I don’t play FarmVille on Facebook, but I’ll try to keep an open mind as I put this post together. Capital One, the U.S. based bank specializing in credit cards, home loans and auto loans, is running a week-long promotion on FarmVille, the hugely popular Facebook-based game from Zynga. The promo provides special rewards for [...]
Electronic Arts announced a 12-month partnership with Toyota that features the Toyota Prius and Toyota Prius Eco-Greenhouse as giftable virtual items within MONOPOLY Millionaires, the free-to-play Facebook game based on the classic board game from Hasbro. The integration of the Toyota Prius is a re-imagining of the original game pieces. As players navigate their way [...]
My friends at BFG Communications in Hilton Head Island (where I once worked) recently won the Buffalo Wild Wings’ social media marketing account. It didn’t take them long to strike. According to today’s New York Times, Buffalo Wild Wings is embarking on a geolocation campaign, called “Home Court Advantage,” in hopes of engaging customers at [...]
Wes Keltner of Gun has lots of ideas about how brands can best enter the new Kinect for XBOX 360 gaming space. “Gamers are a highly interactive, socially driven community of early adopters with acute sensitivity to bullshit,” advises Keltner. In other words, a brand can’t place a billboard inside a game and expect anything [...]
To promote the 2011 Scion tC sports coupe the car brand and ATTIK kicked off their “Take On the Machine” campaign last August, targeting young, predominantly male drivers across the U.S. At the center of the campaign is an augmented reality game. “This project represents the direction ATTIK is now moving in,” said interactive creative [...]
Sam Machkovech of The Atlantic doesn’t care for the TBWA\Chiat\Day-produced commercial above. I couldn’t have asked for a more disappointing game-related ad. These aren’t the video games I play. Even at their highest levels of action and violence, video games play like sophisticated games of Cops & Robbers. They’re silly; they require colorful, funny-shaped controllers; [...]
To the surprise of my friends, I don’t own/play Guitar Hero or Rock Band. I suppose I’d like it, I just never got the inclination to spend money on a fake guitar with no strings. Apparently the folks at PowerGig, makers of a real six-string guitar that’s also designed for video game use, feel the [...]
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