Month: November 2010

After A few mindless hours stumbling around my fellow classmates blog’s on the intrawebs, I came across something very interesting on Alicia’s Blog . A website called Uncrate. This blog features anything, and everything, that a man could want. Everything from Clothes, Music, Cars, Games and Gadgets are available for purchase on this site.  It has recently become my mourning medication and one stop shop for all my masculine needs.

Every week day five new and equally awesome items are added to the blog. With full descriptions and reviews on each. This is a great tool with brings awareness to numerous items, and generate great publicity around items which would never normally make it into many consumers hands.
By linking the Posts to numerous shopping websites like ebay or amazon people are actually able to purchase the items they read about directly through the website.

The newest installment in the Call of Duty video game franchise “Black-Ops” was released just recently on November 9th.  Whenever a blockbuster video game comes out the gaming world goes nuts.  This is mostly encouraged by the commercials and media and overall hype surrounding the game. Black-Ops has managed to take this one step further.

There newest commercial, which features talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel and NBA star Kobe Bryant depicts these two, as well as many other random everyday people in a live action, all out, epic military battle. The commercial concludes with the tag-line “There’s a soldier in all of us.”(There’s a soldier in all of us.)

Not only have the commercial’s been superb but Activision (The company responsible for the Call of Duty franchise) has gone one step further.  They have partnered with Jeep.  Not only will this vehicle that represents toughness and all round badass-ery be featured numerous times in the game   but Jeep will also produce a limited edition Black-Ops Jeep Wrangler, Jeeps most popular vehicle.

Activision has managed to outdo itself ounce again as publicity, as well as sales of its new game skyrocket. If the imaginary stories and worlds  in video games can now create their real-world vehicle equivalents, I can only Imagine what will come next