Category Archives: Games

Contagious 2008 RoundUp

By Chungaiz | Published: January 8, 2009

The Contagious 2008 round up PDF has been released. A fantastic resource of all the cool things that happened in digital marketing in the widest possible sense. Review Obama’s campaign tactics, Radiohead’s House of Cards video and other music marketing, games like Little Big Planet and GTA IV, films like Dark Knight and Cloverfield, [...]

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Auditorium

By Chungaiz | Published: December 3, 2008

Auditorium is a lovely interactive music game, similar to Music Catch that we featured on TheScrapBook before. Control the flow of energy and fill up the bars in order to create a song. Go and explore it yourself.

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Video Games Not The Downfall of Society

By Chungaiz | Published: October 6, 2008

One of my favourite “marketing” books of recent years was called Everything Bad Is Good For You which, explores how popular culture entertainment (TV shows, games, reality shows etc) that is otherwise dismissed is in fact very powerful in shaping our modern thinking. Amongst other really interesting theories, it talks about “telescoping”. Telescoping is what [...]

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Wario Wii Experience On YouTube

By Chungaiz | Published: September 27, 2008

You kind of just have to go to the link, or I’ll spoil it for you! Brilliant fun though. http://www.youtube.com/experiencewii

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Music Catch

By Chungaiz | Published: September 27, 2008

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Augmented Reality

By Chungaiz | Published: September 12, 2008

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Iain Tait‘s got a load of really very interesting Augment Reality toys to play with. Not sure how useful most of them are, but hey it’s all interesting stuff. I mean, whilst it’s cool to have a video play on a piece of [...]

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Hip Hop and Chess Update: WuChess has launched

By Chungaiz | Published: June 4, 2008

Update on our previous post, but WuChess has now launched (damn, Ruby‘s good). For a fee of $48 per year, users can join and meet other like minded chess players. A portion of the fee goes to the Hip-Hop Chess Federation, with whom Rza often competes. You must think first before you move.

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Brands Using The Collective Wisdom Of Crowds

By Chungaiz | Published: June 4, 2008

I’ve come across a number of interesting crowdsourcing sites that use the Wisdom of Crowds rather nicely to help us understand what people really think about brands. Check out the following sites: Brand Tags Ask 500 People Also interesting to note is Dear Jane’s Fun With Brands posts that explore her interaction with brands throughout [...]

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Karl Lagerfeld Hosts Radio Station in Grand Theft Auto IV

By Chungaiz | Published: April 9, 2008

Karl Lagerfeld is killing it in social media terms – generating conversation about all sorts of things, from a mobile art museum with Zaha Hadid to an online tour of Coco Chanel’s appartment. Recent news from Hypebeast, WWD and PSFK talks of Karl’s radio station in Grand Theft Auto IV. From WWD: Players can pick [...]

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