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Archives for August 2010

No Can’t Do; Suso marketing ninja

August 4, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

What do you get when you mix berry, orange, lemon and apple together? Ninja. At least, that’s the hope of the fizzy soft drink Suso who are reaching out to new audiences with the aid of their “Neon ninja” to the internet. The first video offered to teach the audience Parkour, freerunning, martial arts, tricking […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: ads, ninja

StarCraft II melting graphic cards

August 3, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Yesterday Geek Native covered the news that StarCraft II had sold more 5 days than StarCraft I ever sold. Today? Today brings the news that StarCraft II may actually be causing some PC’s graphic cards to melt. The DailyTech picks this up. They’ve the story of Game Informer’s Adam Biessener who sufffered the melty melty […]

Filed Under: PC Tagged With: blizzard, StarCraft, StarCraft II

Criminal Girls: RPG Where You Punish Girls

August 3, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This RPG was born in Japan. Something tells me it will stay in Japan. One of Image Epoch‘s new PSP RPGs has the title “RPG Where You Punish Girls” or “Criminal Girls”. My Japanese (by which I mean Google Translate) struggles with this insider blog post. Guess what you do in it? Yup! But wait… […]

Filed Under: Console Tagged With: Japan, psp, rpg, sony

Kissing gay couple on Spider-man cover. Yay Marvel

August 3, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Lots of people were worried when Disney bought Marvel. Fear not, the good fight lives on…. or, at least, Disney hasn’t started to go through the back catalogue and started to censor things. Drawn by David Garcia from the Ultimate Comics Spider-man (2009) #15 is a rather nice cover. Poor Spidey doesn’t look as if […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: disney, marvel, spider-man

Deliver me to Hell: an interactive zombie survival game on YouTube

August 2, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This is seven circles of hell perfect. Hell Pizza in New Zealand have created an interactive YouTube game in which you have to survive zombie attack and deliver a pizza. It’s just like a Fighting Fantasty choose your own game except with videos (and, well, no dice). The game gets you started by watching a […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: food, zombies

StarCraft II sells more in one week than StarCraft I ever sold

August 2, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There will be smiles at Activision Blizzard this week. StarCraft II is a commercial success. It was helped that there were no other big releases this week. Rockstar‘Red Dead Redemption dipped 8% in sales whereas one big climber was Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies which climbed 27% in sales. These figures come […]

Filed Under: PC Tagged With: StarCraft, StarCraft II

Literal Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows trailer

August 2, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s been a while since I’ve watched one of the once-popular literal video redux on YouTube. They’re clearly still going and I should have expected a Harry Potter one to appear. Step forward Tobuscus and their work on the Deathly Hallows trailer. Good job, guys, good job.

Filed Under: Movies, Music Tagged With: harry potter, trailers

Cute zombie animal plates

August 1, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It takes a certain style to have dinnerware plates that are too good to go into the microwave. It takes a similar strength of style to have dinnerware that depicts cute zombie animals. These little terrors are just ideal for dinner. Pick them up for a mere $20 at the excellently named Third Life Studios.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: fashion, zombies

GlaDOS plushie

August 1, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood 4 Comments

Etsy is a big bucket of good ideas. It’s a website that collects people with talent. Damn their eyes. How’s this for a product intro: We here at Aperture Science are glad to announce the newest addition of plushie goodness. Welcome the Curiosity Sphere. She can help you out with the worlds questions… by asking […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: portal, portal 2

Extended Supernatural trailer is YouTube hit

August 1, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

In the States, on The CW, Supernatural returns on Friday, Sept 24th. The station posted an extended trailer for the show – 1 minute and 11 seconds long – on YouTube on July the 30th. On Sunday it was one of the most popular videos on YouTube. Not bad, not bad all Winchesters. What do […]

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: Supernatural, trailers

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