Kareoke, Machinima, and Cute Girls Singing! The Sims 2 has had some amazing marketing recently, and we took a walk along some complex adverhax. They are sponsoring an art show at some pretty significant art schools, as well as sponsoring a cool music contest. Lily Allen sings one of her songs in Simlish, they make a machinima out of it, and then sponsor a kareoke contest in which you can sing the Simlish song. It just ended yesterday, unfortunately, but you could have won tickets to see her, and even head out to EA to record a song in Simlish yourself! We also think the micropurchases for the Xbox Guitar Hero is too expensive, and that’s saying a lot because we like micropayments, when done well.
EndgameRadio Episode 150
Published on April 11, 2007 by Tom Mannino | one commentCategories: News, Audio, Endgameradio Prime, In-game Advertising, Music, Competitions, Machinima, Game Music
OKSHOW #61
Published on April 10, 2007 by pen | 0 commentsCategories: OKSHOW
Hey everyone, I’m back on my PC and will be able to chat with you all tonight.
We’re gonna talk about stuff! POKEMON is coming out soon. I’m chomping at the bit for my next paycheck to go out and buy JUSTICE FOR ALL, since I haven’t gotten around to it yet.
And we’ll talk about how I’m not XXXHARDCOREXXX enough D:
Pen has a new job, in which she has to get up earlier in the mornings than she’s used to!
Plumbers in Bowlers
Published on by Aaron Matthew | 0 commentsCategories: News, Art
Wow, this is awesome, my jaw is on the floor. Now I can be high brow and low brow all at once.
More interesting Ludology news
Published on April 8, 2007 by Aaron Matthew | 0 commentsCategories: ?, Machinima, Ludology
Stanford gets a collection of 25,000 games: If only this kind of focus on archiving and preservation were around during the creation of the motion picture most of the originals might be in a similar archive. But what about non commercial games? There are some groups working on archiving architectural spaces (levels and such) of game worlds from old to new, and some others who work on a particular game lineage (rogue-like games for example), but I’m sure there are some old MUDs forever lost to humanity if no one speaks up about them.
Machinima School: I can’t wait until the throngs of amateur machinima-based theses (plural thesis for those who think that’s a typo) and school dramas with bad unreal models or warcraft characters dancing to the tune of really bad music. Oh, wait… If anything this is probably a good introduction, especially as a medium of expansion for the oh-so-awesome Experimental Animation degree.
Ice Lynx #43
Published on April 6, 2007 by icelynx | 0 commentsCategories: ?, Shows, IceLynx Radio
I saw Grindhouse, it was worth my single monies for double movies. I dreamt the movie “1408″ a couple weeks ago and have never heard of it, EVER. MindFUNKED for sure. Still creeped out by it. Tonight I’m keeping it real and kicking back ready to converse with y’all during the show.
Che Casinos
Published on by Aaron Matthew | 0 commentsCategories: Raves, Second Life, Yiff Yiff Yiff, Legality
I think this is what disturbs me most about Second Life. They clamp down on the ability for casinos to spam ad the system due to potential Feds/legal problems (as far as I’m sure most courts are concerned, SL could be considered harboring/agenting online gambling and since they’re an American company hosted here, this is completely illegal). This doesn’t mean they’re killing casinos, just not allowing them to advertise easily (read: not allowing the feds to pull up a quick index for a report).
And yet, check out these comments *shudder*
You’d think a 12-year-old online furry Che Guevara had just been captured by the CIA and executed, and the guerrillas were brandishing their shouts for their new martyr.
Peter Molyneux’s a Knight
Published on April 5, 2007 by Tom Mannino | 0 commentsCategories: News
Entertainment Today, Video Game and Industry News - Peter Molyneux’s a Knight
Molyneux, the designer behind such games as Fable and Black & White, was granted the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, or The Knighthood in the Order of Arts and Letters. French minister of culture Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres presented the award.
Sir Peter of Molyneux! I wanna be a Knight, that’s awesome.
EndgameRadio Episode 149
Published on April 4, 2007 by Tom Mannino | 0 commentsCategories: Audio, Endgameradio Prime
This week we talked about Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll. Except by Sex, we mean that we talked about Second Life. Drugs, we talked about MMOs. Rock and Roll, we talked about Rock Band, the new music game from the makers of Guitar Hero, which allows two guitarists, a drummer, and a singer!
OKSHOW #60: SILENCE IN MOTION
Published on April 3, 2007 by pen | 0 commentsCategories: OKSHOW
Hey everyone, this is going to be a silent show… as I’m broadcasting from my laptop and I’ve yet to figure out how to make the microphone function peacefully.
I’d try to talk on the mic, but I’m not sure you guys want to hear feedback out the wazoo.
Tune in for some random music quickly loaded off my home PC. I apologize in advance for redundant stuff.
Study finds stable personalities unaffected by violent games
Published on by Tom Mannino | 0 commentsCategories: News, Controversy
Study finds stable personalities unaffected by violent games
The authors of the study note that the literature contains a combination of studies that show a connection between aggression and violent games, others that showed no such connection, and a few studies showing that gaming reduced aggression. They claim that their study is unique in that it considers the possibility that these represent three distinct responses to gaming, and suggest that prior studies may have produced conflicting results by trying to shoehorn these into a binary classification.
The studies go back and forth. Back and forth. Forever.