M., the Goliathon 83, the Manmelter 3600zx, the Victorious Mongoose and last (and least) the space-age lightweight stealth pistol the Righteous Bison Indivisible Particle Smasher. Don’t singe your velour-clad travel case — cool and display your gear on a Universal Gun Stand today! (or in a few days, depending on the slackness of the freight forwarders).
Star Wars: New comics from a galaxy far, far away…
from Things from Another World:
There are so many great Star Wars comics on the horizon that it’s hard not to geek out. It’s been a great ride, but Star Wars: Legacy is approaching its 50th and final issue. What’s in store for Krayt and Skywalker? Find out this July!
Star Wars fans around the world are absolutely giddy about the upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic video game. The massively multiplayer online game promises to change your idea of the Star Wars Universe forever… and the new Star Wars: The Old Republic comic book series will kick everything off next month!
Shortly before the start of the Clone Wars, Count Dooku sends Jango Fett on a mission that will affect the course of Boba Fett’s life some twenty years later. But for now, neither of them knows what the future holds in store, and besides, they have their schedule filled dodging monsters and fighting bad guys! Star Wars: Blood Ties — A Tale of Jango and Boba Fett is a multigenerational tale of honor and redemption, starring two of the heaviest hitters in the Star Wars galaxy — the father-and-clone team of Jango and Boba Fett!
Star Wars: Invasion — Rescues started last month and we’re here to tell you that you’re missing out if you haven’t jumped aboard yet. The series features classic characters from the Star Wars universe like Luke, Han, and Leia and introduces us to Jacen, Jaina, Anakin (Han and Leia’s kids) and a slew of other characters. The Yuuzhan Vong pose a huge threat to peace in the galaxy — that is, unless the Solo children and their friend Finn Galfridian have anything to say about it.
Important Alert from “Star Wars” Celebration V
from StarWars.com:
It has recently been brought to our attention that other companies are posing as the operators of the Official Star Wars Celebration V Travel Desk.
Please note that the ONLY Official Housing Partner for Celebration V is powered by onPeak. We cannot guarantee the lowest possible room rates during your stay in Orlando this August when you book through any other housing agent.
With rooms in our official Celebration V housing block starting as low as just $65 per night, getting to Celebration has never been more affordable. Book before July 21 through the simple-to-use reservation website or with a helpful and friendly booking agent, and save!
Our priority is to serve you best and provide the lowest possible hotel rates available during your stay in Orlando this August. Be sure to look for the official logo of our exclusive housing partner, onPeak, before making any reservations and book before July 21.
See you there!
Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls: Hot Summer Sale, Cool Chibi Contest
from Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls:
Summer is officially here! And with this commencement of the summer solstice comes a SIZZLIN’ hot T-SHIRT SALE brought to you by your friends at MWGG Central Control.
Adult and Kids T-Shirts (originally priced @ $20) are now available at the MWGG Webstore for only 15 bucks! With savings at 25%, you couldn’t find a better deal even at zero gravity!
Is this sale too hot for you to handle? Well to keep things cool, we’re also having an exclusive MWGG POLAR FLEECE CHIBI CONTEST. Three lucky winners will win a hand-made, 15-inch, polar fleece Milky Way Chibi, designed and hand-sewn by creator Lauren Faust. These Chibis are not available in stores (yet) and will come with its very own certificate of authenticity.
All you need to do to enter the contest is purchase $15 worth of merchandise* at the MWGG Webstore or buy a MWGG Plush Doll online at FAO.com. Those who purchase a doll at FAO.com need only send proof of purchase to motherearth@milkywayandthegalaxygirls.com to be entered into the contest.
The T-SHIRT SALE and CONTEST will run until July 21st. Winners will be notified the following weekend.
Over and Out!
Mother Earth
* does not include shipping and handling
ThinkGeek thinks you rock (awwww)
from ThinkGeek:
Bacon-loving friends,
We’re not sure if you heard, but ThinkGeek recently got a 12-page cease & desist letter. Apparently the lawyers of the National Pork Board believe that we sell meat made from geriatric unicorns fattened on candy corn and rubbed down with Guinness by nuns in Ireland. They’re in a tizzy because we called it “The New White Meat.” The best part was when our lawyer explained they were a month behind on an April Fool’s joke.
And besides, who does more to promote the consumption of bacon than us? We should demand compensation for all the marketing we do for the magical animal known as the pig.
YouRock MIDI Electric Guitar
It’s an electric guitar that also works as a MIDI controller to use with just about any multi-track recording or sequencing software. Record your riffs directly into your computer without having to use a MIDI keyboard! The YouRock is 25 guitars, 50 synths, 25 tracks, and 50 drum tracks in one package. Even professional guitarists are shocked by how great the YouRock feels. Part of that is the speed of the triggering, sliding, and articulation, some of that is the unique characteristic of the strings. Have more fun and make more music with the YouRock MIDI Electric Guitar!
Balls, balls, balls!
Summer is full of balls: baseballs, softballs, soccer balls, wiffle balls, beach balls. Why not Buckyballs? Buy two sets of Buckyballs and get one free! Use the code HOTBALLS through 6/26/2010 at 12 midnight ET.
Find more What’s New items at ThinkGeek!