The Electric Company Is Looking For New Members!

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This month on PBS Kids Go!, the Prankster Planet initiative begins at the end of each full Electric Company TV episode. 12 multi-level online quests, 60 mini-games, an avatar creator, rewards system and a magazine will live in a new area on the show s website. A progress tracker will launch this summer that will allow parents and teachers to follow kids learning status. Electric Company members Jessica and Marcus appear at the end of each episode as comic book heroes and discover that pranksters are sucking up all the words on earth. They enlist the help of fans to end this total word domination. Each animated episode ends in a cliffhanger that offers a direct hand-off from story to the transmedia game. When a player completes all 12 online missions, he or she becomes an official member of The Electric Company. The Lost Guide to Prankster Planet magazine will round off the experience by extending the math concepts and vocabulary featured online and in the animated TV segments. The magazine, distributed to PBS and other Electric Company partners, contains secret Prankster Planet information the reader can use to collect hidden words. The Adventures of The Electric Company on Prankster Planet will air starting May 2 with the online component going live the same day.

Ready… Set… TWEEEEEEEEEEET!!!!!

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Tweeters, start your engines! Starting now until the launch of Fast Five on April 29, fans can compete in one of nine Twitter races. Participants will have a chance to win awesome prizes like IMAX tickets to see the film and cash cards. Start by following @FastFurious on Twitter to know when it s time to get to the starting line and when the post time begins. Fans must first qualify by responding to the #F5READY or #F5SET tweets from this account. A trivia question will be tweeted and fans must answer with the #F5GO tweet correctly to complete each race for a chance to win $50. Five randomly selected participants in each race will also win a pair of tickets to see Fast Five in IMAX.

See African Cats And Help Save The Savanna

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Pledge to save the Savanna at the official website for Disney’s African Cats or on the Disneynature Facebook page by clicking on the Save the Savanna app. Fans are directed to an official portal destination at eventful.com and prompted to buy a ticket opening weekend to see the film. Each fan that buys a ticket will also be making a pledge to help save the homeland of animals that occupy and need this large open space for hunting with a plentiful supply of prey, trees, shelter and protected areas among rocks and shrubs to raise their young. With each ticket purchase of a ticket before April 28, Disneynature will make a donation of $0.20 per ticket (with a minimum of $100,000 pledged to this program) to the African Wildlife Foundation for the Amboseli ecosystem stretches between Mt. Kilimanjaro, Chyulu Hills and Tsavo West National Parks in Kenya. At press time, 346,140 people have already made the pledge and 11,561 acres of land have been preserved.

Join S.H.I.E.L.D. And Become An Elite Agent

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Making its viral debut at C2E2, a comic and entertainment event held in Chicago, JoinShield.com {link no longer active} is a destination website experience that allows users to login, create a profile and become an agent of the ultra-elite global security taskforce S.H.I.E.L.D. In a partnership with Acura, each new recruit of S.H.I.E.L.D. must choose a specially modified weapon and a modified Acura car as their preferred means of travel. Each of the three cars featured (TL, MDX, ZDX) all include a specifications video showing off each car in action. Each new agent is given a dossier of videos, images and information to analyze to complete a task to gain greater security clearance. Completion of simple engagements not only result in a higher rank but unlock access to more classified images, videos, and documents and tasks to complete. After each engagement, an Acura ad will appear reigniting the campaign. Tasks include pinpointing a disturbance, testing avoidance skills, lock picking and testing your lie detecting skills.

Join Madea’s Big Happy Family!

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On the official Facebook fan hub for the latest installment in Tyler Perry’s epic Madea series, fans can join the family and take their rightful seat at the table alongside the cast from the film. Access the Join Madea’s Family app to upload an image of yourself and insert yourself as a character in the film. Fans first must choose the character that they want to replace (is it Ben Calvin The Browns ) and then upload and image from Facebook or their computer to replace their face. Fans are given a set of tools to scale and rotate the image to create a realistic composite. The image is a neatly compiled image of each family member in light blue boxes resembling the poster for the film which is based on the classic Brady Bunch design. Individuals can share themselves as part of Madea’s family to friends and followers on Facebook, Twitter and beyond.

Dance Central Wants You To Step It Up

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Fans of Dance Central on Facebook can access the Step It Up app {app no longer active} and record and upload a video of your Dance Central routine to be eligible to become the Dance Central King or Queen! Fans can vote or like their favorite video entry and vote as often as they d like. Winners will be eligible to win a trip to show off their style alongside a celebrity in a Dance Central dance-off and win $500 cash and prizes including an Xbox 360, Kinect and more!

Who Has Your Back In SOCOM 4?

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On the official Facebook page for the game, the SOCOM 4 Teammate Finder {link no longer active} allows fans to build a firefight team from their friends on Facebook. The experience begins by asking the user a series of questions about what they look for in a teammate (loyalty or self-reliance ) and multiple choice answers to determine what they would do if they were lost somewhere in a southeast Asian jungle. Once the questions are answered, the user s Facebook profile pic becomes the Team Leader image and four friends are chosen to fill the role of sharp shooter, demo and infantry, recon and close combat. Teammates are chosen based on number of posts and photos that they have on Facebook to determine their team role. Fans can show off their chosen team on their wall or post to a friend s wall that they have been chosen to be part of their team. Users can also watch a trailer of the game or send an application to a friend to also look for their own team.

Play Angry Birds Rio Now!

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Rio is here and #1 at the box office! And if you haven t been one of the 10 million plus people that have already downloaded the Angry Birds Rio for your mobile phone, check out an official website destination or the official Facebook page {link no longer active} for the film to access links to both the iTunes App store {link no longer active} and Amazon Android marketplace. Download now and launch some angry birds across two chapters with 30 new levels inspired by the story of the film. Launch some angry birds to rescue caged exotic birds and attack evil marmosets. After you ve gotten three stars on all levels, don t worry because more is on the way with additional level updates in 2011 slated for May, July, October and November.

Portal 2 Now Available…Thank You Potato Sack Players!

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Starting on April 1, Valve released The Potato Sack {link no longer active} a one-of-a-kind limited-time crossover sleuthing event that brought 13 hit indie games together in one pack. Cryptic clues were dropped into games like Team Fortress 2, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Super Meat Boy, Amnesia: The Dark Descent and AudioSurf. Each clue had a common thread: Potatoes. A complex ARG (alternate reality game) glyphs or codes and hidden messages were slipped into each game, some were messages buried in simple text files while other games had all-new levels based on potato themes (Super Potato Boy became playable in Super Meat Boy). An all-new potato hat  {link no longer active} was unlocked for players of Team Fortress 2. Decoded phrases like “You found many. Find the rest.” and “Here’s Da Beens, Dougtato were also discovered in promotional videos {link no longer active}. A wiki called PotatosFoolsDay kept track of the game in progress. Players that unlocked all 13 clues get the game unlocked early on Steam and also get a special skin for Portal 2 co-op play.

 

 

Who Will Be The Next Madden NFL 12 Cover Athlete?

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It s that time of year again to vote which NFL player will grace the cover of the next version of Madden. The final round is between Peyton Hills of the Cleveland Browns or Michael Vick of the Philadelphia Eagles. Vote now to decide who will be the winner and tune in to SportsNation to see the winner announced live on April 27 at 4 p.m. EST on ESPN 2.