Black Friday — it’s not just about shopping. It’s about worthy words winning. In other words, the time to reveal the 2012 Snakehead Writing Contest finalists is at hand. Writing Contest Volume of Entries We received a large number of entries. We were overwhelmed by the sheer number and quality[…]
Playing Catch-up
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,[…]
StarPirates Ascension 2 Details Released
Ascensions are the “Game within the Game” expansion to www.starpirates.net. They enable experienced players to relive the joys, and struggles, of their early days in the game. The first hours of playing in Ascension resemble that of “Hunger Games” with wholesale chaos, and mad scrambles for power. Soon after the[…]
Coliseum Gets Its Independance
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[…]
Ascension 2
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[…]
SHG May Save your Life!
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[…]
Robocop at SHG
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[…]
Crystal Method & War Reporting
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[…]
Ominouser And Ominouser
The Oort cloud is abuzz with…curious readings. The spy rings of 2165 are quietly reeling from the implications of the so-called “Canberra Incident”. (Which didn’t TECHNICALLY happen IN Canberra, but you know how it is…) And in the real world, Twitter feeds are also abuzz. What can it all mean?[…]
Todaybour Day…
As the month draws to a close, Snakehead Fans, so does the Writing Contest enter its last month! And, in fact, the early bird special ends tomorrow! (There’s still time if you’ve got just a little bit more to do…remember, it’s 1000 points in the game of your choice if[…]
The Snakehead Interviews – Priyanka Jain
There’s nothing like a good piece of art, and I for one have NEVER produced a good piece of art. I mean, sure, Mom put my crayon drawings up on the fridge, even when I was fifteen years old, but I understand now that she was just…sorry, Snakehead Fans, where[…]