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Shakespeare County Makes Casual Gamers into Modern Romeos

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Heh. Shakespeare County just released the Shakespeare Game, a Prince of Persia-esque challenge in which you, Romeo, have to hunt Juliet down and whisk her off the balcony.

Gather books and roses to fortify you along the way, and beware walking skeletons, spiked ditches and warthog-looking things. Every once in awhile the Bard appears to drop hints.

After an infernal loading period we blew at least 10 happily-lost minutes on the first handful of levels. No word on if success results in double suicide though.

by Angela Natividad    May-27-09   Comments (2)    Bookmark and Share     
Topic: Brands, Games, Online

Jezebel Gets Frisky, Malibu Bowls (Again), Google Bitch Slapped

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- The Firsky thinks Gawker site Jezebel is engaging in double talk by lambasting sexist advertising while accepting money from advertisers who, according to The Frisky, make sexist advertising.

- Subway is out with a new Subway Kids game.

- More Malibu Rum Island Bowling silliness.

- adMarketplace would like us to know "For the second straight quarter, Google reported that it cut its Traffic Acquisition Costs (payments to AdSense publishers) in the first quarter of 2009. Their payout to publishers dropped 1.7% in Q4 2008, and an additional 2.1% in Q1 2009, costing AdSense publishers thousands of dollars."

by Steve Hall    May-19-09   Comments ()    Bookmark and Share     
Topic: Commercials, Games, Online, Research, Weblogs

VW Digitally Does GM's Disneyworld Test Track

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Ever been to Disneyworld? Ever been on the GM Test Track ride? Then you know exactly what you're getting into with this Tribal DDB London-created online game, The GTI Project. It's to hype the launch of Volkswagon's new Golf GTI Mk VI.

While the work is inspired by the Golf's invention back in the seventies when VW engineers sequestered themselves in a secret room in their spare time to design the first generation Golf...it's a digital version of GM's Test Track Disney ride.

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Not knocking the work and we are a VW fan having owned three but if we had to choose the best ride, we'd have to go with GM's real world version. Of course, not everyone can go to Disney all the time so let's just thank Tribal DDB London for providing us a digital alternative.

by Steve Hall    May-12-09   Comments ()    Bookmark and Share     
Topic: Games, Online

Doritos Digs Dodgeball

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Remember when dodgeball was just a stupid game you played in gym class when the teacher didn't feel like teaching you anything that actually had to do with physical education? Well those were the days. Thanks to a movie and a bunch of people not interested in playing "real" sports, it's now become a popular sport. Which, of course, means it's now part of an ad campaign.

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by Steve Hall    May-12-09   Comments ()    Bookmark and Share     
Topic: Games, Good, Online

Got Aggression? Shoot the Banker.

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It's live paintball, everybody, brought to you by a handful of creatives: Brigham White, Richard Fleming, Aaron Mcguire and Taran Chadha, who lives in Boulder -- the rock under the shadow of CP+B.

From The Denver Egotist:


"At ShootTheBanker.com, angry humans queue up behind other angry humans (much like the line at the post office) for their chance to aim and fire a paintball gun at a live actor playing the role of "banker" on a faux stage. All while he fires his best shit-talk back at you. Before you go postal for real, give this thing a whirl. Ah, America."

Indeed indeed.

by Angela Natividad    May- 8-09   Comments (5)    Bookmark and Share     
Topic: Brands, Games, Online

'Got Milk?' Chums Up with White Gold.

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The fruit of their liaison is called the Thrashteurizer, a Facebook game that grants users the chance to win a Gibson guitar, autographed by White Gold, and $500 cash.

Between April 13 and June 21, five more top scorers will get a Thrashteurizer T-shirt. Probably no autographs for those though; the free cotton factor should be sufficient to sustain you.

by Angela Natividad    May- 6-09   Comments (2)    Bookmark and Share     
Topic: Brands, Campaigns, Celebrity, Games

Candystand Makes Mah Jongg Game for Toyota Venza.

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Because that makes perfect sense, yeah? Tap those old marmies where they like it best: on their itchy little gambling fingers.

Better that they play under the warm glow of Internets and not in the garage -- which should really be housing a Toyota Venza, not a cheap green foldout poker table.

by Angela Natividad    Apr-16-09   Comments (4)    Bookmark and Share     
Topic: Brands, Games, Online, Promotions

Nestea Rides the Mechanical Bear

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Weird. Weird. Weird. Thanks to Venables Bell & Partners, Odopod and Nestea, We have...the Mechanical Riding Bear! Yes, that and a collection of other weird activities like the Room of Doom and The Cobra Pit. It's all fun and games filmed Diesel Heides-style. And it's called Liquid Awesomeness.

As it was described to us, "It's kind of like a webcam, a viral video, a video game and a commercial had a disgusting foursome and then somehow gave birth." Yea, we'd have to agree with that assessment.

by Steve Hall    Apr- 8-09   Comments (5)    Bookmark and Share     
Topic: Games, Good, Strange

Forced to Sing For Simon Cowel or Cook For Bobby Flay?

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"We really click because we get each other."Say what? Oh wait. Yea. That's the definition of a BFF. Well, at least according to MySpace which has launched an online game show called BFF. No need for a lengthy explanation here. It's exactly the same thing as The Dating Game or The Newlyweds. Just more bubbleheaded.

Of course the questions really have nothing to do with the relationship between BFFs, rather what pop preferences each has and whether or not one half of the other BFF knows what the other likes. Deep, man. Really deep.

by Steve Hall    Apr- 2-09   Comments ()    Bookmark and Share     
Topic: Games, Online

Dockers Makes Shakeable iPhone Ad

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Dockers finally produces an ad that enables you to realize a fantasy you've probably had more than once: the ability to shake the living crap out of it.

The ad features urban street dancer Orbitron (Dufon) of Circle of Fire. He'll appear in iPhone games "iBasketball," "iGolf" and "iBowl," as well as lifestyle application iTV, AdAge says. At various intervals, users have to shake the iPhone to get Dufon to bust a move.

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by Angela Natividad    Mar-13-09   Comments (2)    Bookmark and Share     
Topic: Brands, Campaigns, Games, Mobile/Wireless

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