We have a new hosted site added to The Mojo today: "The Polecat's Lounge." As you might guess, it's dedicated to the LucasArts classic adventure, Full Throttle. Featuring an extensive image gallery and flash content coming in the near future, it aims to entertain all the Full Throttle fans milling around the Internet without a home (page). Enjoy!
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We have a new hosted site added to The Mojo today: "The Polecat's Lounge." As you might guess, it's dedicated to the LucasArts classic adventure, Full Throttle. Featuring an extensive image gallery and flash content coming in the near future, it aims to entertain all the Full Throttle fans milling around the Internet without a home (page). Enjoy!
Skyfox, founder of The Monkey Island SCUMM Bar and pretty much the guy who started the who MI online community announced that he will be leaving the site after 6 years of running and updating the site. Here's an exerpt of his update:
Well, looks like this is it folks... after 6 years in the Monkey Island web business, it's time for me to take a back seat. Both this site and #monkey-island will be under the (ruthless) control of RemiO, he's done a fantastic job of late.. and he will not let us down. (no pressure mate!)We here at Mojo wish Skyfox the best in all his future endeavers and especially wish to thank him for starting the MI community, because if he hadn't, Mojo would probably not be around today. Good luck mate!
On a personal note, I'd just like to say that back in the day (God I'm not that old am I?) The ScummBar was THE Monkey island site, and still is. Anything MI you wanted you got there - Including the inspiration to build the site that eventually became Mojo.
Sky has been a friend for all this time (Mojo is 5 this summer) and i'm sure shall remain one.. Also I bet we will still see his face around here for some time to come. Enjoy yerself Ian! - Spaff.
Hey, just letting you know that the pop-ups that are appearing, as well as the banner ads at the top occasionally screwing up the site layout, are for the most part temporary.
There will still be the occasional pop-up in the future (gotta make some money to pay for this thing), but nowhere near the what seems like 75% of all page loads that it is now.
This is your last chance to bid on this round of ebay goodies. In 5 hours the first wave of auctions will be over! Get 'em while they're fresh
The Ebay auctions are going great, I just wanted to remind people that there are only 3 days left until these auctions end, and then we get some new ones up. At the moment we have a bottle of EMI Grog, a signed copy of EMI and a crazy magetic pluzzle thing.
If you are super-duper lucky, Jake might have snaffled some goodies from LEC on his recent trip there.
...through our fabulous auctions of rare and trinkety LucasArts merchandise! That's right, to raise money to pay our mammoth outstanding debt, and to provide you with the goodies you love, we're selling all the crazy LEC merchandise we can find, right here.
To start it off we have some stuff from EMI, including official bottles of Monkey Island Grog, some fridge magnets, and a copy of the game personally autographed by it's project leads, Mike Stemmle and Sean Clark.
Watch this page in the coming weeks as we hope to cart off more strange things. Pay for Mojo, get crazy stuff you cant find anywhere else... What a deal!
Thanks to Met for donating the signed copy of EMI, even after he won it from us in the first place!
We have a new hosted site here at Mixnmojo, and it's a little different. May we present Moobox, a site holding true to the widespread belief that LucasArts game developers don't get enough crazy mysterious mail. Worth looking at are this and this.
To be honest I think the replies will be what make or break it, but without encouragement nothing may ever be mailed off. Too crazy, or definitely worth continuing? What do you think?
To start off this week (or finish up last week, depending on how you see it), we've got a review of Galactic Battlegrounds, the recent Star Wars RTS from LucasArts and Ensemble Studios. Also included is a Mojo exclusive: the Special Ultimate Star Wars Smackdown Section, in which your least favorite Star Wars celebs duke it out in the Battlegrounds universe for no reason whatsoever. Exclusive!
Remi, of The SCUMM Bar, has written us a review of Star Wars: Obi-Wan for XBox, and basically crushes it.
What?s worse is how the textures used for Obi-Wan himself seem to break up completely when there?s some additional movement on screen. Something like this would be half-way excusable if it only happened on some of the bad guys, but on the main character? For heaven?s sake, we have to look at him all the time!Hopefully this is the last time we'll have to lay into a Star Wars game this hard, since the games on the horizon don't look so horrible. I'm actually frighteningly excited about JKII and Jedi Starfighter.
The Grim Fandango Network is sporting a new redesign by official Mojo Network Slave, Metallus. The new design (their fourth revision) features a php script based backend and quick access to hot forum threads.
Also, GFN has picked up three new sites: The Grim Mausoleum, The Rusty Anchor, and Grim Fandango World. Some of them seem to still be setting up, but they're worth checking out at least with the intent of visiting them again soon.
And just as I was about to ask if anyone had actually tried making the dish from the Cooking with Spaff feature, I get handed this url. The SCUMM Bar's RemiO has decided to try out the brilliant Dom dish for himself, accompanied by photos et all. Has anyone else attempted the meal? Let me hear your stories!
That's right, Adventure Developer, the pride of the Mixnmojo network, is back online after overcoming some technical troubles. With many amateur adventures making the news these days, we're very glad to have them back!
....Or is it? The House of Mojo wishes you all a lovely Valentines day, if you are reading this and you've got a 'date' then GO AND SEE THEM!!! Today this page is dedicated to all the lonley souls out there: Don't be sad, consider this your very own message of love, because as we all know I myself recieved some lovely cards from both my Mum and my Gran so that was great!.. at least i got some chocholate tho. :) Oh and thanks for all those folks that sent me some e-cards last week, those rocked my world! |
... or not. Today's feature du jour is a bit on the crazy, albeit tasty, side for a gaming news site. May we present Cooking with Spaff, a feature series for the chef in us all in which Spaff will cook up a new LucasArts staffer's recipe about once a week.
This week we have a pasta dish from Dominic Armato, the voice of Guybrush in the most recent two Monkey Islands. The recipe and steps Spaff went through are included, but if you don't care about cooking, or even reading, you can just look at the crazy pictures. Enjoy!
The near-grandaddy of Monkey Island sites, The Monkey Island SCUMM Bar is back online after our second server move knocked them out again. Note, though, that they have a new url: www.scummbar.com.
Go take a look at the news, read their features, create a user account account, go to user preferences, and set your color choice to "Dainty Lady."
Update: http://www.thescummbar.com is now forwarding to the new domain. - Metallus
Community artist "DanSky" (or, Giuliano "DanSky" D'Angelo) has opened the beginnings of his site, MicroXel Arts here at Mixnmojo. Though he hasn't put everything up yet, he plans on adding sections with art dedicated to or influenced by varions LucasArts/LucasFilms creations. DanSky's also been doing some art for Mojo which you will be seeing in the coming weeks. Though there is much more of it at his site, here are a couple quick examples of his work:
Ex-Mojo News Editor and GameStop employee Sarah has written an editorial feature about getting made fun of for being a fan of LucasArts that isn't in it for the Star Wars games. Definitely worth a read.
Anyone who is looking forward to Jedi Outcast and hasn't played the original Jedi Knight (or anyone who's lost their original CD) should be interested in Amazon's buy JKII, get JK free promotion going on right now. No, this doesn't include the lapel pin you get when ordering from LEC, but for anyone who missed out on the first game its a pretty nice package.
Now that we've started working more on the 3 missing sections (Features, Community, Hints & Tips) we want to know what you guys want to see in them, most importantly the Community tab (we basically have Features under control, and Hints & Tips isn't ready to be pounded out quite yet).
If there's anything you think would help make that part of the site worth checking more often than never at all please leave us some comments!
Fans of Trapezoid's Animutations will be glad to see this tribute to his fine work, complete with Matthew Lesko cameo, in the form of 'The Internet in a nutshell' (Ignore the lame beginning part! :).