Update: Official video embedded
Ok, I think I’ve figured out this video for Yeasayer’s Madder Red.
It’s got to be part of an ARG promoting Bioshock Infinite. I can’t believe they would spoil the game this early, but you can clearly see that Kristen Bell’s one armed face-monster rules the clouds at the end of this video. There’s no doubt it’s the final boss.
Too easy, Ken Levine. Too easy.
I thought that terrible piece on how the Black Eyed Peas was the #1 reason to be excited about music was the most insulting thing the Rolling Stone had done to music lovers this decade.
I was wrong.
I received the above email earlier today. Apparently, I forgot I had subscribed to The Rolling Stone (and it’s email newsletter) many years ago. I can deal with the unwanted email; I probably should have double checked the newsletter preferences more closely. But to squander a communication attempt with a former subscriber on this tripe?
Come on.
Many of you may heard of Will Wright’s upcoming “revolutionary” game, Spore.
Some of you may know that EA is selling the “Creature Creator” portion of the game later this week (for $9.95) so people can get a head start on making their own creatures for the game.
A few of you may have even downloaded the leaked demo of said Creature Creator which has 25% of the body parts for you to play with.
But I guarantee that none of you are prepared to view the creation in the video above. It scoffs at all of the amateurs who hastily created penis or even goatse creatures as their first creations. Instead, it serves as the torchbearer for what the human spirit can accomplish on the internet.
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I don’t know how I missed this earlier this week, but Fox News anchor, E.D. Hill, calling Barack and Michelle Obama doing a fist bump, a “Terrorist Fist-Jab” is definitely one of the pottiest things I’ve heard all year.
Sadly, Ms. Hill has lost her show. On the bright side, she’s coined a catchphrase that will surely linger on the interwebs for years to come.
Maybe someone should set Akon and T-Pain up with the boys over at hellogoodbye for some conference call sass.
Activision, 7-11, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft have announced a joint blitzkrieg promotion involving the upcoming Guitar Hero: Aerosmith and Slurpee cups at 7-11. Apparently there’s a new slurpee flavor called “Full Throttle Frozen Blast” and what better way to promote a frozen energy drink to the coveted 18-34 male demographic than to slap branding of Ben Throttle Aerosmith on the cups?
I have no problem with promoting video games to the mainstream with beverage branding. I actually thought the Halo 3-themed Mountain Dew flavor last year was a good cog in the giant promotions machine for the game.
What I do question, is a) The existence of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith in the first place and b) Do young people who go to 7-11 care about Aerosmith?
“The sweet spot of the core Slurpee customer is between 18 and 24 years old,” said Jay Wilkins, brand manager for Slurpee and Big Gulp® beverages. “Our goal is to keep Slurpee as cool today as it was to teens and young adults in the 1960s when it was first introduced.”
Aerosmith might have been cool to teens and young adults in the first decade the Slurpee was introduced, but somehow I highly doubt the kids of today are rebelling against their parents by listening to Honkin’ on Bobo and drinking their slurpees.
See, the thing about the Halo Mountain Dew promotion was that there hadn’t been a Halo game released in 3 years. The anticipation and excitement was there – having a Mountain Dew flavor was just adding to the hysteria. We just had a Guitar Hero game release nary six months ago, with another two coming out in early summer.
Why don’t we save the all out promotion blitzes for when you put out Rock Band Guitar Hero IV in a couple of years months?
Read the press release [biz.yahoo.com]
When I went to buy my $9 Upper Deck seats for a Dodgers game last night, I didn’t expect to pay $327.50 per ticket in “convenience charges” to Ticketmaster. I mean, sure, they routinely charge us almost 100% of ticket face values, but 3633% ? For cheap seats at a baseball game it seems just a tad excessive.
On the bright side, it looks like they comped the face value of the seats for me!
This video speaks for itself.
wat.
