Yalp

Ok...so there really is an interactive There Will Be Blood milkshake drinking thing. I might as well just tell you some of other entertainment properties I know of getting the interactive treatment, primarily in a mobile and/or casual form, in the future:
1 vs. 100
30 Rock
The Amazing Race
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader 2nd Edition
Beauty and the Geek
Burn Notice
Chuck
CSI: NY
Doctor Who
Entourage
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Foodfight!
General Hospital
Get Smart
Goal!
Gossip Girl
Grey's Anatomy
Hancock
Harold & Kumar
How I Met Your Mother
Kyle XY
Monk
The Moment of Truth
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Psych
Rambo
Reno 911!
Samantha Who?
Sesame Street
Sex in the City The Movie
The Simpsons
The Singing Bee (although, this might be Don't Forget the Lyrics, but I'm pretty sure it's this one)
So You Think You Can Dance
Ugly Betty
You Don't Mess with the Zohan

Hogtown

1) Next year's Star Wars MMO, not being developed by Sony Online Entertainment, will launch simultaneously for PC and consoles alongside the debut of the first Star Wars TV series in fall 2009 (or 2010 or whenever), of which the storylines of the game will tie into. Those Artistic Lucases already have a second online title planned that I've heard has nothing to do with Star Wars.
2) Road to Sunday - football + Grand Theft Auto = one bizarre game called This Is Vegas
3) Yeah, Boom Blox is not only as amazing as it looks, but is this year's best Wii game. If you have a Wii and like puzzle games, Mark Mothersbaugh and/or content sharing, I recommend playing this.
4) That Shrek game is a music game, an absurd music game.

Andy informs us of the following pertinent information:
Elsewhere, after a new study revealed that cannabis causes gum disease, singer Amy Winehouse said, “That’s why I’m sticking with crack.”

Shermer

weissmuller. The title that Randy Pitchford was hyping today a video game adaptation of Willa Cather's One of Ours featuring a science-fiction twist and is set in the Halo universe.
barker. For the Blu-Ray release of There Will Be Blood, Backbone Entertainment is working on "an epic milkshake drinking adventure" that will feature the likeness of Daniel Day-Lewis, it will take up an estimated 5GB and feature at least twenty hours of slurping action, plus multiplayer. A demo of this will be available on XBLA and PSN.
scott. Fox Searchlight, Crave Entertainment and 7 Studios are collaborating once again for Juno: The Video Game, the most realistic teenage pregnancy simulation to date, for Playstation 3, Xbox 360, PC, and Wii. Crave could not get Ellen Page for the game, so in her place will be Jamie-Lynn Spears. For portable fans, a track-and-field title set in the Junoverse will hit DS and PSP.

Also, if you get the chance to interview Jamie-Lynn Spears, please ask the following:
"Hey Jamie-Lynn Spears, you've had a show on Nickelodeon, someone got you pregnant, what's next?"
Regardless of her response, print the following as her response:
"A romantic comedy?"

UPDATE: Okay, so there's apparently some truth to two of these stories, which proves I'm terrible at making up things.

UPDATE TWO: There is no Juno game, despite what people say.

sttnw nonsense

In case you don't know, I have another blog entitled such things that never was.

Over there, I post about the worst television network idea ever, an attempted King's Quest re-boot, terrible re-inventions of Joust, Freelancer 2, Activision using Nintendo's IP without Nintendo's permission, System Shock 3, how Road to Sunday started as NFL Gameday 2005, and expand a list of eighteen games to forty amongst other things.

The Bill Matthews-Blackwater Slander Machine Rolls On

From The News & Observer:

Marshall Adame should be the sort of Congressional candidate Blackwater would get behind. He's a retired Marine. He's worked in Iraq for the State Department and for The Sandi Group Intl., a military contractor. Both his sons have served with the Army in Iraq.

But he spoke his mind online: "I have interacted with many mercenary groups, including Blackwater. There is no place in the American force structure, or in American culture for mercenaries. They are guns for hire; No more, no less. The primary motivation is money. In most cases it does not matter who's money. Private Security Organizations as extensive as Blackwater, for example, should not be allowed to operate in war zones as augments of the United States of America. Private Armies represent the very things we depise as a people. Servants to the highest bidder with true allegiance to no-one."

This generated nastygrams from Blackwater supporters, after Blackwater VP Bill Mathews sent out the following email:

All:

There is a man named Marshall Adame who is running for congress in our district. He just put a quote online which says he wants this company and all of us to cease to exist.

Do you like your jobs? Are you sick and tired of the slanderous bullshit going on in DC?

If so, would you all mind joining me in reminding Mr. Adame that he is running for office in our backyard. Tell all your friends and family too. We welcome their assistance in making this point very clear to Mr. Adame……

Anyone who wants to send a letter may do so at the following address…..

[address redacted]

His email is [redacted]

He was too cowardly to put a phone number on the web. I ask that you keep your comments to Mr. Adame professional (well, mostly professional). We help him if our comments get threatening or too crass. Let’s run this goof out of Dodge….!

Bill Mathews
Executive Vice President
Blackwater Worldwide
850 Puddin Ridge Road
Moyock, NC 27958

I find the lack of Billy's phone number disturbing.

I completely endorse Marshall Adams, he is the sort of patriot that should be in Congress.