Gamers most likely know the name Harcos because of the companys various, gaming-related energy drinks. For example, there’s the Health Energy Potion, the Mana Energy Potion and, my personal favorite, Zombie Blood. The company is known for capitalizing on fads, so it’s not surprising that it’s latest product cashes in on the Charlie Sheen whirlwind tour. Time to bring out the Tiger Blood…

Square Enix and Suntory are joining forces again! The two companies have a habit of teaming up for specialty drinks based on Square Enix’s video games. As you may remember, there’ve been tons of Final Fantasy “potions,” with the most recent batch promoting and featuring Final Fantasy XIII characters on the cans. Now it’s being done for the Wii game Dragon Quest Monsters Battle Road Victory.

There are going to only be two potions released, with two containers. Each container looks like a slime sitting on a pedestal. Don’t worry – the drinks probably won’t be orange and blue. It looks like wrappers are giving the slimes their customary colors. The blue slime container holds Hoimi Cider and the orange Tropical Frizz. Both are designed to be healthy drinks, and not energy potions, and each will cost ¥284 (~$3). So far, no sites are taking preorders…

Harcos is an energy drink manufacturer that caters mainly to gamers, teenagers and pop-culture fans with a series of whimsical energy drinks (and powders!) that provide energy in an array of flavors and eye-catching containers. Their latest product is Zombie Blood, a neon-green, lime-flavored, energy potion packaged in a blood bag that’s designed to give drinkers a four hour energy boost.

After getting a chance to test it out, I can easily say Zombie Blood is the tastiest, most refreshing and most novel energy drink available. I can’t believe Harcos didn’t tap zombies for their sweet nectar sooner…

Beverage companies have been targeting gamers for a while.

Recall Harcos’ Mana Drink, Mountain Dew more than once and, of course, various Bawls brews.

The latest beverage endeavor is by Hint Inc., a company that specializes in flavored water sans sugar. Instead of rebranding an existing product with a lame gamer-esque name or some fancy art, Hint has instead decided to piggyback the popularity of Nintendo’s exercise game, Wii Fit Plus.

Drinking and gaming. We saw it happen with Halo and World of Warcraftand now a beverage company is trying to help juice up Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Monster Energy drink has teamed up with Activision for a cross-promotional effort that the companies hope will help keep gamers from passing out during MW2 marathon gaming sessions.

Even more interesting are the promises on the drinks’ packaging which indicate that Monster will give away MW2games which will be available November 11, 2009 for PS3, Xbox 360 and Windows, as well as downloadable content (DLC), indicated to be available Spring 2010.

Monster may have jumped the gun because Infinity Ward’s Community Manager Robert Bowling said production on DLC hasn’t even started yet.

Energy drinks and energy shots are pretty much everywhere, since people love the idea of being able to cut back on sleep without feeling exhausted. In order to help capitalize on their popularity, and also reach a very influential buying group, Harcos has created a line of energy drinks geared towards gamers.

The first was the Mana Energy Potion, a blue energy drink with a citrus flavor designed to give an energy boost. Since it was well received by the masses, a new variety, the Health Energy Potion, has just been released. Like the original, it promises between five and eight hours of energy after drinking a 50mL shot…

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Okay, we already know there’s a potion drink created for gamers to restore their mana points (Mana Energy Potion), but what about their hit points? People could be in serious trouble out there! Harcos, the company that created the Mana Energy Potion, decided to step in and fill this serious gap in the gaming energy drink market with Health Energy Potion.

The Health Energy Potion is basically another one of those energy shot drinks. It’s a 1.69 oz, potion shaped bottle that costs $3.45 and is supposed to give you an energy boost that lasts 5-8 hours. It currently is available at the Mana Energy Potion website, but will also be at Fry’s, Hot Topic, ThinkGeek and Micro Center if you want to wait and just buy one bottle.

You may want to make sure you’re really tired and need the boost before drinking though. I’m looking at the specifics and the drink has as much caffeine as two cans of Red Bull. Once your hands stop shaking, it probably would help you stay up and game. It doesn’t have any sugar in it, but it does have elderberry, ginseng, biotin and folic acid in it. Yum…

Have you ever wondered if your beverage had an affinity towards good or evil? If you decide to drink one of Suntory’s Dissidia: Final Fantasy potions from Japan, created to promote Square Enix’s latest PSP game, you’ll know right away what side your drink’s on – Cosmos (good) or Chaos (bad). Cosmos potions have a clear yellow color, while Chaos are a clear black.

JBox is carrying the Dissidia potions right now. You can pay $4 and receive a single can of either the “grapefruit flavored” Cosmos potion or the “muscat flavored” Chaos potion. Has anyone ever heard of muscat before? Me either. You can also pay $32 and either get a complete set of Chaos or Cosmos cans. Each can has an illustration on it, so that’s probably the drink’s main draw. If you go with a single can, you can’t specify what character you want – you’ll just be sent a random can of the drink.

Especially interesting is the little “experiment” shown on Neocrisis, which clearly depicts both drinks. It poses the question what happens when an evil beverage and a good beverage combine…