The International House of Mojo

Hello!
Me again, my Dig site still needs a webmaster to continue the work! So i'm waiting to here from you, e-mail me at Shaw@Soon.Com.

Just letting everyone know that the Mixnmojo Make us a Banner Contest ended yesterday with over 200 submitted entries! Thanks to all of you who submitted banners in hopes of winning a copy of Monkey 4 for the PS2. Exact details for how the winners will be chosen and prizes awarded, as well as the announcement of the winners themselves will be coming soon!

The Legend of Monkey Island has had a nice going over, and has been redesigned. While the layout is still familiar, the page has been neatened up lots. You should go over there and take a look, because it looks niiiiiiice

To vote for Mixnmojo in the LucasArts.com "which fan site do you visit most" poll! We're currently losing to the 3 Star Wars sites listed which makes sense, but we can at least bump Mojo up to third! Whoop!

Also I've been told that people want to keep copies of the campaign banners we've been running :) If that is actually true you can get them all in one file here.

Hey there! I'm Emma (as you might have already noticed). Mojo's latest addition to it's news team. In the not too distant future I'll be updating you with the latest happenings in the LucasArts community.

Are you an incredibly good 3D artist or programmer? Fancy working for the gaming indusrty in San Francisco with Tim Schafer and his merry men (and women)?

Tim has just informed me that Double Fine Productions is looking to hire 3D Artists and Senior Programmers. If you think you have what it takes, then email jobs@doublefine.com.

Wow! There are some really good banners coming in for the contest! You guys keep them coming in. At this rate I'll have to think up more prizes!

Yes! it's contest time again at The House of Mojo! What do you have to do? Design us a banner to advetise our site. What do you win? A press pack from the EMI PS2 party! - this includes game, hat, beermat puzzle and press release! Go enter!

We were slow to get it up, but our report on the trip to LucasArts and the Ranch from a week or so ago has been uploaded. There are 2 glorious pages of report accompanied by over 50 photographs for your viewing pleasure. (side note: there wasn't a great deal of room for comments on each photo, so ALT tags will provide you with descriptions of photos.) I hope you enjoy the read.

Coming soon we have: The EMI PS2 Release party, a PS2 contest and a report on our trip to meet with Tim Schafer at Double Fine Productions.

Today is the birthday of our absent-minded, double-named news-posting web-monkey: El Pollo Diablo, sometimes known by his real name of Graeme Chicken.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Go easy on the eggs, folks. After all, how would you like it if your own children were used against you?

LucasArts has put up this week's poll, asking you which LucasArts fan site you visit most often. The choice is clear: Mixnmojo.com ;) Actually we're just asking you be honest and dont try and spam or any of that stuff. Just toss a vote our way. After all, Mojo loves you?.

Spaff came out of retirement to make one more acquisition in his mission to take over all LEC coverage on the internet. The award winning site The World of Monkey Island created by Ken Christensen has joined the Mojo Network. Stay tuned for Mojo's newest plans to acquire CNET, and be sure to check out The World of Monkey Island for all your Monkey Island needs.

Jake and myself have just returned from our visit to Skywalker Ranch and the LucasArts building. We saw some great stuff going on inside the lec building and ate lunch at the Ranch (mmmm nice food) We will write a bigger update as soon as we have time.. most of our time is now being taken up by some of the games that we were given...

Don't like Mojo's news coverage? Well you can always read LucasFans. Oh, whats this? Yes, thats right, LucasFans is now part of Mojo. Spaff claims that his mission to dominate LEC coverage across the net is complete and he is now retiring. More on that as it develops. As for now, go read the pretty similar but now hosted by Mojo LucasFans.

Grim Fandango Central has just come up with some nice-looking forums, for all of you GF lovers. They'd love to have more members, so go check it out!

Finally the second half of our E3 report is online! Day 3 covers, well, a trip to Disneyland -- but in a good way, and for Day 4 we got a special chance to talk to the man himself, LucasArts president Simon Jeffery which you definitely want to read, about the all Star Wars lineup of this year, the companys fans, and more. Here's a quick couple of quotes about original titles in the coming year:

• "We're absolutely going to be making adventure games still."
• "Star Wars is very safe, but the original stuff, we can be very risky. We can do, you know, just mad, mad stuff."
• "Nearly all of our in-house effort is based on creating original games."

... is here! Go read about all of our adventures or something like that. Sorry for the post but golly are we tired! Day 2's update can be found here.

Well our report of day 1 at the E3 expo is up , its got loads of Starwars goodness in it, but if you read it all, at the end are some interesting FACTS OF THE DAY which are 100% not Star Wars. These facts will be in each days report and come straight from the mouths of LEC employees. (or ex) Other than that we have include Tom, Dom and maybe Ron! read away. The Starwars games are actually pretty good. no really, read it, go on !

Events are drawing to a close here on the first day of the E3 Expo. We've seen some great things, all of which I'll be updating the site with as soon as possible. We've met Dominic Armato and Bill Tiller, who have both been great fun. But the most interesting piece of news was when, during a chance meeting with Simon Jeffery he left us with this quote:

I'm sorry about the whole Star Wars thing, next year there will be loads of original titles.

Okay, so it wasn't that exact quote, but it was pretty near, he then said "ENNNGGHHHH!!" and destroyed downtown Los Angeles.

I'll be interviewing him tomorrow at some point, and we'll post it sometime on Sunday. So stay tuned for Star Wars, Star Wars, aaaand also some Star Wars (and Smash Bros Melee!) ... whoop!

Well, I'm just packing all my stuff away into a big ass suitcase, for tomorrow I shall be embarking on a massively long trip across the world to where E3 is being held: Los Angeles.

I'll be away from home for about 5 weeks, but I should be able to do the odd bit of Mojo work from Jake's house. :) We will keep you apprised with all E3 happenings as up-to-date and detailed as possible here on the main page. You'll see... even if it is all Star Wars news, it will still be... amusing?

So then E3 and Los Angeles here we come! Woooo!