NBC Comic-Con Sweepstakes for The Event and The Cape Dan Koelsch, July 15, 2010 NBC’s FanIt initiative takes audience participation to a whole new level. By helping to promote shows by using social networks and other fun activities, you win points. What do those points get you? Well, for one, a chance to get VIP status at Comic-Con panels for new shows The Event…
ARGFest’s Urgent Plea For Sponsors Dan Koelsch, July 13, 2010 We’ve talked a little about ARGFest here at MovieViral, the yearly conference that features games and speakers all focused on Alternate Reality Games and transmedia. This year’s event is this week, but it looks like the costs of running the event are a bit higher than expected. Read the official…
Piranha 3D Pulled From Comic-Con – UPDATE: Now Offsite Dan Koelsch, July 13, 2010September 3, 2010 We’ve been covering the NSFW Piranha 3D viral campaign pretty extensively, so this news is sort of a bummer. The (probably) cheesy horror flick was scheduled to screen some footage at San Diego Comic-Con this year, but now it looks like it’s too hot for the con. Get the details…
Tron Legacy Postcards Reveal Japanese Encom Website, New Game, and Countdown To Comic-Con Dan Koelsch, July 12, 2010October 18, 2011 More postcards were sent out this week for the Tron Legacy viral campaign, and it looks those coded strips actually DO mean something. Thanks to the work of Unfiction members, we now have a new website in the campaign, which features another simple (yet difficult!) flash game from our friends…
Comic-Con Sunday Programming Schedule Announced Dan Koelsch, July 11, 2010 Comic-Con International is releasing their daily schedules for San Diego Comic-Con exactly two weeks before each day occurs, so today we have the Sunday July 25th schedule. Sunday is Kids Day, so there are plenty of featured programs for the young ones . After the jump we’ll highlight a few…