Thursday, 17 February 2011

Dead Island: Official Announcement Trailer

A non-linear first-person shooter in which you find yourself on an island plunged into chaos. Like most zombie games you find yourself as one of the last remaining survivors in a horrendous nightmare.

This is the violent struggle of Dead Island, a holiday resort infested by the living dead.  With no abundance of guns or explosives players are forced into hand to hand combat with these blood thirsty opponents. With the ability to turn normal everyday objects into zombie smashing tools of destruction you must prepare for a desperate fight and also be careful as your weapons deteriorate and become blunt.

The Techland developers are obviously passionate about the setting and storyline they've created, watch the chilling Dead Island trailer to see its full glory. This trailer is breathtaking with top quality graphics and a well created trailer it leaves you wanting to see more.

Dead Island Trailer



The player starts of as a guest of a hotel on holiday which turns into a living nightmare. The storyline is a group of remaining survivors set out to escape the island and get to freedom.  Dead Island is a story-based experience but has the ability for co-operative play, which up to four gamers can drop in and out of the game without a glitch.

The storyline and graphics is not the only thing to keep the player interested. The players traits will also improve as you smash and slash your way through the game. Not many details have been released but apparently there will be a levelling system and a skill tree. As the player progresses, his stats will increase and he'll gain access to new combat abilities and animations.

Dead Island Game Features
  • Realistic combat
  • An advanced Artificial Life System that allows players to take advantage of instinctive behaviors of groups and individual opponents
  • Non-linear gameplay
  • Fully interactive environments
Dead Island Links
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    Tuesday, 15 February 2011

    Direct Bikes Road Trip

    Matt from Direct Bikes went on a road trip of gigantic scale using his 125cc Tommy scooter. He started from Florence Italy and travelled all the way to London UK, which is over 1000 miles.


    Matt and his scooter had to take on an array of terrain from the frozen Mont Blanc to the dangerous snowy conditions of the Alps mountain range. If you would like to hear about Matts journey watch this short video on Direct Bikes.

    Monday, 24 January 2011

    Got 15 Mins Spare? Watch these videos

    As more people want to get their video popular for commecial or personal use more and more viral videos are popping up online. The videos I have watched in the last month have been funny, interesting & intense and I have listed some of the best below, can you see a trend?

    Cookie Monster vs Ragga Twins
    Looks like Cookie's been on the old disco biscuits again!



    Every Arnold Scream From Every Arnold Movie
    Created by Oliver Noble for: http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/



    Dramatic Cat



    Homemade Russian Bungee Jump
    I wonder if they tested it out with a dummy first?



    Kilian Martin: A Skate Regeneration



    Monster Truck Rally



    Wednesday, 22 December 2010

    Interesting Links for December

    Here are some blog post and interesting sites I found in December:

    The 10 Craziest Offices Around
    Ever thought of brightening up your office with a slide? Or perhaps a fairground carousel? Nobody would do that you say, that would be a ridiculous! Well, think again.

    The Best Christmas Parties….Ever
    The festive season is here and talk around the water cooler has turned to the Christmas party. If all you are expecting is a few curly sandwiches, warm wine and entertainment from the worst behaved employees, come and dream of what could be.

    Twisted Sifter
    The best of the Web, sifted, sorted, and summarized.

    Zane Lowe FM
    Zane Lowe Playlists & Tracklisting. Download, listen to or buy tracks that Zane Lowe played on BBC radio 1.

    Thursday, 28 October 2010

    Short film by produced by a fellow colleague Rosie Box

    This is a short film co-written and produced by the 99moves copywriter, Rosie Box. It stars Louie Jenkins as a young boy who discovers a stash of money and heads off on an adventure. A heart-warming tale which is in the process of being entered into film festivals.

    It’s a story of a boy who finds a large sum of money and does what every other little boy would, find the nearest sweet shop. The boy was played by Louie Jenkins, who did an remarkable job for an adult let alone a 10 year old. The sweet shop was owned by Keith and Gill Simms at Truly Scrumptious.

    Source: YouTube: Sweet

    Thursday, 7 October 2010

    Hire Me - Dr Syntax (New Single)

    Dr Syntax is back with a new single called Hire Me.



    Dr Syntax - Hire Me a B-Side Production DIGITAL SINGLE AVAILABLE NOW Bandcamp - http://drsyntax.bandcamp.com iTunes - http://bit.ly/bM8GjG Amazon - http://amzn.to/dgvCap 7Digital - http://bit.ly/c3yrdQ HMV - http://bit.ly/bo7uDo Tesco - http://bit.ly/c6cSBr Play.com - http://bit.ly/aCXv5U Napster - http://bit.ly/dda6n8 Beatport - http://bit.ly/d8uxnG Juno - http://bit.ly/c9lM1p Track It Down - http://bit.ly/c04zpV

    99moves the video SEO company

    99moves have created a short film on video SEO and the benefits of using it. Marketing videos in search engines can be really beneficial and great branding. You can get videos on your own site, Facebook and most video sharing sites to appear in the search engines.

    The 99moves video is well made and puts a strong case together for video SEO so I really recommend giving it a watch and thinking whether you should be doing video SEO.




    So why do Video SEO?

    Video has been a main part of the web for years with users sharing and uploading content, which marketers have latched onto and use for promoting a number of different things.

    “20 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute” Source: Mashable. But until now Video SEO hasn’t been thought off or even understood. The method of getting videos to rank high in search remains puzzling at best, aggravating at worst.

    It’s easy to upload videos to YouTube nearly anyone can do it. With so many videos uploaded it is easy for your video to be lost in the mass of data, this is where video seo can come in. By optimising, building links etc to your video like you would with the SEO on your site you can not only just appear in YouTube for key phrases but you can appear in Google, Bing etc as well. This will increase the exposure of your video and give you maximum visibility.

    The benefits of ranking high in Google are obvious but ranking a video in Google can be even more beneficial. If you look at a page of search results and you have your video appearing above the web page results this can be very appealing to the eye and attract a lot of clicks.

    Here is an example of one of the 99moves case studies and what benefits it brings:

    Magicard is one of 99moves clients and they have a video on a HoloKote Tool they created. They wanted this to rank for the key phrase “ID Card Security” which they don’t target on their site. So 99moves uploaded the video to YouTube applied some SEO optimisation and achieved 1st position for this phrase.

    Below is a screenshot or alternatively you can search [ID Card Security] on Google:




    They now have their logo appearing top of the search results and even if you don’t click and view their video you have noticed their logo which is great brand awareness. This is also more likely to be picked up and embedded on sites and shared around the web.
    Video SEO could be used in many different campaigns such as:
    • Trailers for films and music albums
    • Politician’s campaigns
    • Promoting brands & products
    • Viral campaigns
    • And lots more.
    Watch this for help with implementing Video SEO:
    http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-for-video-content

    Here are some articles that are also helpful:
    http://www.zeta.net/video-marketing/marketing-with-youtube.html
    http://www.markdulisse.com/blog/seo/video-seo-best-practices/