When you hear people discussing possible solutions again and again then you know they agree that there’s a problem. I keep on hearing about car-sharing as an important part of our future. British comedian Peter Kay has a whole new show, called Car Share, that will be part of the BBC’s new summer line-up. It […]
Sponsored Video: 5 Christmas traditions worth skipping
Christmas is a busy time of year and it can be quite stressful. That’s a shame. From its origins as a pagan festival, its co-opting by Christianity to the modern day combination of festive fun, shopping and a touch of religious respect where appropriate the day still has meaning to many people. That said; there […]
Sponsored Video: Dragon Age’s wonderful, open, world with plenty of mature action
BioWare are on the record with how Skyrim has influenced Dragon Age. The Elders Scroll smash hit brought a wave of new players into the RPG area and these gamers are not familiar with some old RPG tropes, habits and styles. The third game in BioWare’s popular fantasy RPG series; Dragon Age: Inquisition reflects that. […]
Google’s Halloween costume stats; 30% Frozen, 40% comic book and 10% game
Which Halloween costumes are most popular right now? Google knows. It’s shared the top 10 for this month and Frozen dominates with Elsa and Olaf in positions #1 and #2. What happened to Black Widow’s face? Google’s post is actually a case study into some clever search marketing that Buy Costumes did. The retailer predicted […]
Sponsored Video: The Light Before Vampires
This is a real thing. Electronics LG company have this two minute thirty long video and I watched it all. Now I’m going to share it with you. Just to recap on the plot. The sun is blocked by horrible grey clouds and the vampires are able to escape from the shadows. Mankind tries to […]
Sponsored Video: Spying on The Evil Within
Early last year Geek Native showed The Evil Within trailer. The game is a partnership between Skyrim’s Bethesda and the creator of Resident Evil. Trailers are one way to get a feel for a game but in a way they undersell the sort of immersive horrors that Shinji Mikami is known for. We’re all pretty […]
Short film: Graffiti Area
Graffiti Area is the third of the Bombay Sapphire’s second Imagination Series films Geek Native has shared. The first was Exit Log, a sci-fi, and the second Reflections that took a sinister twist. Don’t be put off when you see subtitles at the start. This isn’t a dialogue based short. It’s all action. The question […]
Short film: Reflections
At the start of the month, Geek Native shared Exit Log a short sci-fi film in which two people only had three seconds to save their spaceship. Exit Log was one of five films that shared the same outline and produced in Bombay Sapphire’s The Imagination Series. The drinks company is now sponsoring the distribution […]
The most dangerous game of Jenga ever filmed
This is not a game of Jenga you want to mess up. Each block weighs over 270kgs (600lbs). So what on Earth is going on? Cat, the company that makes all sorts of building machines, has a viral video success on their hands. There are a few of their machines getting to strut their stuff […]
Aliens and giant robots invade London
Londoners are a hardy lot and quite hard to fool – but Pepsi Max managed a few successes with this bus stop campaign. As you wait for the bus it looks like there’s just a window on the side but it’s actually a camera and screen. Pepsi’s ad agencies then threw in animations like robots […]
