Hails and felicitations, greetings and gastrations, O each and every of ye fine persons. It doth be time for a weekly update.

Here are a few more screenshots from my upcoming movie, finished, polished and looking as snazzy as a murloc in a Roman helmet:

Fantastic fan art this week from our very fine fans:

• By Sahira

• Cool Guys Don’t Look at Explosions by Linus Harstedt

• Happy 52nd Episode by Kyande

• Staghorn for President by Herbert

My birthday is this coming Monday and I’ll be out of town on vacation, so next week’s update will be on Tuesday. Oh, did I just mention my birthday and link to my wishlist on Amazon? Dang, my bad. How terribly un-classy of me. To link to my wishlist on Amazon. So un-classy.

Last week’s episode of Scotch & Smoke Rings was the best ever, breaking our all-time viewership record–over 300 live viewers! Thanks so much for attending folks! Here is the episode:

I went through all my YouTube videos and fixed the aspect ratio of many of them. For the longest time, YouTube had a hard time interpreting widescreen from uploaded files. Now its fixed, and my YouTube fans can watch Oxhorn videos in widescreen!

I reached a few milestones recently: 300+ weekly live viewers of my show, 92,000+ subscribers and 43+ million views on YouTube, and 6,200+ fans on Facebook–wow! Thanks everyone for making this site and my movies possible. After all, no viewers = no new movies.

I’m administrating a few new contests over at YayZee.com for our game Expedition Egypt. The first player to get 200 crewmembers gets 100 Expedition Credits (details) and I’m also running a fan art/fan photo contest with a prize of 50 Expedition Credits (details). Head on over and participate! I’d love to see what you come up with.

That’s all for now, chat with me on the forum and I’ll see you Thursday for Episode 53!

Oh, and Oxhorn’s Wishlist.

-Ox

Good Monday to ye! I’ll be going to a casual gaming conference for the better part of the week so I’m not sure how much I’ll get done on the new video, but here are the teaser screenshots I promised. These are really rough at the moment; I haven’t fine-tuned them (they come from a dialogue scene so don’t expect a lot of action, heh):

Some great fan art this week:

• By William Torresson

• By Cardibar of Kalimdor

• By Bigstackstwo

We had over 200 people at last week’s show—wow! Thanks for showing up all!

• Scotch & Smoke Rings Episode 51

I took the guild out to Molten Core last week to kill Ragnaros. We totally didn’t wipe once. Totally.

• Invisible Pink Unicorns Raid MC

That’s it for now, short and sweet. See you Thursday!

-Ox

It is Monday,
a fine day for updating
and really bad haiku.

Remember when Mortuus was added to Wrath of the Lich King? Well Blizzard has done it again! Mortuus has been added in Cataclysm as well, known as “Grand Executor Mortuus”. I’ve updated his character page with screenhots. They’re here too:

(Thanks to the many fans who sent in these images!)

I’ve released a trailer for Scotch & Smoke Rings, highlighting some of the best bits from the last few shows. I’ll be publishing this on YouTube on Thursday and I’ll be putting together a “highlights” video for every week from here on out.

Some SICK fan art this week from Laura Duggan—thanks Laura!

• By Laura Duggan

Many innumerable website tweaks have been done this week, including a now fixed image gallery (no more random gaps—yay!). I’ve added many new characters to the website, listed below:

• The Hordeshop Quartet
• University Committee
• Whalers
• WoW Game Masters

I forgot to mention this last week, but you can now browse through a gallery of previous episodes of Scotch & Smoke Rings in a nice, handsome thumbnail gallery. See it here:

• Show Archives

Last week’s show had its own brand of timeless epicness, which you can watch here:

• Scotch & Smoke Rings Episode 50

That’s all for now! Time to knock this movie out. Expect screenshots next week!

-Ox

Many fantabulations all ye and every persons of some importance! I have here in my satchel a meaty update of bbq proportions.

First! I’m administrating a new contest for YayZee called “design an epic item” for our game, Expedition Egypt. The contest starts today and will last two weeks. Whoever comes up with the best idea for a new epic item wins! The winner will get a copy of his epic item and it will be branded with his name, forever marking his epicness. Click here for the full contest details:

• Design an Epic Item Expedition Contest

Second! A Cataclysm poll. Which race will you roll in Cataclysm?

Third! Site updates. I’ve added a few new characters to the Characters page. Check them out and be sure to “like” them:

• Crusher, Butcher & Gusher
• Self-Important Engineers
• The Invisible Pink Unicorn

I also added a new “CAPTCHA” system for posting on pages to try and cut down on spam. Please test it out for me by posting a comment on this update or on any other page. If you run into an error, let me know on the forums or via the contact form. Thanks, you rockz0rz.

I also made many new forum tweaks to make it sexier, including a new Leaderboard! That’s right. Now you can compete with each other to see who is truly the biggest Oxhorn aficionado. You can rise the Leaderboard by commenting on posts and pages, making new forum threads and commenting in the forum. See who is winning!

• Leaderboard

To celebrate the new forum changes, I’ve written a “best practices” guide for being truly epic at oxhorn.com in a l33t sort of way:

• Best Forum Practices

Fourth! Last week’s show, which might I say was in its own way superlative to previous shows in a pecany sort of sweet way:

• Scotch & Smoke Rings Episode 49

That’s all for now! Like stuff, comment on stuff, tweet stuff, post in the forum and keep being rather splendid.

-Ox

Detailed Updates:

• “Subscribe to topic” added to forum
• Facebook “like” added to forum
• “PM”s (private messages) reintroduced to forum
• “Proofread” function added to forum response text boxes
• New sexy tag cloud on forum footer
• Images have been resized to fit forum width and a slick black view box appears upon click
• Leaderboard added
• Bible verses automatically link to biblegateway.com for easy lookup on forum
• “Members online” issue fixed. Now computes time correctly
• Forum spam security measures implemented
• Additional site-wide anti-spam measures taken, including CAPTCHA
• Site subdirectories have been secured from unwanted access
• Russian registry spam now compared with a blacklist. Prevents fake registration
• Oxhorn gained level 85 in web development. Achievement earned: “WordPress Master”

Happy Monday, and it is truly a Monday of significance! For I, your neighborhood friendly Oxhorn have… done site maintenance all week. Woot.

I’ve made so many “under-the-hood” changes that it would be boring to talk about them all, but you can see a list of them at the end of this update.

One new major feature is my Facebook integration! You can now login to oxhorn.com using your Facebook information, and when you post comments your Facebook profile picture will be your avatar. You can also “like” pages on Facebook—try it out!

Also, try out my new Random Button, to the left. It will take you to a random page of Oxhorn goodness, ready to be liked and tweeted.

I made a number of changes to make the site run much faster. I’d like to know how it is running for you. Use this poll:

Fan Art this week!

• Oxhorn Ransom by xTempest

My two albums are now available in a hard CD format! You can snag them here at Amazon.com:

• Oxhorn Brand Music CD
• Oxhorn’s Christmas for Geeks CD

I did an interview with the fellows over at Walk Along Gaming, which you can listen to here:

• Oxhorn Interview

Last week’s Scotch & Smoke Rings was a blast, and it was my first episode wearing no eyewear whatsoever. Do I look strange?

• Scotch & Smoke Rings Epi. 48

I’ve made some major changes to my blog. It is now called “Blogging with Class” and it has a brand new theme. I am still making tweaks to it, but you can head on over and see what I have so far. To browse my articles and essays, use the category navigation to the right.

• Blogging with Class

That’s it for now! I am, as always, working hard on the new movie. Expect some screenshots next week!

Detailed updates:

• Major site tweaks to the database. Website should run much faster.
• Most site images have been “squished” to make them smaller. Does not effect the galleries yet.
• New random button. Click it and appear at any random page on this site; characters, movies, etc.
• New social links. The Dandy.id list is, thankfully, gone forever.
• Facebook integration. Login with your Facebook account and post comments with your Facebook avatar.
• New activity stream showing what other Facebook users have done on the site.
• All broken links have been fixed.
• Music pages have been redone to look better.
• New forum made for my guild, Invisible Pink Unicorns.
• New retweet feature. For Twitter users, tweet any page using the tag at the end of posts and the number of tweets listed will update.
• New link to my iTunes podcast added to the rotating ad banner.
• Stronger spam protection.

• Hax by Scorpio Maxwell

• Bacon Monster by Direbulge

• Scotch & Smoke Rings Episode 47

Here’s hoping your Monday is as fine as a stack of syrupy pancakes covered in cake frosting and drenched with gravy. Wrapped in bacon.

Check it out! I added a nifty little rotating banner of “Ox-ish Stuff” to the left. I know, I know, it is exciting, calm down.

I have one new screenshot for you from my upcoming movie. It isn’t finished (I didn’t have a chance to work on color correction) but I’d hate to leave you hangin’:

Two new great pieces of Fan Art. Thanks fellows! Want to submit your own? Use this form.

• ISW6 by Bigstackstwo (Is this a hint?)

• As Eyeless as a Murloc by Halferreus

We’re still recruiting! With almost 100 members in just a short time, The Invisible Pink Unicorns is set to become the largest guild on Silver Hand. Join us and pester me! Send Kyande or anyone else in-game a request.

• The Invisible Pink Unicorns, Silver Hand, Horde Guild

Check out last week’s show, which was even more splendiferous than usual:

• Scotch & Smoke Rings Episode 46

We released a new version of our Facebook game last week. Check out Expedition Egypt to see what has changed!

That’s all for now!

-Ox

With North Korea going crazy, more trouble in the Middle East and a volcano of oil spilling into the Gulf, you can still rest easy knowing that you have the Oxhorn weekly update.

A friend and I started a new guild on Silver Hand, and all my fans are invited. Wanna dink around on Silver Hand and get very little accomplished? Then join The Invisible Pink Unicorns! Here is our new guild website:

• The Invisible Pink Unicorns – Silver Hand, Horde Guild

Fan Art!

• Ban Hammer 2.0 by Ryan

• Invasion by Linus Harstedt

• Oxhorn by Halferreus

Weekly Show!

• Scotch & Smoke Rings Episode 45

More goodies next week!

-Ox

I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend! I know I did!

Now I made a lot of progress on the movie last week, but it was one of those scenes that had a lot of talking and not a lot of action, so the screenshots aren’t particularly fascinating. I’ll give you one towards the end of the scene though:

Last week’s show was quite fantastic, and you can watch it here:

• Scotch & Smoke Rings Episode 44

I had a number of fan art submissions from folks who didn’t know how to send me the image. Just upload an image to your favorite image hosting service like imageshack or flickr and send me the link using this contact form:

• Oxhorn’s Contact Form

We just did some fine-tuning on Expedition. It now runs much quicker, and we fixed a number of graphical issues for people playing in Internet Explorer. Check out the game here:

• Expedition Egypt on Facebook

And leave us a review here:

• Review Expedition

That’s it for now, see you Thursday for the live show!

Whew, what a weekend! It was so eventful that I plum forgot to do this week’s update. So I’ll do it live! I’LL DO IT LIVE!!

Let’s start with fan art. As usual we have some awesome stuff from Linus Harstedt, who is showing off his great editorial skills, as well as some accidental banhammer jokes for those who attend my show:

• Banhammer by Soaros21

• Tauren vs. Elves Menu by Linus Harstedt

• Tauren vs. Elves Gameplay by Linus Harstedt

We have a fan video! This one was discovered by Zach on Facebook who thought that the author was a, quote, “total n00b”. It is entitled “Oxhorn Sucks” and, I must say, I haven’t laughed so hard in a very long time. WARNING, it has some rather harsh language.

• Oxhorn Sucks (WARNING LANGUAGE)

I giggled.

Lastly, here is this week’s show, which has updates on my movie progress and a great review of a new cigar:

• Scotch & Smoke Rings Episode 43