Showing posts with label games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label games. Show all posts

Monday, April 5, 2010

RECRUITMENT WEBSITE - NSFW: Is This The Most Violent Recruitment Site In Japan?

Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, known for his dark sense of humor, is opening a new game development studio called Tango. His new recruitment flash minigame features Mikami being beheaded and the goal is to send his head flying as far as possible with a wide range of outcomes.
With messages like "Join us in Japan! Now hiring!" sprouting from dialogue boxes from the severed head as it is launched through the air, it is certainly a different approach from what you normally come across.
Here is the link to the site: http://mikami-project.com/
To play, you click the left button once to start and then again when the power gauge is at its best.

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Thursday, November 19, 2009

NONTRADITIONAL - Gaming works magic for u.s. army

Brandflakes for Breakfast and Game Politics posted articles about the Army's use of their video game, America's Army, and how is has been used as a recruitment tool and how effective it has been in relation to other areas of advertising. Game Politics also makes a note at the impact the video game has had on recruits as far as how they react in battle and their how they receive and understand what is happening in battle as well.

Below are the links for the articles as well as the gaming site. Check them out and tell us what you think!

http://www.brandflakesforbreakfast.com/2009/11/gaming-works-magic-for-us-army.html

http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/11/17/america%E2%80%99s-army-extremely-effective-recruitment-tool

http://www.americasarmy.com/