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The LucasArts Fan Network is proud to announce that after being open for six months, LucasForums has passed 50,000 registered members! To all the people that have registered in May, welcome to the community.

If you havn't registered yet, you should!
You can go and talk with all the crazy folks about anything under the sun... and possibly over it.
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I'd like to welcome aboard the newest LFNetwork affiliate, StarWarsKnights.com! They've officially opened today, with a great design and a dedicated staff of Star Wars nuts! The site focuses on the upcoming BioWare/LucasArts console release, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Check out the site, and be sure to stop by their forums.
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Please ignore that headline.

Sad news on the community front, as it seems that the guys over at the Monkey Island Quake Clan have decided to close the site. Here's an excerpt from the 'farewell' post:
So this is it, I guess. After 10 astounding clan tournaments, nearly 50 members, past and present, numerous clan servers, and a grand total of 0 successful clan matches, MIQC is brought to a close.
As one of the last people to join up with the MIQC, I'm very sorry that I didn't get to participate in some of the earlier activities and I wish them the best in their future ventures. Please be sure to visit the site and leave them a comment.
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The Grim Fandango Network has put up its first ever featured article (well, in recent years, that is). Charles Frederick, better known as MeddlingMonk around the GF community, has submitted four of his works of fiction, including the popular full-size Grim Fandango novel, as well as three other short stories. Check them out here!

Also be sure to look for more features from the GFN coming your way soon(ish)!
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This is the first news out of these guys in a while: The Kickstand, one of Mojo's Full Throttle sites, has put up two new interviews.

The first is an incredibly short one with Bill Tiller (who is better known as the lead background artist on the Curse of Monkey Island), and the other is with Keith Karloff of The Gone Jackals. The Gone Jackals provided most of the lyrical music in Full Throttle, including the tune that plays during the game's opening credits.
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DarthMaulUK, of GalacticBattles.com, has a copy of the upcoming Clone Campaigns expansion pack for Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, that he will be giving away in a competition. Find out the details on this thread!
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The SCUMM Bar's Captain Mystery is back with a new colum called "You People Really Need To Shut Up - Why Jumping To Conclusions Ain?t Useful". In this, his third article, the Captain talks about the excessive speculation that occurs around E3 time, and goes on some side-trips to "discuss" Star Wars-haters and other smaller sects of the LEC fan world.
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I'm very happy to report that the one formerly known as Captain Dread (and currently known as MetaFox) has returned to take over the best on-line Grim Fandango fan club ever, the Lost Souls Alliance.

Some of you "old school" Grim Fandango fans will remember that Dread took charge of this site back in 1999, and ran it for about a year before he left the LucasArts community. He's back now, and has also brought back his LucasArts fan site MegaMonkey, which covers many LEC titles. It's great to have him back.
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For those of you who have yet to check out the Mixnmojo forums, or have been out of the loop in the last week or three, there have been several updates to them in the past week.

First of all, they've been thoroughly rearranged to, hopefully, better suit the Mojo community. In addition to this, we've added some new hosted community forums, including dig.mixnmojo.com and SCUMM hacking discussion forums. There are more community forums getting hosted soon, so now is the time to stop by!

As always, we want to hear your feedback about how to serve our readers better, so be sure to post your questions and comments!

Stay tuned for more Mojo community love!
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Daniel Wishart, webmaster of LucasTones, sends word that version 3 of the site is complete, thanks to the design work of the artist formerly known as Zaarin. Looks great! Be on the lookout for more from Daniel and LucasTones in the near future.
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Mojo hosted site Mediocre Entertainment is back! Mediocre Entertainment is a game developer group whose current project is an adventure entitled Day After The Night Before. They've posted a demo of their adventure game engine "KAGE" so make sure to check that out.
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Our own Monkey Island fan site, The SCUMM Bar, has posted an article about cel-shading and how it could possibly be used in the next Monkey Island game. In case you are unfamiliar with it, cel-shading is a method of processing 3D graphics so that they look more like 2D cartoons while still maintaining the same flexibility. While no one knows what kind of art style will be used for any possible Monkey Island sequel, it's a very interesting article that explores the possibilities.
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The SCUMM Bar has a new fun "game" by our own Andrew "telarium" Langley. In this fantastic flash-based time-waster you can dress Monkey Island 1's Guybrush up in various silly outfits.

The game and art used is by Steve Purcell and appeared in Adventurer #2 in Spring of 1991. You can also print your creations. Play!
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The SCUMM Bar's outspoken columnist, Captain Mystery, has returned with a new article titled Stories Guaranteed To Give You A Headache - Why Your Fan Fiction Ain?t Good.

As the title implies, Captain Mystery has gone and read lots of LucasArts-themed fanfic, and didn't like it so much. Fanfic writers, haters, and bored readers should all read it and write him back.
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The staff of the MI Art Connection have added a new dimension to their ever-expanding site: Music. They've already gotten a couple of talented people to put up their creations, and they could use some more! One of these musicians is Animutation's Trapezoid, who has been entertaining the Monkey Island community with his LEC-themed songs and remixes for a while now. If you haven't checked out MIAC yet, you really should.
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Hot on the heels of JK2Radiant comes an add-on program that allows maps from Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight to be imported to Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast. I'm not sure how it all works, but it looks to be a useful tool for old-school and aspiring mapmakers (cartographers?) alike.

Check 'er out!

Source: The Massassi Temple

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The Monkey Island Art Connection needs you! They have updated today with news that they're looking for any new or unknown fan artsists or musicians interested in joining their gallery. If you're interested, be sure to go and sign up. If you're not but know a friend who might be, send them over.
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DOTTcom has a new section of their site entirely dedicated to Day of the Tentacle and Maniac Mansion add-ons for The Sims. While not all of the pages seem to be working yet, they offer floors, walls, new characters and more for you to toy with.

Now you too can starve Bernard and then set him on fire while Nurse Edna, trapped in a 3x3 tile room with nothing but a coffee pot, soils the floor. Fun!
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The SCUMM Bar has run a new article, titled "Another Lesson on Legal Anarchy - Why Your Fan Game Ain't Legit (Or Even Good)." The article, obviously a response to AdventureDeveloper's original "A Lesson on Legal Anarchy - How to Avoid the Cold Wrath of LEC," tells why your LucasArts-based fan game has very little chance of surviving in the real world, and little reason to exist at all.

As was mentioned in the comments section at the bottom, the article doesn't address the "Parody" defense at all. This could be viewed as the weak point of a well written article, or the saving grace of fangames (though I sometimes wonder where some fan games lie on the line between "parody" and "rip-off").

Also, Dominic Armato drops in on the comments to further remind us why companies have to chase after fan work, even if they love it more than they love their own work. The article and most all the comments to date are definitely worth your time, so get reading.
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Yes it's been very slack from my end recently, but its time to get that sorted. I need all the hosted / network sites out there to email me so I can make sure I have the correct contact address for you.

In the email please make sure you list anything you need such as the banner code. When I think I have everyone listed I will send out a letter with all the relevant information on living at mixnmojo.

The unfinished sections of Mojo will also be completed in this period of what we like to call 'Mojo Smackdown' (that is unless something insane happens to me... again)

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