The multimedia campaign for Halo 3 ate lunch and dinner at the 87th Annual Art Directors Club Awards, taking home 5 Gold Awards in Broadcast Advertising, Broadcast Art Direction and Integrated Advertising. It is one of the most decorated art projects in history.
For the launch the third game in the Halo series Bungie and Microsoft assembled a truly breathtaking breadth of diorama, video and audio that takes viewers through the Battle for New Mombasa where Earth’s forces clashed with the invading Covenant alien fleet.
The story of battle is…
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There’s a reason we like to throw parties on Tuesdays.
Tuesday just seems to be the day when all the goat residue hits the fan.
Today alone you’ve got:
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With about a week to go, someone (or several someones) have ripped and leaked the XBOX 360 PAL version (European/Australian version) of GTA IV to various torrent sites.
You could download it and play if you have a modified XBOX 360, but the NTSC version (North American) is expected in the next couple days.
If you absolutely cannot wait to see how much juice dynamic lighting brings to the GTA series you can watch the REAL PS3 INTRO here.
via Kotaku
UPDATE: leaked videos are being removed from the internet with German…
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The second-annual Wii Tennis Tournament, Wiimbledon 2008, is Saturday June 7 at Barcade in Brooklyn. The winner of that tournament gets a pair of roundtrip tickets to San Fran to compete in the first-ever Wiimbledon West.
Tournament founders, Steve & Lane, will be making the trip across the country in their Wiinnebago, stopping along the way for other mini Wii Tennis tournaments, likely alongside the World’s Largest Non-Stick Frying Pan.
Like last year, Wiimbledon is totally free. Sign up at Wiimbledon.net.
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“The Graveyard is a very short computer game designed by Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn. You play an old lady who visits a graveyard. You walk around, sit on a bench and listen to a song. It’s more like an explorable painting than an actual game. An experiment with realtime poetry, with storytelling without words.”
You can download the trial for free; $5 gets you the full version for Mac or PC with the added possibility of death. In a graveyard. Very convenient.
Play The Graveyard.
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Two kids play some variation of California Cruisin’ at the Fun Zone inside the International Arrivals Terminal at JFK.
A man, perhaps a guardian (though the remove at which he watches suggests he is a stranger) has been drawn from his seat towards the whirring glow.
The placement of the Fun Zone, in the middle-smack of a smooth swath of terminal linoleum, suggests that its makers understood the Zone’s resplendent, almost monolithic quality. It seems to radiate prophecy, the potential for salvation.
The placement of the Mastercard advertisement on the…
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Last June at Barcade, Wiimbledon, the world’s only Wii Tennis Tournament, came kicking and swinging into the world.
This year it’s going on tour. Like a band.
Leaving NYC the first week of June, Wiimbledon founders Steve Bryant and Lane Buschel, plan to cover 3000 miles of middle America in a Wiinnebago, throwing mini tennis tournaments along the way, and arrive in SF for the Wii finale on the Summer Solstice, June 21st, the weekend before the real Wimbledon.
Steve and Lane will pilot the Wiinnebago themselves, but they hope to…
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Easily one of the best games of all time for Super Nintendo, Zombies Ate My Neighbors becomes especially relevant as we move towards FSHN DL IV: UNDD BLL on October 30th.
You play as one of two suburban adolescents, a boy (wearing 3-D glasses) or a girl.
Armed with squirt uzis and your knowledge of B-horror flicks, you must reclaim your town and rescue your neighbors from an army of monster spawn: zombies (quickly returned to the grave with one blast from your water gun) vampires, werewolves, satanic dolls, martians, 50-foot babies,…
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Today is THAT day for two reasons:
1. Ahhh-ah-Ahhh-dum-dum-dum-dah-dah
2. DNCHRD III: VNYL
So, in the spirit of LVHRD–Creativity X Collaboration X Competition–we don’t see why Halo 3 and DNCHRD III can’t work together to make September 25th, 2007 a monumentally historic day.
Even Master Chief wants to get down with the get-down!
You wear this costume to DNCHRD III tonight and you can walk right in the door.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FONdU2reYd4
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Consider the summer blockbuster. You go to the movies to be unfettered and cool on a Friday night: Shia Labeouf battles the robots and after 2 hours, back on the honest and burnt streets of Manhattan, all is peaceful again away from the celluloid. You can walk home mildly quenched, the restlessness in your heart momentarily stilled by the thrall of Hollywood devastation.
Does the wanton destruction in summer movies reflect the violence in the world–the war in desert countries? Or does it reflect the stoppered violence in our hearts? The…
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To promote the Wii in Italy Nintendo came up with the idea of using hundreds of Post It notes to make collages of Nintendo characters like Mario and Donkey Kong.
Passerbys peel off the notes, which on the reverse suggest classic 80s Nintendo games available on the Wii. (via thecoolhunter)
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One half of the LVHRD A + B controller team from Wiimbledon, B, got fireball-caked by Mario last night outside a bar in Greenpoint.
We’ve heard rumors it was his birthday and that the assault had been in the works for some time. Lucky for B, this Mario didn’t have unlimited ammo. Photos of the massacre by kansasliberal.
Also: A+B Wiimbledon jumping jacks on MTV news.
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