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PC

Bullets And Booze, Bottles And Brass Litter Max Payne 3′s Official TV Ad

Here’s the official Max Payne 3 promotional trailer, which premiered last night in the US.

August 16, 2011
In Real Life

Rick Perry’s Idea Of American Ingenuity Is A Canadian Video Game

Governor and Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry is as wholesome and American as they come. He believes in hard work, patriotism, faith in god, and good old American ingenuity, even if we have to import it from Canada.

July 6, 2011
News

Death Is The Perfect Time For In-Game Advertising

Dying in a video game pisses people off. In-games advertising pisses people off. Independent free-to-play browser-based online game developer Artix figures it might as well kill two angry birds with one annoying stone, merging death with in-game ads. Isn’t it just perfect?

June 23, 2011
Xbox

See Xbox 360′s Kinect-Enabled Advertising In Action

This video gives us a unique opportunity to see behind the wall that one would hope separates entertainment from advertising.

March 25, 2011
In Real Life

Fanfare — And A Green Jacket — For The Common Man

One thing you can count on in the NCAA basketball tournament, playing now, are the CBS promo spots for The Masters, full of pomp and grandeur, with Jim Nantz invoking the Tradition Unlike Any Other. That’s what makes this spot for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters so fantastic.

March 24, 2011
In Real Life

Serena Williams Drops Pants, Pretences In Video Game Ad

Let’s talk about sex. More specifically, sex, sports and video games; the perfect trifecta of ways to grab a certain demographic’s attention and hopefully dollars. Watch the above commercial, a web-only spot for 2K Sports’ Top Spin 4. I’ll give you a couple of minutes if you need some time alone.

March 23, 2011
In Real Life

But If We Had Portals, We Wouldn’t Need Buses

Or would we? We’d shoot one portal beside our couch, one on the side of the bus, and wait for it to reach its destination from the comfort of our own homes. Seattle’s mobile Portal 2 ads via Reddit.

Mobile

The Xperia Play Does Horrible Things To One Amazing Lady

Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play is more than just a mobile phone. It’s a gaming device powerful enough make loveable actress and comedienne Kristen Schaal transform into a dwarf, get possessed by the devil, and play with herself.

February 20, 2011
PlayStation

Hey, Whatever Happened To Marcus, The PSP Mascot?

A Sony executive recently declared that Marcus Rivers, the smartass ‘tween flack for the PSP who debuted at E3 last year, delivered “positive sales effects,” for the handheld. Near as I can tell, that’s the first anyone’s heard of the little twerp in more than four months.

January 5, 2011
Retro

Were Vector Graphics Ever This Exciting?

Oh for the days when video game advertising consisted of nothing more than people looking so excited their faces were about to explode. Check out the full Vectrex ad at Josborn’s Flickr page.

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