GIVE!
Cash donations do allow the agencies to avoid the need to store, pack, and distribute donated goods. The cost to do so becomes prohibitive which is why cash donations are currently being sought.
FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency www.fema.gov) listed the following agencies as needing cash to assist hurricane victims:
- American Red Cross, 800-HELP NOW (435-7669) English, 800-257-7575 Spanish.
- Operation Blessing, 800-436-6348.
- America's Second Harvest, 800-344-8070.
- Adventist Community Services, 800-381-7171.
- Catholic Charities, USA, 703-549-1390.
- Christian Disaster Response, 941-956-5183 or 941-551-9554.
- Christian Reformed World Relief Committee, 800-848-5818.
- Church World Service, 800-297-1516.
- Convoy of Hope, 417-823-8998.
- Lutheran Disaster Response, 800-638-3522.
Mobile Games are the future
Will the next gen. game consoles win or fail? With high price tags, rehashed and souped up games, and $70 a piece for titles...will everyone go mobile? More and more games are being developed for cell phones. There are over 30million cell phones in the US alone and mobile gaming is becoming very popular. With Nintendo and Sony in a battle for handheld's will a cell phone company sneak in under the wire and trump them both. It could very well happen. Old school titles such as like Pac-Man and Dig-Dug continue to sell well on the mobile market. Marc Ecko's new game "Getting Up" is already been translated for cell phone play. And with AOL recently acquiring a mobile gaming company have the major game companies shot them selves in the foot when there's evidence that the market is swinging in a different direction. Already stated this week more College Students have cell phone and play games on them. Also in another report release this week stated that younger kids want games for their PC. And several interactive entertainment veterans most recently from EA's Black Box created a new development studio called Deep Fried ENT. The company will develop titles for the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP. So maybe it's time to see the game developers finally pay attention to the market insted of trying to sell us a new box with old tricks.
Save New Orleans
http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate/http://www.amazon.com/gp/philanthropy/red-cross.html/102-3806668-9292955Help save a life and help save New Orleans...it must be rebuilt. If you've ever taken a trip to the big easy then you must show your love and show your support in the effots to save lives and rebuild. Make a donation.
Lil' Flip vs Pac Man
Sony BMG Music and video game maker Namco settled their differences over Lil’ Flip’s “Game Over,” which samples sounds from the PacMan arcade game. Apparently Pac Man thought he should get some money from rapper Lil' Flip cause he was an O.G. Pac Man said he was going to pop a cap in dat ass if he ain't get no money. The details of the deal were not made public, according to the press, but both Lil' Flip and Pac Man where reportedly satisfied with the deal. In the suit, filed one year ago in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Namco claimed that its intellectual property was violated by the sampling of the classic video game. Originally released in 1980, PacMan is, according to Namco, the “most popular arcade game of all time.”
Black Video Game Characters: Barrett from Final Fantasy 7
| Barrett Wallace |
Job: Leader of AVALANCHE
Age: 35
Weapon: Gun-Arm
Height: 197 cm
Birthdate: December 15
Birthplace: Corel Village
Head of the underground resistance movement AVALANCHE. Barrett is fighting the mega conglomerate Shinra, Inc. which has monopolized Mako energy, building special reactors to suck it out of the planet. Barrett depends on brute-strength and his Gun-Arm to see him through. His wife died in an accident several years ago, and he now lives with his daughter Marlene. |
Namco acquires rights to publish Afro Samurai
The US division of Namco announced that it has acquired the publishing rights to Afro Samurai; GDH’s hip-hop samurai infused manga. The deal permits Namco to publish two games over the next five years. In addition to these games, Afro Samurai will become an animated mini-series with Samuel L. Jackson signed on as lead voice actor and co-producer—a live-action film is also in the works.
Reebok Reaches Out to PSP-ers With Site
It's only been a week since Sony released the firmware that lets Playstation Portable (PSP) users browse the Web via Wi-Fi. Already, Reebok has launched a site to market the sneaker maker's wares via the new platform.
Reebok's head start comes in part from its relationship with interactive agency Zugara. The Los Angeles-based creative shop also does work for Sony's Playstation brand.
"[The firmware upgrade] was released in Japan about two months ago, so we've been toying around with this since then," Matt Szymczyk, CEO of Zugara, told ClickZ News. "We've had about two months to play around with it and figure out what will work and what won't work -- what would be the best in terms of usability."
The site, at rbk.com/psp, serves as a sort of PSP portal to all of Reebok's various campaigns, allowing device users to access content tailored to the PSP. Content includes wallpapers, themes, audio and video clips. So far, all of the elements are re-purposed from Reebok's Web campaigns, but the agency plans to watch usage and see if it would be worthwhile to create unique content for the device.
To tailor the content for the PSP, Zugara designed the site for the PSP's aspect ratio, avoided Flash, and kept video file sizes below five megabytes, for the most part.
"We're basically going back to the HTML roots and creating a site that would be easy to navigate and add content to," explained Szymczyk.
The agency plans to get the word out about the site by sending press releases to PSP-oriented sites like PSP Garden, PSP Home and Joystiq.
"We're going to leak it out slowly and hope it catches on," Szymczyk said.
The agency will gauge the site's success by measuring downloads of the various content elements.
