The HSM Halloween Special — Trick and Treat and Tweet
by NorseGamer, HSM Editor-in-Chief
By now, you’ve probably had a chance to read the avalanche of fictitious Halloween stories we just posted to the HSM website. This is a project the HomeStation team has been working on for a while now, and I think they’ve done an absolutely brilliant job in putting it all together and keeping it under wraps.
Halloween is perhaps the most “Home” of any major holidays, isn’t it? It’s the one opportunity you get, as an adult, to dress up like something truly out of this world and interact with other people who have done the same thing. It’s fun. As adults, we don’t have that much opportunity to play; the world frowns on such things. Perhaps, indeed, that’s the great lure of Home, and virtual realities in general: we get to play.
In the year that it’s been operational, HSM has built a reputation for mature and literate journalism devoted to Home. We tackle heavy social issues. We discuss ideas. We push ourselves to be one of the most polished and professional sources of Home media out there. We take pride in what we try to give back to the community.
Which means that, from time to time, we loosen our neckties and play.
The Halloween Special allows us to bring you fanciful stories that our team cooked up for fun. Hopefully you get as much of a kick out of reading them as we had discussing them at our production meetings! So, we decided to throw in a little extra gift: we’ve hidden two parts of a redemption code for a ten-dollar PSN card somewhere in two different Halloween Special articles!
And the third part of the code? At some point, on 10/31/11, between 6PM and 9PM Pacific Time, the final part of the code will be broadcast on our Twitter feed. It’s a single-use code, so whomever inputs it first wins ten bucks!
Stay safe on Halloween, come home with lots of candy, and let us know what you thought of our little avalanche of stories. Long live play!
October 31st, 2011 by NorseGamer | 2 comments
NorseGamer is the product manager for LOOT Entertainment at Sony Pictures, as well as the founder and publisher of HomeStation Magazine. Born and raised in Silicon Valley, he holds a B.A. in English/Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and presently lives in Los Angeles. All opinions expressed in HSM are solely his and do not necessarily reflect the views of Sony DADC.
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I just wanted to say happy Halloween to all my fellow home residents, and thank the HSM team for all their great coverage.
The fictitious article idea was just pure genius!
A great celebration of creative imagination..