Rob DenBleyker has turned down his prize pack for Joe Zombie 6, stating, "Keep the prizes. I couldn't take money for something I do for fun. Plus, you already gave me a free shirt at Comic-Con. :)"
I have therefor decided to pass down the award to Glaiel and BoMToons for Aqua Slug. Congrats, guys!
If you pick up this month's issue of Game Informer, page 16 has a full page picture from Alien Hominid for the XBOX 360, as part of an article about hot games coming to Live Arcade. The following page also highlights Alien Hominid and our new upcoming game, Castle Crashers.
I hear the new issue of EGM lists Castle Crashers as #9 on their hot list, I still need to grab a copy!
Joystiq has written a glowing piece about Castle Crashers and is also having a Castle Crashers t-shirt giveaway! You can see PAX footage of Castle Crashers on Joystiq, or on Gametrailers.com, where the footage originated. Be sure to read my PAX page if you haven't already!
In other news, be sure to read my post below about user names. We can no longer allow dashes in the front or back of user names and can no longer allow underscores. Some users have already found out this is because user names must now adhere to domain name standards, so we can have pages such as tomfulp.newgrounds.com. If you haven't changed your user name yet, it will soon be auto-formatted by a script and you will receive an email with the new name.
I have manually updated hundreds of names since this weekend and we have been working with artists to make sure they get the best names possible. If you feel like you got burnt in this transition, please PM me and I'll do my best to help you out. A lot of good has actually come from the transition - we released a lot of great user names that previously belonged to inactive users since the late 90s and early 2000. It's great to see active users getting the names they always wanted but could never have.