http://www.theclenchedfist.com/ The Clenched Fist en-us May 11th through the 13th, the Marketplace will be having a Mother's Day sale. The modern holiday was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother in the US. She then began a campaign to make "Mother's Day" a recognized holiday in the US. Although she was successful in 1914, she was already disappointed with its commercialization by the 1920s. Jarvis' holiday was adopted by other countries and it's now celebrated all over the world. http://www.theclenchedfist.com/News/article/sid=175.html Uh... some sort of sale, on some sort of superstitious day. Every month that begins on a Sunday will contain a Friday the 13th, and there is at least one Friday the 13th in every calendar year. The longest period that can occur without a Friday the 13th is fourteen months, either from July to September the following common year (e.g. between 2001–02, 2012–13, and 2018–19), or from August to October the following leap year (e.g. between 1999–2000 or 2027–28). http://www.theclenchedfist.com/News/article/sid=174.html Sony will cut about 10,000 jobs, which equates to about six percent of its global workforce, by the end of the year. The move comes after the Tokyo-based electronics firm more than doubled its loss forecast on April 5 to $2.9 billion, and the recent hiring of a new CEO, Kazuo Hirai, on April 1. Hirai looks to downsize Sony and pivot the company in a new direction to get out of the red for the first time in four years. The company will reportedly sell off its chemical products division, cutting about 3,000 workers in the process, and also make cuts within its small and midsize LCD operations. Sony did not say if it would cut these jobs in Japan, abroad, or both. http://www.theclenchedfist.com/News/article/sid=173.html Spring Special! Get two times the SC when you buy Station Cash® between April 6th 12:01 AM PDT and April 8th 11:59 PM PDT! Excludes purchases of Station Cash by SMS. http://www.theclenchedfist.com/News/article/sid=172.html Starting at 12:01 pm Pacific (Noon) on Friday, April 6, 2012 and lasting until 11:59 pm Pacific on Sunday, April 8, 2012 we’ll offer Double Experience in EverQuest II! Take advantage of these three days and watch those XP bars fill up! http://www.theclenchedfist.com/News/article/sid=171.html Microsoft's Building Windows Twitter account, @BuildWindows8 reports today that: Quote:: One day later...one million downloads of the consumer preview Even if that's not a million individuals each running Windows 8, that's an impressive accomplishment. By comparison, the Developer Preview received more than 3 million downloads while that program was in effect. The Windows 8 Consumer Preview is available for download at preview.windows.com. http://www.theclenchedfist.com/News/article/sid=170.html While Y.T. had some early secret squirrel information, it's time to take the wraps fully off. Dethdlr and Feldon, of EQ2Wire, and extremely worthy blog focused on the EQ2 game and community, has developed a new website built on the remarkable new REST EQ2 Data Feeds API. As a guest, you get all the functionality of the original EQ2Players site such as searching for Characters, Guilds, Items, and Spells in EverQuest II. Although they hint that this is just the start. I highly recommend folks check it out, it's a very nice piece of work, and I want to congratulate them on the new site! http://www.theclenchedfist.com/News/article/sid=169.html Microsoft today sent out invites for a February 29th Mobile World Congress event that will see the launch of its Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Details are still scarce, but the expectation is that day the Consumer Preview will be available for download, surplanting the currently-available Developer Preview, and demonstrating a more feature-complete beta of the new operating system slated for release in October of this year. http://www.theclenchedfist.com/News/article/sid=168.html I wanted to take this opportunity to wish the Guild, as well as our guests and visitors, the very best of times during this holiday season. It's been a very... challenging year. Everyone has experienced a lot of trials and difficulties in our lives, but we made it through largely intact (perhaps losing an internal organ or two along the way). Nevertheless, there is much to look back upon favorably. This year marks another successful production run of the Laughlin Cookie Factory, for which we're very grateful. Also, another Fain Faire with a big turnout from the Clenched Fist, providing one of those rare opportunities for the Guild to meet in person, some for the first time ever. Good times... I'm looking forward to another year with the Clenched Fist, to continue to add members to the guild and build our extended family. I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday time, hopefully with family and friends and fun. Merry Christmas, everyone! -Toukai http://www.theclenchedfist.com/News/article/sid=167.html The 2011 SOE campaign for the Child's Play Charity has begun! SOE is proud to sponsor the Child's Play Charity and here's how you can help! Purchase special Child's Play items from participating games in December and SOE will donate $10 per item up to a maximum of US $50,000 to Child's Play. Child's Play seeks to improve the lives of children in hospitals around the world through the kindness and generosity of the video game industry and the power of play. This is a great charity, and I highly recommend you take the opportunity to put a dent in Sony's cold corporate heart and have them put some of those misplaced profits towards a very, very worthy cause. http://www.theclenchedfist.com/News/article/sid=166.html