Eleven Names: Summer Offensive

It's a popular time to come back. Electronic Arts announced they're going back to basics after spending $620 million to acquire BioWare and Pandemic Studios, both not exactly suppliers of mainstream bread and butter content. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, after a long hiatus are doing a summer tour with the Dropkick Murphys. Shai Hulud is putting out a new full length disc, after the last full length disc took roughly seven years to be released. Sega announced that it's publishing games from developer Platinum, which means that this is the official return of Clover Studios (You might have heard of Okami...) brass to work on new IPs.

(Mind of Mencia is also getting restarted, which means that if you like thoughtless "racial" humor that involves making fun of Mexicans and saying dee dee dee, you have something to look forward to. It means I'm going to want to submerge my skull in lava.)

Speaking of Skull (the mascot/lovable troll of webcomic PvP), he's leaving PvP. For good. 

Finally, us! We're doing new things with Eleven Names, or, to be precise, we're doing old things again. We're going back to theme weeks, when the four of us reconvene (with luck, this week), announcing new sources of content (soon!)  and hopefully having great content in store for  you. My perspective, is of course, quite different from Tom or Zach's. It's my hope that there's something more scheduled and regular for you, Zach is more of a "take 'em as they come" spirit, so there's a bit of friction there.

We do want to extend a lot of thanks to Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. Beth for their contributions, and among other things, we owe them a drink for their help in the birth of the site.

I would call this an indefinite hiatus, since, technically, we don't know when all of us are going to be on the internets at the same time, and our schedules do conflict, but, we are certain we are going to bring you new, as at least one banner suggests, juice from our mind grapes. It might take a while to bottle, but I think you'll find it's worth it.