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Alien Booth for the iPhone and iPod Touch magically transforms pictures of friends, family, coworkers or pets into amazing looking aliens and provides easy sharing over email, Facebook and Twitter social networks.

Rocket 5 Studios, an emerging independent game developer, today announced the release of their latest iPhone app, Alien Booth. The app features the ability to easily transform pictures of friends, family, coworkers and even pets into amazing looking aliens. Alien Booth is available on the iTunes App Store today for $0.99.

Using simple on-screen controls, create fun and realistic looking aliens from pictures taken with the iPhone camera or that are already stored in the iPhone, iPad or Touch photo library.

Internationally acclaimed creative think-tank, X Media Lab, has over the last seven years established itself as a digital media industry icon. In recognition of his contribution to China’s industry, the company’s founder, Brendan Harkin, has been awarded the International Contribution Award at the Fifth China Creative Industry Awards.

When Brendan Harkin established X Media Lab at the Sydney Opera House, his objective was clear: to create an international, industry-led forum that brings together the world’s outstanding creatives, executives and power-brokers to work as mentors with local companies on their own creative project ideas.

His commitment to this goal has now been acknowledged in China at the Fifth China Creative Industry Awards.

It has just been announced that Harkin is the recipient of the prestigious International Contribution Award, organized by the China Copyright Centre, the International Culture and Creative Industry Expo (ICCIE) and China Guanghua Foundation.

Texas Game Marketers Sell Major Video Game Publishers Message this Holiday Season

Video games under the Christmas tree are a given any holiday season, but this high-stakes selling season video game publishers are under more pressure than ever to translate high-impact, on target marketing directly into sales – and they are looking directly to the video game trailer to do just that.

To ensure titles make an appearance on wish lists everywhere, Mediajuice is commissioned to create highly targeted video game trailers that resonate with younger and older audiences, depending on the brand.

FUNimation® Taps PlaySpanTM Platform to Bring Top Anime Videos to Millions of Gamers Leading Publisher of Japanese Animation Now Featuring Hundreds of Premium Shows Across Video Monetization-as-a-ServiceTM Platform

 

PlaySpan, the global leader in monetizing online games, social networks, virtual worlds and videos, announced today an extensive content partnership with FUNimation Entertainment to sell hundreds of their premium anime shows on PlaySpan Marketplace.



The free online browser game allows players to play life as they choose it. Players can play it safe and focus on their career and work or indulge in a life of crime and risk.

PlayLifeSocial.com is a free online browser game that lets users play the game of life online by first creating an avatar, uniquely stylish and then finding ways to earn a living and progress through their life using a variety of fun actions.