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Daniel Deathcaster May 17, 2013

Spring is here and so are some great new looking mounts which have just arrived to the Spiral including new wings, and some new tigers as well.

Three new mounts have been released to the crown shop. The first are the mechanical wings. Secondly, we have the orange Sabertooth tiger, and lastly we have an alteration of the Sabertooth, which is the Frostfang tiger. Make sure to add these to your mount collection, and we look forward to seeing you on your new mounts around the Spiral.

New Mounts in the Crown Shop

Daniel Deathcaster June 1, 2013

With summer coming, and wizards spending a lot more time in the Spiral, many new bundles and musical surprises have arrived as well.

Now available are three brand new bundles, that will feature a new house, a new mount, new gear, new pets, and much more for all of us to enjoy. Make sure to check out the pre-paid cards page on Wizard101.com, for all the bundles available including the new ones.

New bundles aren't the only things that's new, along with the Pet-a-Palooza which gives discounts of select pets, and a free pet snack every day through June 7th (which can be accessed here at the main Pet-a-Palooza page) we also have new exciting updates coming to the Spiral that is already in Test Realm.

As you'll see in the June Newsletter, new playable music

instruments will be able to be purchased by wizards,

and will have the ability to place the furniture item in

their house and actually play them. With all this going on,

Wizards should be quite busy for coming weeks. As for us

here at Spiral Creations, we are going try to get Episode 3

out for 'New Student' as well as have our first monthly

newsletter sent out this July. If you'd like to subscribe to

getting a newsletter, please go to our home page and scroll

down till you see a button that says "Subscribe to our

newsletter."

June's Many New Wizarding Surprises

Daniel Deathcaster June 19, 2013

Spiral Creations has released another episode of 'New Student' and Kingsisle has released their latest updates that are now on the live realm.

Tournaments have come to the Spiral, for all you PvP players, get your skills up to par and take part in these tournaments that will test your skills against others in an ordered tournament style competition. And what's not a competition without prizes? Yes there are prizes, and they could be yours. Musical instruments have also been now added and can be purhcased from the crown shop with crowns or gold.

As for Spiral Creations, we have now official released 'New Student' episode three, and we are avidly working on 'Dark Tidings'. You may have also seen our new team additions, so if you see them around the Spiral or on Facebook, make sure to stop by and say 'Hi' to our new staff members.

'New Student' Episode 3 & Tournaments

Daniel Deathcaster July 6, 2013

A new episode of 'New Student', a new Director's Corner, and a new logo along with some news on 'Dark Tidings' await you. Read on!

We hope you've all had a great independence day for all of our American fans, because we here at Spiral Creations had a great 4th of July as we finished up filming 'Dark Tidings'. This week's been busy here at the studio as we've released a new Director's Corner, where I tell you all about all the new updates coming to Spiral Creations, as well as a new episode of 'New Student'. Along with the release of these productions we've also completed filming on 'Dark Tidings' and are now going over editing, special effects and voice acting. As stated in the Director's Corner, we're looking at a release date somewhere in August at the earliest.

For those of you who have been following our Facebook page, we've now gone over 1,000 likes, and with this milestone, one of our newest cast members Brian Silverhorn and one of his friends Anna Daisyheart have designed a new logo for Spiral Creations which won 66% of the nearly 200 votes that were cast on the poll on our Facebook page. This new logo can now be seen on our Facebook page, YouTube channel, here on the site, and on Twitter. We've also released our first newsletter this month on the 1st of July, and all of you who had signed up for one got a free Wizard101 code, so congrats to you. If you haven't signed up for the newsletter, make sure you do so on our homepage at the bottom as August's newsletter will be coming on he first day of the month.

Thank you for following our productions and stay tuned for more updates, films, episodes, and contests to come.

'New Student' Episode 4 & A New Logo

Daniel Deathcaster July 26, 2013

Aftter 7 months of production, 'Dark Tidings' has finally released it's official trailer. If you haven't seen the official trailer already, watch it in this news update at the bottom. We're looking at a release date of August 2, 2013. How successful that release date will be is yet to be known. We are working as dilligently as we can to have this film edited. Stay tuned for more updates.

August's newsletter will also be released on August 1, 2013, so make sure to go to our homepage and sign up for this month's newsletter. You may just get another prize, who knows. To sign up, scroll down on the homepage and click the 'subscribe to our newsletter' button.

Lastly, I wanted to quickly touch on the Wizard Spoofs. Every Monday and Thursday (on the weeks where nothing major is being released), Spiral Creations is bringing you YouTube spoofs that have been "wizardized". Make sure to check back every week to see which spoofs have been released. Right now we're working on 'Dark Tidings' so there won't be another till after the release of 'Dark Tidings'. If you haven't seen the spoofs, see them here.

If you also haven't checked out the updates on the new world coming to the Spiral, make sure to check the Wizard101 site and forums. Till next time!

'Dark Tidings' Coming This August

Daniel Deathcaster August 9, 2013

After half a year of production, the moment we've all been waiting for has fnally come, the release of 'Dark Tidings'. This is the first full feature film of Wizard101 that has voice acting, which is what makes it even more of an accomplishment. The ffilm also features excellent special effects, and an outstanding story based off of the novel The Hobbit.

The film can now be seen on YouTube here. You can also watch it below. We also have our official Facebook page for the film also set up, so make sure to give us a like as well. You can like this film as well as our other films be going to our 'Films' page. We've already gotten lots of positive feedback from fans, as everyone was excited last night with minutes to spare before midnight waiting for the release of the film. We are glad you enjoyed the film, and hope you enjoy it for those of you who haven't watched it yet.

'Dark Tidings' Has Been Released

Daniel Deathcaster August 30, 2013

Episode 5 of 'New Student' has been released, Wizard101 has just turned 5, and The Spiral Newspaper is one of our newest affiliates!

As you've read and maybe already seen, we have released episode 5 of 'New Student'. If you haven't seen it already, check it out below, and for all the other episodes head on over to our 'Films' page and click the link to watch the other episodes as well. They are a fan favorite!

Wizard101 has also turned 5, and with it's release of Acquila, we have a great new mount released, some new hairstyles and free itmes. That's right free items! Check out this page here to learn more about Wizard101's 5th birthday party giveaways. And with Wizard101 turning 5, we're sure many of you have heard rumors about the new world already that was leaked apparently a week ago because of a quest issue with the death teacher. Read the Producer's Letter to learn more about the exciting changes coming this September.

We also have a contest currently for free teleport tapestries for your house in Wizard101 on Facebook. Check out the contest on our official Facebook page and see the status about the contest just by scrolling down a bit, it's an easy contest if you watched 'Dark Tidings'.

Speaking of 'Dark Tidings', will there be a second part of the film? You bet, and our team is working on it right now already. To get more sneak peaks about the film, please subscribe to our newsletter by going to the homepage and scrolling down and clicking the 'subscribe to our newsletter' button, because September's newsletter is being sent on September 1, 2013! For now, see the pictures below. Our set designer, Amanda Deathcaster has been doing her homework around the Spiral. The pictures you'll see are picture of the Dark Wizards' secret hideout.

Lastly, we'd like to thank our new affiliates, the Spiral Newspaper, for featuring our film 'Dark Tidings' in their latest issue of the Spiral Newspaper. To see the issue you can either view their official website, or read it and leave some feedback on their posting of the newsletter on Wizard101 Central. They have many more issues to come so leave them some feedback while you're at it.

The Spiral Newspaper & W101's Birthday