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Aguatero Industries: Message in a Bottle, or SOS to the World?
Earlier today, I received a package containing a message in a bottle from Aguatero Industries. The company was so excited to announce its expansion into the Las Vegas and Los Angeles markets, it sent...
View ArticleThe Secret Is Out There: Coca Cola Creator Doc Pemberton Stars in “Secret...
The Coca Cola Company has enlisted the aid of Wieden+Kennedy, Portland to create an integrated marketing campaign exploring the history and mythology behind Doctor John Stith Pemberton, the inventor...
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Coming Soon: New Online Experience from JC Hutchins
This week science fiction thriller writer and transmedia novelist JC Hutchins announced on his blog the start of a “groundbreaking fiction experience” that will be free and completely online. The...
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Fourth Wall Studios Experience Infusion of Cash, Talent
Earlier today, Fourth Wall Studios announced it received an initial $15 million round of financing from Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, along with access to a fund of up to $200 million through the...
View Article42 Entertainment Involved in Potential ARG for Wrigley
Last week, cryptic print advertisements started to appear pointing readers to the TestSubjectsNeeded.com website. In last week’s issue of the comic Flashpoint, morse code led the way. In the Seattle...
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Haxan Films Returns to Blair Witch Roots with “Lovely Molly”
It’s been over 13 years since Haxan Films screened its debut film The Blair Witch Project at Sundance. And while the “found footage” format used in the film quickly established its place as a cult...
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A Comic-Con Preview: SHIELD Returns for “Item 47″
Image via Marvel.com On the Fourth of July, Marvel Entertainment released its “second screen” app for The Avengers DVD, two months prior to the release of the DVD itself. The Avengers Initiative: A...
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An Ornithological Puzzle Worth Tweeting About
One of my favorite moments in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail is when the Bridgekeeper asks King Arthur, “what is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?” The film never answers that...
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New Star Trek Trailer Hides Question: Are You the 1701?
Yesterday, Paramount released its newest movie trailer for Star Trek: Into Darkness on iTunes. As the second film in JJ Abrams’ re-imagining of Gene Roddenberry’s original franchise, fans have been...
View ArticleTelevision and Gaming Merge in Defiance for Transmedia War Zone
Over the years, Rockne S. O’Bannon has transformed more than a few science fiction projects into cult classics: O’Bannon helped shape the futuristic worlds depicted in properties including Alien...
View ArticleBringing Cronenberg’s Films to Life with Body Mind Change
Game enthusiasts are all about the games they play being “realistic,” with higher resolution graphics and smarter AIs. One of the more alluring features of alternate reality games is their ability to...
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ARG Behind Tim Kring’s New Show DIG, Decoded
Emma Wilson’s journal, on digdecoded.com The premiere of Dig, Tim Kring and Gideon Raff’s newest thriller on USA Network, DIG, is only two weeks away. But in many ways, the 10-episode series remains an...
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Pokémon Go into the Wild with Niantic’s Latest Game
Three years ago, Google’s Niantic Labs released Ingress. Since the game’s launch, a lot has changed. The Ingress playerbase has swelled from a couple thousand beta testers to more than 12 million...
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Lonelygirl16? Here’s What You Might Have Missed
Ten years ago, Bree Avery started vlogging on a relatively new social platform called YouTube. To celebrate that milestone, a new video was uploaded to her channel yesterday. So, let’s try something a...
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Getting to Know The Tension Experience Before It Gets to Know You
The Tension Experience is an immersive experience that is part game, part theater, part something extremely hard to put a finger on. Tension does not cater to the weak… It’s themes run towards horror...
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A Tale of Two Trailheads: Charity Kong and the Golden Age Conspiracy
In Seattle, a jodhpur-clad man wanders into a Seattle corner shop, using strips of gold foil as currency in order to send messages using the shop’s antiquated Telex machine. In Indianapolis, Golden Age...
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ARG or Not, Please Don’t Send Me Creepy Dolls
Twelve years ago, science fiction author and podcast fiction phenomenon JC Hutchins received an envelope in the mail, sealed with a red wax stamp bearing the letters “tb”, and containing a message...
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CATAN – World Explorers Takes Popular Game Off Tables, Into Streets
Following Niantic’s breakout hit Ingress in 2012, the company has gone on a world tour of adapting beloved properties for the location-based gaming landscape. 2016 saw the release of Pokémon GO,...
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Sneak in Some Free Virtual RECON for Escape Room Con
In August 2021, a collective of escape room creators, reviewers, and enthusiasts will converge in Boston for Reality Escape Convention (RECON), a two-day long convention dedicated to the escape room...
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Searching For Higher Power with Coldplay’s Alien Radio
In New York City, a digital billboard featuring an alien language popped up over the CVS at the corner of Broadway and 49th Street. Similar advertisements around the world. A subway advertisement at...
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