Halo: Legends is one of those ‘is it an ad?’ compilation movies (see Batman: Gotham Knight or The Animatrix for other examples of this) which takes a popular character or mythology from one universe and hands it over to several artists to re-interpret. Halo: Legends does at least as good a job as the aforementioned examples at extending the backstory of Master Chief and the Covenant, using some stellar animation and surprisingly mature storytelling (for the most part) to both excite existing fans and bring new ones into the fold (coincidentally right before the release of the upcoming story-driven installment of Halo called Halo: Reach). The film is split into six parts; each one a distinct short film with its own plot, while using Master Chief and the Halo universe as a common theme.
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Pure Digital Technologies Inc. isn’t the most well known of brands. Ask people what they make and most wouldn’t know but show them a Flip Video camera and they’re instantly interested. Its quite a nice lineup of products they’ve got with a very focused direction; simplicity in photography. The Flip Video series has been tremendously well received by bloggers and social media aficionados but yet the brand, in Canada at least, is relatively unknown.With a value price point and a solid product you would think the original Flip Video cameras would be tremendously popular but soon after their release in Canada they started to show their age in as much as they did not support high definition. By that point it was fast becoming a necessity. The cameras promoted their Easy-To-YouTube abilities so then once YouTube began to support HD footage, the lack of HD in the Flip cameras became the elephant in the room. 
If you find that your clean white bathroom to be disappointingly free of suggestions of murder and not looking enough like a crime scene you can now lay your mind at ease. Why go through the trouble of seducing a house guest and brutally murdering them in the shower just to accomplish that certain rouge aesthetic? Now you can get this Blood Bath Shower Curtain and Bath mat to satisfy your most Hitchcockian urges without having to even pick up a kitchen knife. Talk about modern convenience! Our only suggestion would be to make it water reactive so that pigmentation only became visible when wet, for that added sense of surprise
Who doesn’t love Wallace & Gromit? Nobody worth knowing, thats who. Their claymation adventures are charming fun and they are back with more, this time as episodic games in the spirit of the classic point-and-click adventure games equally beloved by all. It seems like a winning combination and now they’re inaugural escapade, Fright of the Bumblebees, has landed on Xbox Live Arcade by Telltale games. 
Well branding synergy is going to unexpected heights (or arguably depths) these days. There is a new live action Transformers pending release in North America. Of course a blockbuster like this demands a copious cross-media brand saturation campaign. This used to mean advertisements on the TV, billboards, newspapers, bus shelters, et cetera. Nowadays this extends to include M&Ms. Somehow the marketing wizards at Mars Snackfood Us have come up with limited-edition M&M’s Strawberried Peanut Butter Chocolate Candies and Snickers Nougabot Bar. Yes I said Limited Edition. I don’t think these come in sequentially numbered packages but just be aware that they wont be making these ad infinitum, in case you were wondering. Lets just hope that after eating this stuff your digestive system doesn’t experience any ‘revenge of the fallen.’
