NEW!
Nitgo is celebrating his 1000 subscriber milestone and hosting a Skin Contest titled Evil Technology. In this skin contest, your goal is to create a skin of whatever you want as long as it's connected to technology. You'll receive extra points if it's evil! No HD skins are allowed in this contest and skins must be new and made specifically for it. Check out the super cool trophies up for grabs:

In this skin contest, Alien Creatures, WhatToMake is challenging you to draw them a sketch/skin line on the theme of alien creatures. You can't do anything off topic, and you must use a player skin [No mob skins allowed].

Chaotic Stupid is celebrating their 450 Subscriber milestone and hosting a reshade contest called "CAUTION: Falling in Love". Make sure you keep the character recognizable, though you don't have to make the skin look exactly like the original and you can give them a makeover if you would like. You must tag your entry with Caution450.

Participants receive trophies. Top three receive trophies as well as additional prizes! Check out the contest page for more information.

This creepy creature titled Orion Cortexian was created by SolarSimonDM. Using the enderman mob model, the alien-like creature features some serious details including what appears to be a mollusk-like head, long spiral arms that might be considered tentacles, and a round, short torso.

"In the uncharted depths of the Krogon Sector, over seven quadrillion alien species thrive and evolve constantly to survive and overcome all others, with the creatures possessing the "Orion" genus being one of the most noteworthy. Even though the Cortexians didn't evolve with beastly teeth and a towering scale like the Orion Leviathans, they show some promising cognitive abilities that exceed the ones of the homo-sapiens. What they lack in brute strength and force, they make up for with the ability to see into the near future, making them a dangerous foe to the other forms of life in the universe."

Simon did an excellent job with the creepiness and mysteriousness of this HD Skin! Be sure to check out all of SolarSimon's submissions for more magnificent mobs and more.

xalixilax gave the vanilla diamond a seriously shiney makeover with their pack xali's Enhanced Diamond texture pack. Using colors that are closer to the IRL diamond these new diamonds sparkly even in the darkest of days.

Xali also retextured diamond items, blocks and armor to give them a more unique look. We love how the weapons look with this pack!

If you like this, Xali has several more popular packs including Enchanted Books, which changes the look of the books depending on their enchantment!

INTERVIEWS
There is no official Interview this week, however, there were a few member ones submitted to the blog section this week!