News

Avenger Controller Creator Tries To Put Ocean Marketing Debacle In The Past

It’s tough to recover from a PR gaffe. Even tougher: when it’s the biggest PR gaffe of 2011, a customer service firestorm that set the internet into Complete And Utter Outrage Mode late last year.


April 10, 2012
In Real Life

Penny Arcade Pranks ‘Ocean Marketing’ Nemesis

The founders of Penny Arcade pulled a fast one on one of their most notorious foes this weekend, hitting Paul “Ocean Marketing” Christoforo with a prank they say has been in the works for the past three weeks.


April 3, 2012
Mobile

New Penny Arcade Game Looks A Lot Like Old Final Fantasy

No, the third Penny Arcade game will not be released on Super Nintendo. Despite its resemblance to 16-bit games of the early ’90s, Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode 3 is coming to PC, Mac, Xbox Live, iOS and Android. Not SNES.


March 24, 2012
News

Child’s Play Doesn’t Appreciate Being Used To ‘Retake Mass Effect’

Citing a large number of refunded donations and confusion over the goal of the “Retake Mass Effect Child’s Play charity drive, Penny Arcade’s Jerry Holkins draws the line: “Child’s Play cannot be a tool to draw attention to a cause. Child’s Play must be the cause.”


February 17, 2012
In Real Life

Penny Arcade’s Game Ratings PSAs Make Learning Fun

You come to Kotaku every day, right? So it stands to reason that you know all about the E through M ratings that grace the boxes of video games in America. But if you’re not a regular reader of this fine site — say, one who buy video games for a younger lifeform — you may not even know that the content ratings exist.


January 7, 2012
News

N-Control Donates $50,000 To Child’s Play

Some good may be coming out of the “Ocean Stratagy”/Paul Christoforo customer service debacle. N-Control, the company that makes the Avenger controller formerly repped by Christoforo, announced that they’d be making a large donation to Child’s Play.


December 30, 2011
In Real Life

A Beatdown Where No One Threw The First Punch

Halfway into the internet’s #1 white-hot outrage of the now, it is easy to spot the bully. But it’s not Paul Christoforo.


December 28, 2011
News

PR Trolling ‘Ocean Stratagy’ Out Of Business, Avenger Controller Maker Asks For Forgiveness

The PR tempest in a teapot born of one misused gamer and shockingly bad customer support seems to have mostly run its course, leaving a one-man PR firm in apparent shambles and a unique video game controller accessory struggling to survive.


In Real Life

‘Ocean Stratagy’ Guy Is ‘Sorry’; Penny Arcade Deems Him A ‘Bully’

An update to the ongoing drama (part 1, part 2) of an ex-controller marketing guy, an angry customer, and Penny Arcade. The guy’s “sorry.” Penny Arcade thinks he’s a “bully” who’s sorry he got caught. Part 3′s on Penny Arcade.


December 27, 2011
In Real Life

Controller Company Berates Customers, Penny Arcade. Bring Popcorn.

Reader Dave has sent us a rather interesting conversation he’s had over the past few weeks he’s had with Paul Christoforo, a PR rep from Ocean Marketing, representing the makers of the Avenger controller accessory.