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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9rf9GmYpM 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 […]
Sponsored Video: From steampunk elephants to Titanfall – a brief history of mecha warfare
American gamers already have access to Titanfall and it looks like they’re loving it. Here in the UK we’re waiting just a few more days – until the 14th. With at least one pundit calling the game “Microsoft’s killer app” Titanfall has a piece of Microsoft history all to itself. The game is available for […]
IKEA give cosplayer a bedroom makeover
This is an ad for IKEA in Singapore. They visit Frank who is a civil servant by day and a cosplayer by night. You know what this means; no space, no space to put anything including his rather awesome costume designs. IKEA come in and re-do his bedroom. Rather than chucking all his models, anime […]
Zombie prank for The Walking Dead
Still watching The Walking Dead? In the States AMC have put together a prank to remind us to tune in. It takes the core ideas of a) walking and b) zombies and puts them together to frighten NYC workers. That’s quite hard to do. Is this the future of marketing? Sneaking up and scaring the […]
Subaru surprises audiences with Attack on Titan ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQkgmHEA5_E This TV ad from Subaru is a collaboration with the manga Attack on Titan. There’s a live action movie coming and so these Titans give us a glimpse at how scary they could be. It reminds me of the section the anime had on the Survey Corp horses and how important it was they […]
You’ll never guess where The Hobbit was filmed
Did I say “You’ll never guess where The Hobbit was filmed”? – if that’s true the marketing agency for Air New Zealand is weeping. Last year we had Peter Jackson and the WETA Workshop crew give an unexpected briefing for for the airline. It’s a year later and we’ve got a sequel to the viral […]
