Dracula Wants Your Blood, Southern California

Dracula teaming up with the Red Cross? Can you say dream team? Encore Software is celebrating last month's release of their PC mystery adventure game Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon, with a Dracula Blood Drive. The event is taking place October 3rd and 4th in either different locations throughout Los Angeles and Orange Counties, with donors being entered in a drawing to win a copy of the game and various other prizes. While many of you have never heard of the game, to quote an imaginary out-of-touch 80's marketing executive, "Giving blood is rad, dudes!" More »

Hey, LA, Mercs 2 Will Buy You (Real) Gas Today

Live in LA? Drive an automobile? Call it gas, and not petroleum? Oh boy is this your lucky day. Starting at 6am today (so SOON), the Mobil at 8489 Beverly Blvd will be taken over by EA. They'll be there to shill Mercenaries 2. There'll be attendants dressed up as mercenaries, there'll probably be all kinds of various promotion materiel lying around, but most important of all: there'll be free gas. Yup. Free. Gas. There's a statement to be had about gas, American consumer culture and the resource-driven conflict that drives Mercenaries 2's storyline somewhere in all this, but really, it'll be lost amidst the fact EA are practically giving away money. More »

Video Games Live To Perform At E For All

E For all is really starting to become a force to be reckoned with. First came the announcement of Nintendo as an anchor exhibitor, then Sony got in to the mix and now Video Games Live will be making a special appearance at the new expo. Video Games Live will be the first event to take place at the Nokia Theater in LA's all new "LA Live", an entertainment hub which is being described as the "Times Square of the West." More »

Nintendo Invades E for All

Nintendo today announced that they are going to be an "anchor exhibitor" for IDG World's Entertainment for All Expo slated to hit the Los Angeles Convention Center this October. More »