Kotaku: Mountain Dew

Buy Bungie's Halo Soda Machine

Brian Crecente — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:00:14 MDT

The Bungie folks are auctioning off the Halo Mountain Dew vending machine that's been sitting in their office forever. The machine is signed and illustrated by the entire team and features Halo's Master Chief from the second game. The machine has never actually been used, so it's in terrific condition. All proceeds for the auction will go to The Make a Wish Foundation. If you're a HUGE Halo fan this is probably a one-of-a-kind get. The auction is currently at a whopping $15,000 and doesn't include the shipping charge, which is likely to set you back another $200 to $2,000 depending on where you live in the U.S.

If Bungie really loved children they'd throw in a steak dinner with Luke Smith.

Signed Halo Mountain Dew Vending Machine! [eBay]

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Mike Fahey — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:30:57 MDT

It's weird. Everyone at the Halo 3 launch here in NYC pretty much agrees that Mountain Dew Game Fuel is the most hideous thing to ever come out of the Mountain Dew scientists. At best, it's a mix of Code Red and Livewire. At worst, regurgitated original Mountain Dew mixed with Hostess cherry pies. Even so, they show up at the event and start handing out free shirts, doling out shot glasses full of the insidious liquid via marketing temps with ginormous backpacks, and suddenly everyone's going crazy. I had two cups myself. Two! I think you need to drink at least four to rank a free t-shirt, honoring your courage in the face of adversity. They even had 'Respawn' stations set up, where women were available to rub the kinks out of your hand, a statement that seems somehow jumbled, but really isn't.

The Halo 3 RSS Reader

fdemarco — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:00:00 MDT

The Halo 3 marketing steamroller has only just begun to chug to life an already we've begun to be inundated with every kind of product placement and cross promotion we can think of. It has it's own Zune, 360 model, action figures (or if they don't move, figurines or statuettes, take your pick), as well as promotions with such heavy hitters as Pontiac, Burger King, Comcast and 7- "we promote everything" 11. Mountain Dew has even gone so far as to create a new soda branded to the game. But, the good folks at Mountain Dew won't just be satisfied with filling your body with twenty times the caffeine in the name of video games, they want to help you read your favorite news headlines too.

Microsoft and Mountain Dew have teamed up to bring you the Halo 3 RSS Reader so you can now see what's happening around the web quickly, easily and Halo-y. Imagine the excitement as you file through your links with this awesome logo shaped reader with it's...

Ok, I'm done.

The Halo 3 RSS Reader [Xbox.com]
[via Major Nelson]

Master Chief Flavored Mountain Dew

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:40:02 MDT

Mountain Dew and the Xbox are no strangers. They've been cross promoting for years. But now, the super sugary soda tastes even more Microsofty, with this limited edition Halo 3 Game Fuel version that tastes less like early morning condensation from mountains and more like Master Chief. Yes, the mysterious Spartan is infamous for his citrus cherry blend of sweetness.

Thanks a billion to Master Keith for sending us pics. Michael McWhertor

Every Ten Minutes Winners Get Kameo Instead

lsmith — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:40:41 MST

GamersReports has a dead link to a Team Xbox forums post that said instead of an EA game, Every Ten Minutes Xbox 360 winners would land a copy of Kameo, in addition to the EA game (which will ship later). Pretty good deal for a prize system that was totally exploitable.

Honk If You're Horny [GamersReports]
Free Code for a Chance to Win Xbox 360

Free Code For a Chance to Win an Xbox 360

Brian Crecente — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:28:47 MDT

Get a free Xbox 360 code without having to buy Mountain Dew. Hop on over to to the EveryTenMinutes, the Mountain Dew site that will begin giving away an Xbox 360 every 10 minutes starting on Sunday, and download a Mountain Dew IMVironment from Yahoo!Messenger for your very own free code.

[Official Site]