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Doodle Jump getting Easter and Hop-themed update

There’s a bunny in my Doodle Jump! I bet that’s the first time you ever saw that sentence! But, it is true. Doodle Jump creators Lima Sky have teamed up with Universal Pictures for the latest free update to this 99¢ iOS app. Apparently, Universal has this little animated movie called Hop coming out soon, and figuring tapping into Doodle Jump‘s legion of fans would be a good way to promote it…

Doodle Jump teams with Universal Pictures for Hop promotion

A couple days ago, we told you about how Angry Birds will be involved in cross promotional advertising for the upcoming film Rio. Today, Doodle Jump has also teamed with a major movie studio for a tie-in. Hop, which will be released on April 1, 2011, will lend its leading bunny to Doodle Jump as a character in an Easter level. Clever huh?

Sony, Universal Pictures create media vending machine called PoP

The PoP 24-hour entertainment vending machine is a service brought to us by Universal Pictures and Sony that allows us to purchase games, DVD’s, Blu-ray movies and music around the clock. It’s essentially a vending machine that dispenses media instead of candy or soda. The interface is entirely touch-screen enabled and separates products into games, movies and music categories.

We can purchase the physical discs or download the media onto a USB thumb drive or a…

Kill time with Death Race on mobile phones

I don’t know about you but when I’m driving I often wonder what my car would look like with a .50 caliber Gatling gun sticking out from my hood. Due to a few pesky laws, that fantasy will only live in my mind. However, we can all live out our fantasies of non-consequential vehicular combat when Death Race flies into theaters on August 22, 2008. Until then Gameloft has taken up the rights to publish a game based on Death Race for mobile phones which will be available on all major carriers sometime in August 2008.

Death Race is a remake of the 1975 film Death Race 2000. It takes place in a…