vandalism

This Game Awards You Points For Smashing Real-Life Cameras

Gamification — the use of game mechanics in the real world — remains largely a joke, often relegated to a bullet point in a marketing strategy or manifested as an ineffective experiment. Some might even call it bullshit. But sometimes you see something noteworthy and interesting — and in this case, gamification has found an unlikely outlet: protesting in Germany (or vandalism? You decide.)


Mafia Wars Agency Takes The Rap For Vandal-Marketing Stunt

An ad agency has taken the fall for a guerrilla marketing stunt that had the city of San Francisco threatening Facebook-games maker Zynga with vandalism and other charges. The agency will pay the city $US45,000 in fines.


Samus Vandals Vs Samus Censors

A couple of days ago, on the subway platform for the F-train in Brooklyn, some pixel art of Metroid heroine Samus appeared. But the lady hero was not wearing enough clothes.


The Littlest PS3 Hater

Angry fanboys are getting younger and younger these days. Fun Tech Talk is reporting that a thirteen year old South Carolina boy was picked up by Toys R Us security after it was discovered that he had written “PS3 Sucks” on twenty three plastic PS3 game security cases with permanent marker. The boy’s parents couldn’t be reached so he was put in the custody of child services (scary). When asked why he did it, the boy answered, “I have an Xbox and I hate Playstation. I found the marker lying on the shelf and I guess I was bored. Sorry.”

If only he’d saved his hate for anonymously posting into the comments on an internet blog site thus starting a massive flame war like an adult.

Boy Arrested For Writing PS3 Sucks On Video Game Cases [Fun Tech Talk]


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