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Dumb Ways to Die Is Now a Video Game for the iPhone and iPad McCann Australia extends beloved train-safety ad

There are now even more "Dumb Ways to Die"—and smart ways to live—as McCann Australia has made a video game out of its beloved, superviral train-safety ad from last year.…

May 17, 2013, 2:38 PM EDT

Game Maker Fills Pool With 55,000 Gallons of Blood and Guts, Invites You to Swim in It Latest Resident Evil nastiness

There's a bunch of genetic meddling going on in the new video game Resident Evil Revelations. It may stand to reason, then, that marketer Capcom would stage a wholly unnatural…

May 14, 2013, 2:37 PM EDT

Masked Warriors Primp and Pose in Teaser Trailer for Call of Duty: Ghosts Latest Activision ad by 72andSunny

There are knights in armor, Aztec warriors, ninjas, samurai and special ops commandos outside. There goes the neighborhood! This trailer by 72andSunny (and director Mark Romanek from Anonymous Content) for…

May 2, 2013, 9:07 AM EDT

J.B. Smoove Joins Peter Stormare as Replacer Wingman for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Sequel in a great series

Activision needed some high-impact firepower to tout its downloadable Black Ops 2: Uprising content, which is set for release next week on Xbox 360. Two riotous "replacers" answered the Call…

April 10, 2013, 9:14 AM EDT

William Shatner Battles the Gorn Once Again in Ad for Star Trek Video Game Both guys have seen better days

Gorn … but not forgotten! To promote a Star Trek video game launching this month, William Shatner and a guy in a lumpy lizard suit winningly reprise Captain Kirk's hand-to-claw…

April 1, 2013, 9:56 AM EDT

Tiger Woods and Arnold Palmer Deliver a Kung-Fu Ass Kicking in EA's New Golf Ad Guess who's more charming?

Tiger Woods is a golf nerd, right? Right. But in fantasy video-game land, he destroys you and all your hoodlum friends, fake kung-fu style, because you're trying to steal his…

March 26, 2013, 3:28 PM EDT

Google Chrome Turns Any Website Into a 3-D Marble Maze Game Winning diversion from Google Japan

Google's latest innovation in time-wasting fun—this time out of Japan—is the Chrome World Wide Maze, a browser experiment that turns any Web page of your choosing into a 3-D marble…

March 25, 2013, 2:53 PM EDT

Samsung's Unicorn Apocalypse Game Is Now Real, Although Apparently It Sucks Maybe the film will be better?

Samsung's Unicorn Apocalypse, the fictional game featured in half a dozen ads that aired on the Oscars, was always begging to be defictionalized—and now it has been. Samsung held a…

March 13, 2013, 12:14 PM EDT

PETA Urges Better Treatment of Arthropodal Killing Machines in Video Game Please be nice to the Zerg

PETA is planning to hand out anti-abuse pamphlets at the launch of StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, urging gamers to respect the game's pixelated extraterrestrials known as The Zerg.…

March 13, 2013, 9:51 AM EDT

Trailer for Sims 3 University Life Reenacts Popular Photo Memes And Reddit doesn't even hate it that much

There's nothing new about marketers trying their hand at popular Internet memes. But Electronic Arts takes a pretty clever stab at it in the new trailer for The Sims 3…

March 12, 2013, 12:40 PM EDT

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