Post Tagged with: "advertising"

Blizzard to Include Product Placement in Next MMO?

A job listing for Blizzard’s secrecy shrouded future MMO (code named Titan) has set many tongues a wagging.

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Report: In-Game Advertising to “Increase Rapidly”

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has published a report stating that the amount spent on in-game advertising will at least double by 2014.

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Madden NFL 11 Will Feature New Swagger Statistic Sponsored by Old Spice

EA Sports will apparently be featuring a new statistical category in this years Madden NFL 11 game, and it goes by the name of “Swagger.” If you’re thinking, “hey, that sounds just like the Old Spice product Brian Urlacher used to …

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APB To Have In-Game Radio Ads

In-game advertising is one of those things that you can either hate, or not mind at all. Personally, I never care about in-game ads because they’re never really forced on you, or they’re easily ignored. The radio advertisements APB is implementing, however, could change my mind entirely.

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Sega Monkey-ing Around With Real-Life Chiquita Bananas

When you’re in the middle of a frantic session of Super Monkey Ball, does it make you want to reach for a nice, ripe banana? When you’re shopping for bananas at your local supermarket, does it make you want to play a frantic banana-grabbing session of Super Monkey Ball? The game’s developer, Sega, and the [...]

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EA In-Game Advertising Abuse: Madden Arcade Ad Flashes Before Every Madden 10 Snap

I went to play some more of my Madden 2010 franchise this morning after not having played it since prior to writing the review up a few months ago. The PS3 flashes a notice that the game requires a 182 mb update, so I hit accept and start to watch the bar fill up. About [...]

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Bionic Commando Uses His Extraordinary Gift for Menial Tasks

While the term “menial” doesn’t necessary apply to a fireman, everything is menial when you’ve got a bionic arm. Capcom’s advertising for Bionic Commando has gone viral, by putting Nathan Spencer into multiple jobs, including fireman, middle manager, and paperboy. Of course, he and his automaton appendage find some way to mess it up each [...]

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Resistance 2 ads terrify residents of Dublin into buying

Kotaku has received some scans of a Dublin newspaper’s advertisement for Sony’s recently released Resistance 2. This isn’t particularly amazing. What is amazing is that the adverts pose as full front-page stories with the headline “America Under Attack” and an image of the giant Chimera attacking Chicago. The campaign includes an address from the “President” [...]

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New Left 4 Dead “Check List” Commercial Set to Zombify Your TV Starting November 8th

With a reported 10 million dollar advertising budget (half of which is said to be for television spots) Valve is doing everything they can to make sure you and your friends are ready to kick some zombie ass. The game hits store shelves in the US on November 18th, but a boat load of money [...]

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Ubisoft Launches $10 Milion Ad Campaign with Help From South Park, Family Guy, and the NFL

Gaming is serious business, and Ubisoft is dishing out 10 million dollars to make sure that you are well aware of their holiday line up, which includes Far Cry 2, Shaun White Snowboarding, and the new Prince of Persia.

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Thousands Quest for Flavor in Mountain Dew’s New MMO

In yet another attempt to bring together the worlds of Mountain Dew and videogames, PepsiCo created the DEWmocracy. This Massively-Multiplayer Online game casts players as “an anonymous hero that rebels against the the forces of uniformity and seeks a new world, and a new elixir, that will change everything”. That must be pretty interesting because [...]

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