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Nike+ Xbox Kinect Training Game
Here is it. The highly anticipated new Nike+ game for Xbox that is powered by the Kinect, allowing you to train at home as part of the game, earn fuel points and track your performance as part of the Nike+ platform with the Kinect measuring your every move. The game provides an initial test to [...]
Continue reading...Comodo: The Instagram Menu
16. October 2012
While I can’t say this concept is completely original (a tonne of apps already do this), formalising this tactical idea for restaurants in leveraging hashtags on Instagram is brilliantly simple, low cost and provides an earned media platform almost instantly… So, just make the food look brilliant and don’t leave any hairs in there! If [...]
Continue reading...CinePrint: Lexus ES Interactive Video Print Ad
12. October 2012
After doing a double take on this interactive print ad, I’m asking myself is this the world’s coolest and perhaps most innovative print ad or is the actually the complete opposite? My gut reaction is ‘super cool’ but then logic sets in and I’m wondering a few things… The first being, who’s reading a physical [...]
Continue reading...L’Oreal: The Next Level XBOX 360 App
9. October 2012
L’Oreal have moved into the console gaming territory with ‘The Next Level’ XBOX 360 App, a personalised world of beauty, style and entertainment delivered right into the Xbox gaming console, complete with a participation based rewards program. The app includes things like a personal stylist, tips, forums, inspiration and even an educational style academy program… [...]
Continue reading...BMW Vagvisarna: 3 Series Google Maps Hunt
2. September 2012
Google Maps have been and are becoming more and more the default promotional platform of choice for big campaigns, and car manufactures are perhaps the biggest players. BMW in Sweden have launched a Google Maps hunt to launch the new BMW 3 Series Touring, challenging users to follow their social channels for clues, whilst jumping [...]
Continue reading...Expendables 2: Deploy and Destroy Advergame
19. August 2012
Hyping up the new Expendables 2 movie is this cool new advergame called ‘Deploy and Destroy’ which is a twist on the classic tower defence game, but here, you just happen to get to choose your squad from the biggest cast of action heroes ever assembled, who will, if you’re good, unleash some serious fire [...]
Continue reading...KRAFT Macaroni & Cheese: Make iPad Art
7. August 2012
Here’s the latest innovative piece of work from KRAFT Macaroni & Cheese, an iPad app that stops the wastage (at the hands of Kids) of tonnes of pasta pieces the world over, and creates a new, super cool way for those same kids to create all the best Macaroni Art they can possibly imagine. Created [...]
Continue reading...Volkswagen Street View Quest: Pin It to Win It
3. August 2012
Here’s the latest Volkswagen work, this time out of South Africa, with the Volkswagen ‘Street Quest’ advergame… It’s a Facebook challenge to find and ‘Pin’ as many Volkswagens on South African roads as possible, using a gamified, custom version of Google Street View. The campaign is running over a 4 week period, where the people [...]
Continue reading...Magnum: Pleasure Hunt 2 Advergame
3. April 2012
Everyone loves a race across the internet, so here comes round 2 of the Magnum Pleasure Hunt Advergame, this time taking you for a run in New York, some flight time over Paris and even a surf in Rio De Janeiro through a partnership with Microsoft/Bing Maps as you’ll quickly notice! It’s a pretty good [...]
Continue reading...Mad Men: The 8-Bit YouTube Advergame
25. March 2012
Mad Men is back and along with it comes a host of great content, including this weirdly wonderful 8-Bit YouTube “Choose Your Own Adventure” style Advergame that is getting some solid traction. It’s less than 5 days old and already over 300,000 people have played the game (or at least started it), plenty of the [...]
Continue reading...Ponk: Experimental Kinect Gaming Installation
27. February 2012
Here is a another good example of how Microsoft’s Kinect can be used to bring interactivity into the digital space. This video features the game PONK which combines touchless and tangible gameplay. Powered by Kinect, PONK creates a new digital experience by providing an interactive platform combining a 2D playground and 3D real, reactive elements. [...]
Continue reading...BMW 1 Series: Projection Mapping Racing Game
26. January 2012
BMW South Africa recently created an interactive projection mapping experience for the new 1 Series, in the form of a social racing game. The experience was projected to an area of just over 100sqm and allowed participants to play via Galaxy tablets after connecting with Facebook. Players times were posted to the real-time Facebook leaderboard [...]
Continue reading...Xbox Kinect: Dancify Yourself Mobile App
23. January 2012
There is a growing trend towards launching promo mobile apps for console games which I’m not sure every buys into just yet, but when you see an example like this from AKQA for Dance Central 2 (the sequel to the most popular Xbox Kinect game) you’ll soon realise the potential for fun-based feature apps and [...]
Continue reading...Canal+ Borgia 360 Multi-Device Experience
17. December 2011
The Canal+ Borgia TV series is the world’s first 360 degree narrative that works seamlessly across your desktop, iPad and iPhone to provide a complete experience. The campaign has already picked up a number of awards, and aims to pull new viewers into the brand new show about a family worse than the Mafia, and [...]
Continue reading...Honda: HTML5 Chain Reactions Challenge
25. November 2011
So this is a super clever HTML5 site from Honda. It’s called “The Experiment” and is essentially a lab where you can play with all sorts of objects in a physics-based game that challenges you to complete that chain reaction using a set of objects by placing them in the correct sequence. Each of the [...]
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