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February 11, 2011

The Guild renewed for a fifth season

Filed under: Gaming, Humour, Media — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 12:59

Felicia Day and friends will be back for another season, thanks to Microsoft:

The Guild, in case you’re new, is the long-running series about a pack of socially awkward MMORPG addicts, created by Felicia Day and produced by Kim Evey. Launched independently in July 2007, the show has received over 100 million views (according to an official release) and attracted a worldwide fan base that fills convention halls.

I mention the convention thing because, as promised at the end of Season 4, the action of Season 5 will involve the characters attending a convention for the unnamed game they play. According to Evey, to handle this production requirement they’re not only considering shooting certain scenes at a small convention, but working with additional brands.

“We haven’t really had success with brand integration aside from Microsoft and Sprint, who help us make sure their brands are visible but not obnoxious,” Evey said via phone. “But the brands that we need now are brands which would sell their wares at a convention like this, and are willing to be in our show.”

December 9, 2010

Preview of The Guild: Vork

Filed under: Gaming, Media — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 00:54

Guild fans will be interested to see the first five pages of the The Guild: Vork at PopCandy:

As you may know, I’m a huge fan of The Guild, the funny, imaginative, geeky, gleeful and addictive web series created by Felicia Day. If you’ve seen one episode, chances are you’ve seen them all. (And bonus: The talented Wil Wheaton added some spark to the last two seasons.)

It makes sense that The Guild would branch out to comics, since much of its audience probably consists of comic-book fans. On Dec. 22 Dark Horse will issue The Guild: Vork, a story written by Day and Jeff Lewis (the actor who plays Vork in the series).

I offered you a preview of the Guild covers a few months ago. Now hold your breath, because I have the first six pages of Vork right here

October 27, 2010

Jeff Lewis – “Date”

Filed under: Humour — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 12:18

October 5, 2010

The Guild, Season 4 episode 12

Filed under: Gaming, Humour — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 07:52

<br /><a href="http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/season-4-episode-12-guild-hall/y016gv5e?fg=sharenoembed" target="_new"title="Season 4 - Episode 12 - Guild Hall">Video: Season 4 &#8211; Episode 12 &#8211; Guild Hall</a>

September 28, 2010

The Guild, Season 4 Episode 11

Filed under: Gaming, Humour — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 07:46

<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&#038;from=video_hub_the-guild&#038;fg=video_hub_the-guild&#038;vid=bc83c4e0-f9e4-49ca-a66e-6c3ce4c5753f" target="_new" title="Season 4 - Episode 11 - Hostile Takeovers">Video: Season 4 &#8211; Episode 11 &#8211; Hostile Takeovers</a>

September 21, 2010

The Guild, Season 4 Episode 10

Filed under: Gaming, Humour — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 07:40

<br /><a href="http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/season-4-episode-10-festival-of-the-sea/y04jsylz?fg=sharenoembed" target="_new"title="Season 4 - Episode 10 - Festival of the Sea">Video: Season 4 &#8211; Episode 10 &#8211; Festival of the Sea</a>

September 14, 2010

The Guild, Season 4 Episode 9

Filed under: Gaming, Humour — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 07:32

<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&#038;from=video_hub_the-guild&#038;fg=video_hub_the-guild&#038;vid=8cd490ba-c57d-4e57-a552-f8f6624f58b2" target="_new" title="Season 4 - Episode 9 - Pirate Paddy">Video: Season 4 &#8211; Episode 9 &#8211; Pirate Paddy</a>

August 31, 2010

The Guild, Season 4 Episode 7

Filed under: Gaming, Humour — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 08:06

<br /><a href="http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/season-4-episode-7-awkward-birthday/y033m2ey?fg=sharenoembed" target="_new"title="Season 4 - Episode 7 - Awkward Birthday!">Video: Season 4 &#8211; Episode 7 &#8211; Awkward Birthday!</a>

August 24, 2010

The Guild, Season 4 Episode 6

Filed under: Gaming, Humour — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 07:38

<br /><a href="http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/season-4-episode-6-weird-respawn/y0at2alk?fg=sharenoembed" target="_new"title="Season 4 - Episode 6 - Weird Respawn">Video: Season 4 &#8211; Episode 6 &#8211; Weird Respawn</a>

August 11, 2010

Felicia Day talks about making The Guild

Filed under: Economics, Gaming, Media, Technology — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 14:19

More at Fast Company.

August 10, 2010

The Guild Season 4, Episode 4

Filed under: Gaming, Humour — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 07:25

<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&#038;fg=MsnEntertainment_joseph_player&#038;vid=b6bdd68e-c989-4b96-a9c2-a30069e27ba3" target="_new" title="Season 4 - Episode 4 - Moving On">Video: Season 4 &#8211; Episode 4 &#8211; Moving On</a>

March 24, 2010

The Guild breaks into comics

Filed under: Gaming, Media — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 13:11

Didn’t it used to be the other way around, with comics graduating to live action shows or movies? Well, in this case, Felicia Day’s brilliant web series The Guild is moving to comic form, at least for three issues:

It’s too bad she has to work on her new Syfy movie today. Otherwise, Felicia Day would totally be stopping by any and all Toronto comic shops.

An actress, writer and much-loved geek goddess, Day has successfully transplanted her popular Web series The Guild from the Internet to the page as scribe for Dark Horse Comics’ charming new The Guild, a three-issue miniseries debuting in stores today.

She’s reminded of the one random day in Barnes & Noble when she first saw a DVD of The Guild, the award-winning online comedy that for three seasons has followed a girl named Cyd (Day) and her guild of eccentric fellow online gamers known as the Knights of Good.

“I kind of geeked out and took a picture of it for my own posterity. But I’m such a book and comic lover. It’s just seeing something that has my name on it. And then my face twice on one of the covers! So that’s kind of like, ‘Ugh, get over yourself,’ ” Day says, laughing.

“I can’t help but get a little sick of my face, but it is exciting. It’s fun to see myself drawn.”

I’m sure hoping that the no-longer-accurately-titled “World’s Biggest Book Store” has a copy in stock when I visit there tonight.

Update, 25 March: No, they didn’t. They also didn’t have John Scalzi’s The God Engines or The Trade of Queens, the final book in the Merchant Princes series by Charles Stross. I did manage to get one of the four items I was looking for, The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism by Theodore Dalrymple.

December 4, 2009

New trailer for Guild Wars 2

Filed under: Gaming — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 13:16

Update: According to a Twitter update, Felicia Day (star of The Guild) did the voice of Zojja the Asuran in the trailer. Lots of speculation on the game can be found at massively.com.

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