Scott M. Rouse

Working on video games I have the opportunity to do something fun almost every day. Today went beyond fun and into the realm of TOTALLY RAD! Xbox and 343 Industries announced that award winning producer and composer Neil Davidge will be creating the score for Halo 4. As part of the announcement I worked on a live chat with Neil via Facebook. Listening to him talk about the creation of the music was incredible and I can’t wait to play this game.

In February I started a new job as a Digital Producer at Roundhouse. We have offices in Portland, OR and Seattle, WA offering a full suite of services from web development to event management. My role is focused on management of digital marketing campaigns in the social media space for our gaming clients. Check us out at roundhouse agency

Here is the view from our Seattle office

My office

Bad, bad blog daddy indeed. When I started this page I thought it would be easy to write a few times a month and as it turned out it was easy in the beginning (when I didn’t have a job). Then in March of last year I accepted a 12 month contract at Microsoft working on Xbox marketing and all aspirations flew out the window. Work, time with family, and other hobbies left little time to write. Continue reading

In March I started a new job working on US marketing partnerships for Xbox at Microsoft so I have been neglecting my blog, I know I am bad blog daddy. I love my job and have been keeping really busy working on some fun promotions. I launched a Mountain Dew promotion for Splinter Cell: Conviction and placed Xbox 360 Consoles in every US Bose retail store to support their awesome new line of 5.1 surround home theater systems. I am working on some other exciting projects I’ll share when they go public Continue reading