Update from weekend’s downtime (17)

3/08/10 •

We’re sorry for our extended downtime today and over the weekend. We’ve missed you just as much as you missed us! There was a crash bug that we’ve now fixed. Thank you for your patience during our beta period (3x more stable than alpha era!)

There were a very small number of players whose player files were corrupted. We are going to have to restore your player data from backups. As a result, some data loss may occur, specifically with your ..read more

Watch the trailer to Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow’s first movie, the awesome vampire thriller “Near Dark”! (1)

3/08/10 •

A lot of us ohais were cheering Kathryn Bigelow’s Best Director Oscar win for The Hurt Locker last night, not just because she’s an excellent filmmaker and she’s the first woman to win the award (about time!), but also because her first* movie as director was the awesome and influential cult vampire thriller Near Dark from 1987.

Co-starring three cast members from James Cameron’s Aliens (she and the Avatar director first met around this time; ..read more

City of Eternals servers down now, but back up soon! UPDATE: ohai, we’re online again! (1)

3/08/10 •

UPDATE, 3:12pm: City of Eternals is back up and should be running smoothly, once again serving all your zombie-battling, vampire minion-growing needs! Very sorry for the downtime, and thanks much for your patience.

ohai all, happy Monday! If you’re having trouble logging into City of Eternals, hang loose, ohai engineers are busy poking and prodding on the problem now, and the world should be back to its usual zombie-filled, sexy vampire self in the next few hours. For ..read more

City of Eternals update: new clothes, missions, and awesome updates coming next week! (2)

3/05/10 •

ohai all — Matt is away on vacation assaulting innocent whalesharks or somesuch, but rest assured, big content updates are coming early next week. That means new clothing, housing items, and missions — and that’s just a small part of a bigger Batty update.

To my top left, for instance, just a brief glimpse of the vampiric finery about to drop. In a few days, expect to see New Valencia’s sexiest elite wearing clothes like those — ..read more

Sunny with a chance of EXPLOSIONS! (1)

3/04/10 •

ohai all, it’s your online community manager again!  I just wanted to let everyone know that I’ll be taking a bit of a vacation for the next two weeks or so.  Public safety laws prevent me from saying exactly where I will be going (there have been riots), but if you’re a big Southeast Asian newspaper fan, here’s a list of phrases you might look for: “exploding JetBoat,” “skateboarded out of an airplane,” “noted international jewel thief” and ..read more

“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” movie coming soon from Tim Burton and director of “Wanted”! (1)

3/03/10 •

The vampire slayer novel coming soon to a store near you is now coming to a movie theater too: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter has been optioned by Tim Burton. (With nine projects already in development, that now makes ten upcoming vampire movies, two from Burton.)

We’ve already written about the historical mash-up by Seth Grahame-Smith, in which the Great Emancipator ..read more

City of Eternals – Giant New Update! (0)

3/02/10 •

We’ve got tons of new stuff for you today, including brand new furniture for sale!  If you want the details, you’ll have to check out the forums!

Have fun!

–matt, ohai online community manager

You’ve got to fight for your right to zombie! (2)

3/01/10 •

ohai all — here’s some good Monday news from the world of zombie civil rights. Yes, there is such a thing: to protest mindless consumerism, a group of activists dressed up as zombies and showed up in a Minneapolis shopping district. (You know, like in Dawn of the Dead, but more protest-y.) The police promptly put the zombies in a holding cell, who are now suing the cops for wrongful detention. Allowing the ..read more