For the launch of Kinect, Microsoft has put on the full-court press for the motion sensing device in all forms of advertising. Check out this trailer, detailing overly happy people using Kinect to interact over Xbox Live.
Kevin Butler is continuing his stay in the McGuire house, this time focusing on Tiger Woods ’11. The VP of Family Showdowns shows that the competition is getting heated.
The children’s rhyme Ring Around the Rosie dates back to the Middle Ages and ties into the plague. It seems appropriate then for the next attack of the Necromorphs in Dead Space 2.
Dr Pepper has announced the release of Dr Pepper Football with the help of Electronic Arts. The game can be unlocked via a special promotion code on specially marked Dr Pepper 14-oz, 16-oz, 20-oz and 21-oz bottles and fountain cups throughout the college football season.
“Dr Pepper is a longtime supporter of college football, and now we’re giving our fans a chance to get in the game,” said Dave Fleming, director of marketing for Dr Pepper. “There has always been a battle between consumers over which tastes better, Dr Pepper or Diet Dr Pepper, and now fans can settle that dispute on the field.”
“EA is excited to partner with a forward-leaning marketer like Dr Pepper who is developing compelling new content for our consumers,” said Elizabeth Harz, EA’s Senior Vice President of EA’s Global Media Sales. “Dr Pepper Football is yet another way to build brand affinity by creating a meaningful interactive experience for fans of EA and Dr Pepper.”
Electronic Arts announced a deal with Paramount Digital Entertainment for Rango The Video Game. The game will be based around the upcoming animated film starring the voice of Johnny Depp.
We are thrilled to be working with Paramount and the upcoming release of the video game version of its first animated feature, said Sinjin Bain, Vice President of EA Partners at Electronic Arts. Rango is a one-of-a-kind character that we know kids will love. We re excited to give families worldwide the opportunity to take the humor and fun from the big screen into their living rooms.
Inspired by the movie, Rango The Video Game will focus on the town of Dirt, with wild rides, off-color characters and frantic shoot-outs. Both the movie and the game will release in March 2011 for PS3, DS, Wii and Xbox 360.
We are pleased to team up with EA to deliver an exciting, action-packed adventure game that captures the spirit of the film and puts the fate of Dirt in players hands, said Tom Lesinski, President of Paramount Digital Entertainment. We’ve added exciting twists and turns in the video game that will challenge players of all levels on their adventures as Rango.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently made an interesting comment on the iPad. When asked about a Facebook app native to the iPad, he responded, “The iPad’s not mobile . . . it’s a computer.”
Perhaps realizing the implications of what he just said, he clarified that he wasn’t trying to insult Apple. “We all love Apple products,” he clarified. [The iPad just] isn’t mobile in the same way.”
Source: Engadget
Zynga has announced at Facebook s mobile event that they will be launching their games on Android phones. The leading Facebook company’s first Android game will be Live Poker.
The social game publisher is already supporting various iOS devices, and they launched FarmVille for the iPhone earlier this year. Live Poker will take advantage of the single sign-on feature of Facebook mobile, where users are automatically signed into their apps when they sign up for Facebook.
Source: VentureBeat
The Wii Vitality Sensor was first unveiled at E3 2009, promising to sense a user’s pulse and other signals for use in games. Since then, Nintendo has been fairly mum on the device and Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata wasn’t exactly forthcoming about it when asked at a recent investors meeting about big Wii titles.
“Of course, we want to release original titles, but in order to release new games, we must continue developing them,” said Iwata, who noted that they company aims to balance games that are “interesting” and “easy to understand.
While Nintendo has trademarked Wii Relax in the U.S., they’re keeping their plans for the Wii Vitality Sensor close to their chest.
Source: Kotaku
Art deco was a pervasive art-form in the 1930s and ’40s, cropping up in architecture and advertising. BioShock used that modernist art style to great effect, but what about other games
Crazy Taxi
F-Zero
Half-Life 2
Mario Kart
Blaster Master
Mass Effect 2
Twisted Metal
Halo
Source: IGN
