This will likely be the final news update for this website.

It is commonly known and plainly obvious that this clan is inactive and can hardly be called a clan anymore.  The simple fact that even a few of you come here anymore shows that you are interested in being in a clan.  This post is for you guys.

Another gaming clan, known as Section 8 Gaming (S8G) has recently come to my attention.  I have looked it over and have become interested.  They are what I like to call a 'mega' clan, as it has well over 1600 members, a third of which are very active, and  It has a good ranking system and chain of command.

S8G Snipuh and myself have migrated over there, and any and all members are welcome to join us!

Right now there is a recruiting halt for our company, but in about a month there won't be because we will split, and then you will be able to join with us into out company.

Check out their website, here.

Before making an account on their website, talk to S8G Snipuh over XBox Live, he will tell you better about the clan, and he has the ability to recruit you because he is a Captain. You need to talk to him before signing up, because people from other batallions will try to poach you when you get onto the site.

There is a thread when you load the website called "are you interested in joining S8G". Click on it, and then click the first thread, inside of which there is a link called "info on S8G", which has the rank structure, honor code, info about S8G, etc.

Hope to see you there!

For the easily confused:

• Bungie Pro Video is going live on Bungie Day (7/7)
• It’s bundled with Bungie PRO
• All Bungie PRO members get 5 render minutes per month
• Monthly render minutes do NOT roll-over
• You should wait to buy Bungie PRO until on or after 7/7

Just a little longer until September 22nd and Halo 3: ODST's release.

Information on Bungie Day (July 7), the Halo: Reach demo invitation and how it relates with Halo 3: ODST is present, as well as clarification the Heretic, the Midship remake, is not a re-imagining, but a semi-pixel-perfect remake.  

They talk a lot about what they did at E3, and then go on to Bungie Day.

Bungie Day: 7 on the 7th (or Bungie vs the World, as it may end up being called) playlist will be a 4v4 match where you can potentially win Recon!!  It will be entirely Community-Made maps on Sandbox and Foundry maps that have never been seen on Matchmaking before.  No Bungie-made maps, but it is Mythic DLC Required.

Two ways to win:  Just by playing, you have a chance to win Recon armor, or a number or other prizes, such as Render Points.  If you play against the Bungie Team, which will be a group of 4 and will be playing for the entire 24 hour period, and defeat them, you will win Recon.

Be there, I will.

Some talk of Bungie Day (July 7th) is also present, along with a nice description and Q&A of another Firefight map, Crater (Night), of which there has been a remake of on Sandbox.

Finally, they end it with more info on Render-to-Video.

• Render-to-Video beta is being tweaked on Monday
• SAVE YOUR FILMS NOW – they’re going to be DELETED
• The beta is now open to all Bungie Pro subscribers
• More minutes are on the way

"As many of you know we have been working hard on a major update for the Spruz Social Platform that has been in the works for the past year. This update revolves around new levels of social interaction and brings our platform to a point where we can grow it to new levels of social website interaction. This update was designed to aid you in building a better social experience for your users. After months of research, design and development the day is almost here.

This update will be released in 2 phases. The first phase and the largest will be published to the Spruz Platform on Tuesday and will include the new member system. Phase 2 will be the addition of member or admin created member groups with group profiles. The Groups will have very similar capabilities as the member profiles. Phase 2 will be published anywhere from 7 to 10 days after Phase 1 and we will have more details announced later in the week.

To begin we want to highlight all new features and changes of Phase 1 part of this new update.

Website users will be able to enjoy;

• New Member Navigation Bar in the member profile area.
  • The member bar will allow the site member to quickly post status updates, view the profile, photos, friends pages with ease and allow for quick access to get back to their home page (Revamp of the account page).
  • All member options will be accessible from any page in the profile areas. Users can easily change profile options, display name, passwords and more.
• Complete revamp of the member account page.
  • Users will enjoy a full friend activity feed to keep them in tune with their friends on your website. The activity feed displays information directly related to member profiles. With the activity feed users will see new comments posted, status updates, photos added to the member photo gallery and more.
  • New Account summary where users can view friends, manage invites, groups and more.
  • Member status updates. Just like other networks you users can make quick 140 character posts about what they are doing right now. We have plans to also add functionality so that status updates can also be sent to their twitter page with links back to your website.
• Improved profile options!
  • We have added several major improvements to the security options for profiles.
  • Users can now set information about them that you can customize!
• Profile Page Improvements.
  • The profile page has been given a much cleaner look, improved drag and drop for elements and a quick add button for adding elements and widgets.
  • All profile elements have been revamped to go along with the changes to the way member images, commenting, blogging, and so on are handled.
  • New Widget Access, this really opens things up! Your users select from 1000's of widgets and with a click of a button easily added them to their profile page.
• New Photos Page, we have done away with the old way users would add image galleries to their profiles, it was slow and inefficient. The new photos page really opens things up to make it much easier to add photos and share them.
  • Now users can upload up to 10 images at a time and update the captions all at once.
  • We have carried over our commenting box to the photos page to allow feedback on images added by users.
  • We did not add ratings to images because we want to further promote your users to add more personal photos to your website without fear of rejection. The more things your users contribute the longer they will stay with you and bring their friends.
• Dedicated friends page to make it easier to manage and view all of your friends. As part of this member profile pic formatting with new quick access options.

We are within a couple of weeks of releasing our complete rewrite of our member profile system. This update has been running a little long for us due to the size and complexity of this update, there are also issues with handling of current member profiles and moving as much as possible over to the new profile/member system.

Here is a sample list of features that will be part of the new member system.

• Each website member profile page will be unique to the given website.
• Full admin moderation over profile comments, blogs, photos, etc.
• Widget Box Gallery integration
• Advanced website profile admin settings for using your own custom naming scheme for member friends, setting the default profile pic, custom member status settings, using your own Widget Box gallery account and much more!
• Member or Admin Created Groups with full group profiles just like new member profiles!
• Member Activity Feed and status updates
• Customizable profile default elements and layout (Upgrade Only Feature).
• Improvements to member privacy settings
• Addition of setting the default viewing level for all profiles to make profiles viewing for members only on up. By default all profiles are public unless set other wise by the member. (Upgrade only Feature)

As part of this we have been updating other systems that tie into this update with some improvements as well.

New improvement added recently!

We have released an update to the deleting of site members. Now when a member is deleted it should delete all posts, content, etc that was added by that member to your website. For upgraded websites you can now ban them from joining again. This way once a member is deleted they will not be able to re-join the website easily. Plus, once the full member update is released when you delete a member it will also remove their profile, remove them from people that have added them as a friend and all files they have uploaded to their profile on your website.

I hope everyone is looking forward to this update as much as we are. This will be the biggest single release and change to the platform in almost 1 year.

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