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[Monty Mole]

Jonathan Ross has his own indie game dev, but I'd imagine this is more to do with his persona. He is a big gamer though, that much is known.

 

[ThePeoplesBureau]

Saw him tweet something earlier mentioning how much he loved Forza and there was a Mountain Dew mention or hashtag or something. May well be the UK Dorito Pope.

You had to say it, didn't you...

Dowito Pope.

 

[CaptainTiptop]

Fan of the jonathan ross show he's a cool guy.
His wife wrote the kickass films if i am correct?

She co-wrote Stardust, Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class. So she's actually cooler than Wossy, haha.

 

[Monty Mole]

You had to say it, didn't you...

Dowito Pope.

You need to change that to Vimto and Kettle Chips.

 

[Cragvis]

She co-wrote Stardust, Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class. So she's actually cooler than Wossy, haha.

They should have hired her.

 

[Adam Scott Aukerman]

...for original Xbox TV content (or whatever they're calling it), surely.

 

[Boogybro]

CTRL + F "Mircwosoft"

Deal with it.

 

[Red Mage]

So a homophobic dude, based on this I assume he will be the official spokesman of Xbox Live.

I caught that too. Maybe MS needs to be on Suicide Watch?

 

[Jb]

The return of a game show like 1 vs 100 maybe?

That'd be so good. Hopefully it's not a UK only thing. Realistically, I expect something more in line with the Reality TV soccer thing they've announced but one can hope.

 

[ThePeoplesBureau]

You need to change that to Vimto and Kettle Chips.

I would, but I think Microsoft would prefer Wossy to remain 'on brand'.

 

[OverBlood 3]

He was shilling xbox stuff on twitter earlier and I found it really odd and random. Now it makes total sense.

 

[TheRealTalker]

commercial related I am guessing

that or acting like a community manager for events

Edit: Executive Producer?.... who was the old one

 

[Busty]

Target demographic.

Target demographic.

Target demographic.

Target demographic.

Target demographic.

Spoiler

..., you're completely missing it MS. Seriously, what year is it? 1994? Pfffft.

 

[Caayn]

Replace Major Nelson???

What's wrong with the Major? He's a pretty cool guy.

 

[daviyoung]

Joey Essex from TOWIE joining up with Ouya

"cos I can play Cut Ver Rope on my telly and der birds luv it"

 

[Dazzler]

Hope he consults them to drop Kinect

 

[system11]

Celebrity payoffs. Pretty desperate, but on the upside unlike most of the people who seem to have pushed the Xbones direction, he does actually play games. Maybe they could learn something from him.

 

[ThePeoplesBureau]

Not with Kinect.

 

[sono]

Will he use Kinect and Skype to make prank calls in poor taste?

My thoughts too!

 

[Ding-Ding]

Everyday, Microsoft gives me yet another reason not to purchase the Xbox One.

How the fuck are they doing it?

 

[Big_Al]

For an example of his earlier work he did a cool documentary on Steve Ditko and years ago in the 80s did a cool series called The Incredibly Strange Film Show.

 

[moggio]

So a homophobic dude.

Errr... no?

 

[leadbelly]

So a homophobic dude, based on this I assume he will be the official spokesman of Xbox Live.

Nah, I wouldn't say he's homophobic. You have to be aware of his shows to really understand.

Anyway, I think it was this very forum where someone posted a video of him being interviewed by IGN.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56BD8ehGFDk

He talked about his company that makes Android games. It might even be a game he is working on.

 

[OverBlood 3]

Unprecedented Mountain Dew

 

[Rey]

What's wrong with the Major? He's a pretty cool guy.

I personally don't have any problems with him.

Jonathan Ross is a tv personality so I could see him doing something similar like Major Nelson.
Ps. And it was a joke ofcourse. I have no clue what else Jonathan Ross could be doing at Microsoft.

 

[AcridMeat]

Speech recognition tester?

First thing I thought hahahaha

This will forever be my favorite thing Johnathan Ross related.

Would it just be EU advertising? I guess so, no one would understand him in the west.

 

[tusken77]

Not surprising. I remember when he was involved in promoting Kinect back when it was known as Natal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGvYFAYqRRw

 

[Cragvis]

Unprecedented Mountain Dew

themountaindewintensivies.gif

 

[VE3TRO]

Didnt he develop a game last year for iOS. I know he's a big nerd for games and comics.

Probably mention it on his show this week.

 

[ruttyboy]

I had no idea you could buy Mountain Dew in the UK, it was always an American thing to laugh at. Might have to see if I can find some to see what it tastes like.

 

[Duster]

I can see him benefiting Microsoft actually, he's a former (?) film critic written and a big comic book fan to the point he's even written his own.
As most videogame scripts have some major issues I'm sure he can do something to improve them.

 

[OverBlood 3]

What's wrong with the Major? He's a pretty cool guy.

He's a corporate mouth piece, doesn't seem genuine whatsoever. He's hardly the fonz.

#DewGameZone

 

[Alchemy]

This isn't video games.

 

[JLeack]

I like him. This is great news for me.

 

[Red Liquorice]

What's he going to do?

Advertise it, obviously.

 

[Saiyan-Rox]

Lets hope he's not helping with the UK Voice commands

 

[blizzardjesus]

This finally gives the xbox one some nerd cred after all that nfl/sports nonsense.

 

[daviyoung]

This finally gives the xbox one some nerd cred after all that nfl/sports nonsense.

lol what?

it's not like they brought Stephen Wolfram or John Carmack on board

 

[SlipperyMoose]

Sony needs to sign Conan to a deal now.

I think Microsoft has some sort of deal with Conan actually due to tall the "Clueless Gamer" episodes are all Xbox 360 games.

 

[leadbelly]

First thing I thought hahahaha

This will forever be my favorite thing Johnathan Ross related.

Would it just be EU advertising? I guess so, no one would understand him in the west.

But he is from 'the West'.

 

[myca77]

If he's just being used for marketing then that's a big meh. If he is actually being used as a consultant it may serve MS well having a massive gaming/comic book/film geek on their books.

 

[spirity]

Is it bad that I've never heard of Jonathan Ross?

Are you from the UK? If so, yeah its bad.

If you're not, then it isn't.

EDIT
ah, location Netherlands.

 

[plagiarize]

Imagine if MS had hired gamers to work on the system before the hardware was finalized, and before the OS was finalized.

That could have been something.

 

[blizzardjesus]

lol what?

it's not like they brought Stephen Wolfram or John Carmack on board

You should prolly watch some japanorama, dude is into alot of Geek culture related stuff.

 

[xxracerxx]

Holy smokes at his wife's attributes.

 

[daviyoung]

You should prolly watch some japanorama, dude is into alot of Geek culture related stuff.

pff, he's a Big Bang Theory level nerd

 

[EmptySpace]

playstation, time to sign a contract with stephen fry and graham norton.

 

[ruttyboy]

Hmmm, seems that they put arsenic or something in Mountain Dew over in the US so they're not allowed to sell it here, weird.

Why haven't you launched the US version of Mountain Dew?

We couldn't just launch US Dew in the UK for two reasons…

In the EU there are different regulations on what can and can't go into our products. As such, we have had to tweak the formula slightly to comply with those regulations.
The US Dew uses HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) to sweeten the product, but in the UK we use just normal, plain and simple sugar. The two taste slightly different which very subtly impacts taste.

Rest assured our Dew loving friends, we literally locked our technicians (guys in white lab coats with thick rimmed glasses) away for weeks and until they had replicated the US Dew — this is the output of their combined mega brains!

https://www.mountaindewenergy.co.uk/questions/

 

[TheOddOne]

Beaten by Gofreak.

 

[Raoh]

TV