The Manchurian Candidate
There's a remake of "The Manchurian Candidate" coming out soon, starring Denzel Washington. Alert reader Trallyus tipped us off via email to a companion game in which you use your cell phone to answer riddles and gain entries to a sweepstakes where you could win a hometown screening of the movie and/or a new Kyocera cellphone. It's billed as a "voice recognition game" so may not be quite an ARG, however…
Equally alert reader Individua spotted the name in the movie trailer of the evil corporation behind the brainwashing in the movie, "Manchurian Global." Turns out via Yahoo! or Google search, they have a website (conveniently located at the top of the hit list, along with sponsored ads for that search query term). The site, as Individua points out, is full of useless technobabble fluff, but it does have an interesting link to a private extranet. Anyone feel like cracking a login? 😀
The Manchurian Game movie site has some quite nice flash on it, as well.
Side note on the Manchurian Global site: on the home page, the "contact" link at the bottom is attached to an email address, but on other pages it links to the nonexistent "contact.php" file. Let's see how quickly they fix that.
