Three guys (Chad, Matt and Rob) have produced an actual interactive choose your own adventure series of videos using YouTube and its new feature of placing links and comments over the video.
At the end of each episode (above being episode one) you are given two choices as to what our heroes should do next, taking you to a new video chapter. The choice you make will determine what happens to them, with the ultimate goal of getting the three knuckleheads safely to their office meeting so they don’t get fired. Choose poorly and they’ll get their asses kicked by an assorted list of evildoers.
As if YouTube isn’t already a massive time-sink, this clever use of the video application will more than likely take those minutes left in out lives away.
Either this is a viral video to promote the God of Video Games, AKA: Guitar Hero, or it’s an actual teenager who’s got a lot of time on their hands. In any case what you’ll see in this video is said teen bookn’ down the street on his bike doing a real life version of the game. Pretty swank.
One remote controlled car. Multitudes of beer bottles. One gaming geek. It all adds up to creating one of the most iconic video game themes - Mario Bros.
Today is the grand opening of the highly anticipated MMORP Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. You can check out the newest cinematic trailer above to get an idea of the kind of world this will be - bloody and hellbent. So for those of you who think World of Warcraft is too mamby-pansy, this very well could be your bucket of gore.
We here at the ZMP headquarters are huge Warhammer fans, so… Let the geektastic bloodening begin!
J.J. Abrams loves layered stories and plots, and his new series Fringe is no exception. His viral marketing monkeys have been busy trying to get all of the ARG materials up online, including the newly opened site for fictitious conglomerate Massive Dynamic. The fan site FringeTelevision.com has published some of the new comics, which are prequels to the TV series. There’s a new music video for Fringe, featuring Ror-Shak and their cover of The Cure’s A Forest. And as if that’s not enough, there’s Glowing Monkeys. You’re guess is as good as mine on that one.
So once more Mr. Abrams you pull the strings to the geek world and we dance for your pleasure.
Want to waist a whole day getting your paper craft skillz on? Then Cubeecraft is where you begin your journey. These nerdtastic paper toys need no tape, glue or mad origami skills to assemble. Just print them out, cut ‘em and fold as directed. And let me tell you, there’s just about every geeky pop-culture icon there, for example - Ultraman, Brock, a Stormtrooper, Mr.Stay Puft, Usagi Yojimbo, Master Chief, Dr.Manhattan, Bender, Gir, Strongbad Jason Voorhees and Peyton Manning (yeah, he’s a nerd’s football player if there ever was one).
World meet A Band of Orcs, the metal-crushing band from the pages of any Dungeons & Dragons games. Armed with 20 sided dice and a mean ax, these masters of mayhem may very well be the successors of GWAR. Just watch their debut video Into the Maelstrom, which is filled with blood, war, scantly clad female elves in chains and obviously orcs. Lots and lots of orcs.
Want to make sure your kid thinks they’re the greatest thing in the universe? The make them a Katamari Damacy Prince of All Cosmos Baby Hat! Itchy Stitchy has the pattern, you have the baby, now get to it.
Sony Screen Gems has released Quarantine The Game into the Internets as a promotional for the upcoming movie Quarantine, which is due out this October.
It’s a fun little romp through the apartment complex filled with the infected which you must make your way around to make it to your objective. Objective, shmobjective - this game is about rendering zombie-type freaks into a pile of red goo with whatever you can find.
While we’re on the subject of upcoming video games, here’s a trailer for the highly anticipated Ghostbusters: The Video Game. Well, highly anticipated by a lot of nerds… of which I am one of. So shove it.
Technically a sequel to the films, the game stars Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Bill Murray reprising their roles as Spengler, Stantz, Zeddmore and Venkman. The game plot is pretty straightforward:
With Manhattain newly overrun by ghosts and other supernatural creatures, it’s up to you to take on the role of a new recruit joining the original, famous Ghostbusters team. Equipped with a variety of unique weapons and gadgets, you will hunt, fight and capture a wide range of uncanny phantasms and demons in an all-new, funny and frightening battle to save New York City from its latest paranormal plague.
Activision is releasing the game this October for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PC, Wii and Nintendo DS.
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