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Microsoft Entices Gamers with a Hands-on Mall Program
To increase awareness of the Xbox 360 and its capabilities, and push trials and sales of games and systems, Microsoft hit 12 markets in two phases during the holiday season last year with a series of hands-on consumer experiences. Guests who passed near the footprint were encouraged to have “More Fun Today” by getting their...
Epic Screen Serves as Backdrop for Xbox E3 Media Briefing
For its E3 2014 media briefing presentation, Xbox staged an epic stage experience. An 80-foot center LED screen featured massive moving semi-transparent scenic doors that opened and closed to accommodate game trailers and demos. Three more LED screens stood angled to the floor as backgrounds for satellite multi-player demos and presenters. The show featured over...
Microsoft’s Game Launch Rivals Hollywood Premiere
If Halo 3 is one of the bestselling video games of all time, Halowood, its Beta Preview Launch, has to be one of the best celebrity parties ever. The launch party took over several Hollywood soundstages, transforming the space into a large-scale destination for celebrities, tastemakers and the media. From the exterior approach to the...
Microsoft Takes its Halo 3 Launch to New City Heights
The fans were already lined up at 5 a.m., waiting in sweaty anticipation for the stroke of midnight when they could be the first to get their hands on the last installment in the Halo trilogy, Halo 3. What hard-core fans didn’t know (other than what life was like outside their parents’ basement) is that...