It’s been awhile since we’ve honoured our players for their hard work leveling in Star Pirates and Spy Battle. Here are all the notable mentions since we last posted. Star Pirates: Level 50: BunnyBlaster, pothocboots, The Viking, Soylent, Drakion, IfrIIquIS, Le Chef, PuckInEye, maximus, Alverin, Warped Speed, ONE EYE SNAKE, John Dark, Rinchwind, Hawkfunk, redd1, Edward Valiant, Ghost Grojar, Ghotir, Insidious Level 60: aussiepirate, Action Man, afterblast, G@ntt, Zapp Brannigan, Kwazy, Hone, Javelin, Wash, Staneslav, Johnmaduk, skycool, Invader Zim Level [...]

By player request, as of Monday, October 22 Coliseum will be migrated from an app inside of Facebook to a stand-alone site. Current players will be able to log in through the ‘Connect with Facebook’ button. New players will be able to register with a Facebook account or a username/password combination. As of Monday, October 22 the game will move to http://www.coliseumconquest.com. Please pass the word!

Great news for all free captains! Work on a second Ascension for Star Pirates is well under way. The story has been written and transcribed into hundreds of mission nodes, and well over a hundred encounters unique to Ascension 2 have been created. Currently work is being done to integrate this mission properly into the existing game, and there will also be some graphics and items which will need to be created. Then it will be ready for the first [...]

SHG is dedicated to helping bored office workers – it’s our calling. It turns out that we may be helping not only save your sanity, but your life as well. The recently launched documentary on Boredom shows that boredom isn’t the relaxing state we thought it was — it’s actually very stressful on your system raising cortisol, and so blood pressure and all that bad stuff. It’s a pretty neat video, and it’s caught public attention so the director is [...]

As you may know, the new Robocop movie is being filmed now. And where better to showcase near future urban Dystopia than SHG HQ. Hmm, that didn’t come out right. Anyway, it’s not exactly IN our building but all AROUND 195 James St. N, Hamilton. On every side of our building the film crews are working hard, but mostly at night. Rumour has it that Head of Shield, errr, Samuel L. Jackson was hanging out in our parking lot last [...]

Even the most hardy of pirates was in awe today as some kind of crystal invasion force descended upon the Lower Belt. Not much is known about the nature of this force, aside from a few observations and even more wild speculation. But what we can be fairly certain about is that it seemed to have come from the Oort Cloud. Luckily for all of us (especially those who dwell around the Lower Belts), the free pirates managed to repel [...]