We have a new theme for the blog! Today I found a great theme that looks great and also has some social plugins that should help the blog get more links.

In game advertising is growing at a fast rate and the latest use is Mother’s day in game promotions. The promotions are added to the social games and then players can buy and visit the stores from within in there facebook and other social network games. Mother’s day has been a boost for this kind of advertising with revenues said to be $1 million dollars a day with flowers etc for Mother’s from in-game promotions.

To read more visit:

Social Game Publishers Hit Payday From Mother's Day Flower Offers

http://blogs.forbes.com/velocity/2010/02/23/eas-playfish-big-real-world-sales-in-virtual-goods-game/

I love augmented reality and any opportunity to show off another use is always welcome. So now Lego have added augmented reality to the boxes of products and using an in-store exhibit to show off what the contents make. The video is below.

Star Trek actor William Shatner has made a reported fortune from agreeing to take shares as part of his payment for being the face of priceline.com, an online travel company.

Now Wall Street is valuing the shares at $300 making Shatnar an estimated $600 million. Nice work.

http://uk.tv.yahoo.com/news-extra/article/4630/star-trek-stars-surprise-600-million-earningstodays-tv-gossip.html

AR drones have the tah line, when video games become reality. This is an iPhone controlled drone that flies around but controlled using your iPhone. There are also many other features. Looks like fun.

For more informatioin http://ardrone.parrot.com/parrot-ar-drone/en