EA's "Dead Space" Goes Viral
Suicide Girls just learned of NoKnownSurvivors, a new viral experience that allows visitors to explore the narrative world of EA's new survival horror game, DEAD SPACE. Over the next couple months the site will employ interactive components, 3D, voice acting, video and Papervision to tell two tragic four chapter stories. The first, "Misplaced Affection", is the story of an organ replacement technician who falls hard for a female security officer. The second, "13", will tell the tale of a sleeper agent who makes the wrong decisions.
You can view it all at the haunting NoKnownSurvivors content hub. It looks to be pretty vast and wide-reaching - beginning with 9 severed body parts, each one representing a chapter. Each week before a chapter goes live, its assigned body part begins to mutate, finally evolving in to a mature necromorph part (necromorphs are re-animated, mutated corpses of fallen crew members).
Each Monday (it started last week on August 25th) a new necromorph part will be live and clickable. The second chapter just launched this past Monday - so head on over and check it out. SG also will have some exclusive content from NoKnownSurvivors coming soon.
EA apparently has a lot of eggs in the Dead Space basket and the game landscape is due for some good dark suspense and anti-gravity guts right about now. Dead Space comes out on October 21st.
IGN's feature on NoKnownSurvivors.
Lonelygirl15, Danielbeast and YouTube
Lonelygirl15 is every nerd boys dream. She is drop dead gorgeous, ferociously well read, interested in science and geek humor, and here's the clincher: she has repressive, religious parents who have home-schooled her and so she doesn't know she's hot or that you're a social pariah and undesirable.
Lonelygirl15 has only one friend in the world, Danielbeast. He is the awkward nerdboy who has hit the lottery in finding the homeschooled geekgirl with the supermodel looks.
As the two teens chronicle their lives on YouTube we see everything from music videos to angst at parental decisions to a budding romance between them.
Every week there is a new dramatic development between them that gets hashed out in their uploaded videos. They play like a teen drama directed by Zach Braff, with episode titles like "Daniel called my religion weird!" "My Parents won't let us go for a hike!"
But are these two for real? What religion is Lonelygirl15? Is this another internet stealth marketing campaign or a genuine look into two teens lives?
Before you decide watch all the videos on this "fan site", which was registered and set up a month before lonelygirl15 uploaded her first video to YouTube.