The International House of Mojo

It's about time we updated our poll. Last time, we wondered what would convince our readers to give up life as a Storm Trooper. Overwhelmingly, you responded that you would abandon the Galactic Empire in order to become mighty pirates.

This time, Mojo wants to know: What's the most important aspect when buying a new game? Vote away, dear readers!

Just a quick note to mention that the Mojo Forums have (finally) reached 10,000 posts. Thanks to everyone who stopped by, read, posted, and made things happen. Keep it up!

Yep, it's one of those frustrating and probably stupid "goodbye" posts. Just letting everone know that I'm moving out of Mojo House for a while. I'll probably still be around helping out "behind the scenes," but I won't be around really on the site, or for help.

For the time being I guess you'll all just have to crawl along without me... somehow (*cough cough*). Luckily you have DJG, telarium, Metallus, and the rest of the crew around (spaff, however, essentially quit months ago and is in denial).

Update: No, I'm still leaving, I just forgot to say bye! "Bye!"

We've published our writeup from LucasArts's recent Editor's Day, their bi-annual chance for news sites to come and play upcoming games. As the Editors Day hype-masters would put it, we got to look at "More than two amazing titles!" They were The Clone Wars, Bounty Hunter, and Jedi Knight II for consoles.

If Star Wars isn't your bag (oh, I joke), you should still give the story a look, as there's some Mojo goodness in there you might enjoy. Also, you can check out LucasArts' official Editor's Day page.

Looking for some other place to go to leave comments or chat it up until you're blue about LucasArts and friends? You might want to try our recently completed Other LucasArts Communities page, the final part of the Community Tab available at the top of every page.

The Other Communities page has links to discussion forums and the like for many sites both on and off of the Mixnmojo Network. Thanks to Metallus for finally getting this done. Click!

Attention all hosted site owners. Please backup your MySQL. We are taking backups but in case they fail for some reason (unlikely) or you want extremely recent ones (these were taken on July 26th) just make your own. That is all. Non-hosted site personel avert your eyes! ;)

Update (DJG): I just think the new update convention looks neat and I haven't done it yet. :) Anyway, also remember to change your nameservers (if you run a domain) to ns.lfnetwork.com and ns2.lfnetwork.com!

Sorry for the slow news week, but a few of your Mixnmojo staffers were hard at work attending an Editor's Day hosted by LucasArts. More on that later.

For now, LucasArts has posted a link to a new interview with LucasArts President Simon Jeffery at HomeLAN.com. While the interview doesn't reveal any new groundbreaking info, it is still an interesting read. Here's a quote:

HomeLAN - Similarly, the PC platform in terms of technology continues to grow and change at an accelerated rate. In your opinion, where does LucasArts see the PC gaming industry developing in the next year to 18 months?

Simon Jeffery - The PC gaming market will continue to evolve in an organic fashion as technology improves. We will not abdicate the PC market, and will continue to develop games, particularly games of certain genres, for the PC.

Check out the full interview if you are interested.

Sorry for the downtime earlier today. We were moving to a new server. Amazingly smooth this time, eh? Better than that one time a few months ago where we were offline for half of the year. Yeah. Anyway, we're back!

Update (Metallus): Actually, we haven't moved yet. It shouldn't be too much longer before the move is completed, however.

As pointed out by Emma, Mojo and our Ron Gilbert Interview were mentioned in this month's PC Gamer UK in the "This month in action/adventure games" section. Um, yay us! Woo! You can read the whole thing in the image below.

It's that time again, when El Poll Diablo demands that you do the right thing and vote in a new poll! But first, let's check the results of the last poll, "Have you ever had a LucasArts-related dream." It seems 53% of you (including Mojo staff of course), are sick, sick freaks. Shame on all of your subconsciouses!

Anyway onwards to the new poll! If (hey it could happen) you were a Stormtrooper... what would cause you to give it up? It's like that question "What would you do with 1 million dollars?" So choose your dream profession. Now.

Thanks to popular demand, Mojo now has editable comments! Yes that's right, typos no more! :) Here's how it works:

1) You can only edit your own comments.
2) You can only edit comments posted within the last 24 hours.
3) The number of times you have edited your comment will appear in the comments page.

So that's that... Enjoy!

Well, the previous poll is over. It seems only a couple people were interested in actually being able to set a default tab to view when you load mixnmojo.com, but quite a lot of you thought maybe someone else would like it. Guess those in the second group there were wrong (as proven by the first group).

Anyway, this new poll came from Marek of Adventure Gamers. The poll asks: Have you ever had a LucasArts-related dream? If you vote "yes," share about it in the comments, because that sort of thing is both hilarious and awesome. As usual, to vote just click your choice on the poll off to the right, there.

The former poll, Which fanclub would you join?, has ended. Tim Schafer has destroyed all with 40% of the voters choosing him. Ron Gilbert came in second with 25%. Spaff and "I love them all" fought it out for third at around 12% each, and "they all make me cry" got fourth with 6%.

Those who voted for Simon Jeffery, Tom Sarris, Dan Pettit, or Earl Boen (all of which were the true winners, you just don't know who to vote for), need not fear, though, as you have another chance to be bunched in with the winners. Yes, that means there's a new poll.

The new poll is about our recently opened Community Tab, available at the top of the site. The new comunity area of Mojo features headlines from around the network, recent Mojo stories, and current activity on the forums. When designing this section we realized that it might make a very appealing homepage for Mojo readers. ... Or would it? Luckily, we have polls for things like this.

The poll asks: Would you be interested being able to set the Community Tab to replace the News Tab as "www.mixnmojo.com" in your user options? You can cast your vote by choosing from the options down in the right sidebar there.

Mojo would like to extend a big (belated) birthday greeting to Ian Biggar, known to many in the community as Skyfox. For those who unfamiliar with the name, he's the founder of The SCUMM Bar, one of the largest and longest-running Monkey Island websites out there. So go leave him a message (or 25) already!

Mixnmojo proudly presents Part 2 of the Wilmunder Memoirs, which may be the final addition. In case you didn't read Part 1 last week (for shame), the Wilmunder Memoirs are a small series of stories and memories shared by long-time LucasArts programmer, Aric Wilmunder. Aric worked at the company from the early 80's until the late 90's and has seen everything from jaggi aliens to evil demonic pirates. Check out Part 2 here!

That's right yet another tab has (finally) been filled in on the Mojo8 navbar. Head over to the brand-spankin' new community section. There, you can find late breaking news on community sites, as well as Mojo headlines, new forum posts, featured mojo site, a hosted sites browser, and a history of Mixnmojo. A great potential home page (hint)!

So make sure click on that handy community tab on the top of the page. Now stay tuned (possibly for quite a while) while we try and get that Hints & Tips section up and running. ;)

The House of Mojo wishes our long time staff member, Andrew "telarium" Langley a happy 22nd birthday! Sure not much happens at your 22nd birthday but whatever. :)

For those of you that don't know Andrew, he posts lots and lots of news, writes content (yes the 'c' word) and makes cool Flash things like Pitfall and the coolest animation ever. Happy Birthday!

It seems that most of you (or most of you that actually vote) visit Mojo one heck of a lot. Mojo loves you. As for you casual viewers please don't go too long without visiting. ;)

With the formation of the new Dominic Armato fanclub, others can't be far behind. So tell us which one you'd most like to join! (No we're not starting one, we just needed a new poll idea.) :)

Well it's almost that time again when we flog off some of the great stuff we've collected from LucasArts. But before any of that can happen I would like to hear from the last people that bought stuff.

I havn't heard from anyone so I dont know who has their stuff and who doesn't. Of course this round of Ebay auctions had as many problems as the last round, with late deliveries all round, and Inter-border-super-paranoid-Customs-officials destroying Grog left right and center.

Mail me / leave a comment if you do / do not have your Ebay stuff. And everyone else beware that we are the worst shippers in the universe!.. but the stuff is always good :) Coming soon: EMI Posters & signed goodies.

In an effort to help celebrate LucasArts' 20 Anniversary, we are proud to introduce a new feature entitled Wilmunder Memoirs. Many of you may not be familiar with Aric Wilmunder, although you definitely should be. Aric started out in the early days of LucasFilm Games and remained at the company until 1999.

During his time, he helped co-create the famous adventure game engine called SCUMM and had a hand in almost every legendary LucasArts title. In this feature, Aric shares some of his favorite stories and memories of working at the company during the early days. Don't miss this one, folks. Read it here!