Blur, the latest racing game from the team behind the Xbox's Project Gotham series, has copped a little flak for being like Mario Kart, only with real cars. Instead of deflecting that argument, this ad just runs with it. Sure, it does nothing to make me any more interested in picking up the game, but it does have me more interested in seeing more ads taking the piss out of other games. Azureus Rising is the proof-of-concept for an all new feature film trilogy. Azureus is the story of a young man who after escaping death and enduring a life changing journey - matures into a heroic freedom fighter. Azureus Rising is an epic tale of self discovery, obligation and love against all odds. O2's new TV ad by VCCP accuses rivals of offering a poor service and making misleading claims. The ad shows a series of odd looking animated characters to illustrate problems with broadband companies. O2 aims to persuade the public that consumers who sign up to its service will avoid the problems represented by the characters, which include No Support-a-Saurus and Mystery-Speed Mook. The activity will involve TV, posters, press ads and online. The TV ad will be followed by a video-on-demand push aiming to demonstrate to those watching online TV that O2 Broadband can offer more than their current supplier. To check out the video, click here! During the first day of the Google I/O 2010 event, a certain piece of news would have made web-designers jump out of their seats with joy. Google announced its new Google Fonts API, a tool for adding non-standard web fonts on any web page.
Typography is a big part of the print industry, but nowadays people tend to think more of it as the problem in modern web design. This is mainly because browsers have been lagging behind other desktop applications when it comes to font support. The new API from Google will enable developers to embed a series of open-source high-quality fonts on their page through simple lines of code. To do so, Google set up a new service called the Google Font Directory (still in beta) to host those fonts. In celebration of PAC-MAN's 30th birthday, Google has resurrected the arcade classic for its home page. Users only need to click 'Insert Coin' or wait a few seconds for the ghoul-munching mayhem to begin. If you click the 'Insert Coin' button again, Ms. PAC-MAN magically appears so that you can play with a friend. (PAC-MAN is controlled with the mouse or arrow keys, while his lady moves with the WASD keys.) The game's only up for 48 hours, so be sure to hop over to Google for some tasty ghost meat. Too bad you're stuck with the original music, instead of 'Pac-Man Fever' or Aphex Twin's classic, delirious 'Pacman' remix as Power-pill.
Arow over Facebook's casual attitude towards the privacy of its 400 million users is threatening to snowball into a full-blown crisis as high-profile members start closing their accounts. Facebook seems to deem the situation serious enough to have called an 'all hands' meeting of its staff yesterday to address concerns over data protection. The situation was inflamed when Silicon Alley Insider posted an old instant messaging conversation between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and a friend in which the then 19-year-old Harvard student called users of his newly founded website 'dumb fucks'. During the conversation, Zuckerberg writes: Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuck: Just ask. Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS Friend: What? How'd you manage that one? Zuck: People just submitted it. Zuck: I don't know why. Zuck: They "trust me" Zuck: Dumb fucks. Facebook responded to the publication of the 'dumb fucks' message, saying: "The privacy and security of our users' information is of paramount importance to us. We're not going to debate claims from anonymous sources or dated allegations that attempt to characterise Mark's and Facebook's views towards privacy." SMART Technologies shows off their touch screen interactive whiteboards in their stop motion-centric spot “The Magic Classroom” and asks you to vote for the “best teacher in the world” on their website. "Need To Feel Loved" is an atmospheric slice of house, taking inspiration from some gorgeous strings from the "Road To Perdition" soundtrack. These simmer underneath an emotional, yet strong vocal from Delline Bass, and some hypnotising drum beats, forming a well crafted song that cries out to be heard. To buy the track, click here. Reflekt - Need To Feel Loved Reflekt - Need To Feel Loved (Adam K & Soho Remix) TWO creatures called Mandeville and Wenlock were unveiled as mascots for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Organisers of the London 2012 Olympic Games created a cartoon and signed up best-selling children’s writer Michael Morpurgo to build a background story for the abstract mascots. Children from St Paul’s Whitechapel Primary School in the east London Olympic borough were the first members of the public to see the London 2012 Olympic Games mascots in action. Wenlock is named after the Shropshire village of Much Wenlock, where the Wenlock Games was one of the inspirations for Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic movement, to create the Olympics. London 2012 Olympic Games mascot Mandeville is named after Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire, where a forerunner of the modern Paralympic Games was first held. Indie Game: The Movie is a feature documentary about video games, their creators and the craft. This teaser segment features Edmund McMillen of 'Team Meat' discussing his childhood, his games and the connections between. Find out more about IndieGame: The Movie at - indiegamethemovie.com |
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