Friday, July 30, 2010

Gorillaz - Escape to Plastic Beach: The Game (iPhone + iPad app)



Game for iPhone and iPad to promote the new Gorillaz album. Basically the cool characters always looked like game heroes, so no surprise there. The only thing I don't get is why we can't play with the music?
Why not use your multitrack and facilitate consumers to create remixes bases on the beats, basslines, chords and vocals!?

Why don't you use the brandessence of what you are? A cool innovative brand.

My associations with this band are merely graffiti, art, urban style... and not a hang-gliding guy that shoots on flying targets above the sea....?

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

LEGO Fan in a blogumentary




AFOL A Blocumentary from AFOL on Vimeo.

Fall and Rise of the Fools Ark by Dadara & Jesse part 3



Impressive animations - thanks to a close friend who spotted it!

Monday, July 26, 2010

Presenting during Marketing RSLT Summer School [Dutch only - sorry]



I am presenting my vision on the new media landscape during the Marketing RSLT Summer school* and will reveal some new cases how you can use games as a marketing tool.

Feel free to subscribe before upcoming August 15th here - all my relations will get their second workshop for FREE!

Be sure to fill in 'BrandNewGame / Bart Hufen' in the 'opmerkingen' field at the bottom of the subscription form.

* Bloemendaal 25th of August 2010 - The Netherlands.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Old Spice | The Man Your Man Could Smell Like



Nothing to do with games, but this one is just GREAT!

Well done Wieden & Kennedy: ... I'm on a horse... historical!

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

An update on iPhone apps & games in two pictures







Ingame advertising: Base-x



The Dutch Royal Airforce has developed a game called Base-X and uses in-game advertising in Battlefield 2142 to promote this. In my opinion it would have been much more effective to have a Modification developed in BF2 or America's Army like we proposed together with Power Unlimited some time ago...

Designing simplicity / usability, hence why Apple rules...by Dr. BJ Fogg


BJ Fogg on Simplicity from BJ Fogg on Vimeo.

Tiger Woods 09 - Walk on Water



Check the video below first, then this one... This is EA's answer to a Youtube video uploaded by a gamer in 2007 (with over 1 million views). This video has over 5 million views globally...

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 Jesus Shot


Nice... always looking for glitches...

Friday, July 16, 2010

Osmos - a Spiritual iPhone Game - Trailer



A Spiritual Fingergame for iPhone... for a serene weekend!

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

iPad: 2 year old playing by himself (puzzle game Tozzle)



A friend of mine asked his lovely two-year old kid to play a game on the iPad... be amazed how fast this goes!

Monday, July 12, 2010

Virgin Games - McDonald Land - 1992



And another classic - US only I think... McDonald Land...

Pepsi Invaders Advergame - The first advergame ever!



This is probably the first advergame ever... originally on Atari 2600 I believe.
Great mocking by Coca-Cola towards Pepsi. I wonder when Pepsi will strike back?

Call me if you want some great ideas! ;-)

Burger King Games



Burger King actually sold advergames for a little under 5 bucks in 2008 for Xbox... We are talking about games that contain ingame branding by Burger King... ! They were sold out.

Flower™ - Official Trailer





I haven't posted this before, because I am still arguing if this is a game, but Flower could at least be described as visual yoga....? For that reason it could easily contribute to objectives on personnel (staff) - to inspire and relax your employees during busy days at work. If you're running out of time because of too much work, play Flower for 10 to 15 minutes and your effectiveness will surely improve after playing.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

E3 2010 Coverage - Machinima - Inside Gaming E3 Edition: Electronic Ente...



Some more stunning gametrailers brought to you by Machinima at the E3...

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood E3 Trailer [North America]



This looks Amazing!

Friday, July 9, 2010

Google Chrome Speed Tests



Still... speed should not be the USP... finding what I am looking for in Google is more what I like... instead of getting 2.000.000 hits on a word like 'game' and Need for Speed... just get me ONLY the information I'm looking for...

Thursday, July 1, 2010

The Annoying Orange in Pac-Man

It's stupid and annoying, but REMARKABLE! :-)