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There’s A Tumblr For Terrible Video Game Press Releases
7The amount of games that get released every week is staggering. There’s hundreds of new games appearing on Steam and consoles every week. And for every single one of those, their developers and handlers are trying to get the word out — via a press release. Some of those releases make some lofty and bizarre…
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Smartphone Gamer Dragged Through The Subway
Last week an incident broke out in the Beijing subway system. A young woman got into an altercation with her apparent boyfriend over a mobile phone game, it seems. The end result: she dragged the man onto a subway train. But was this just a PR stunt?
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Call Of Duty Flack Stole From Activision To Pay For Engagement Party
An Activision PR manager who stole nearly $US30,000 from the launch budget for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2‘s UK release and used it to finance her engagement party avoided active jail time in a sentencing hearing today. Kathryn Kirton, 35, stayed out of prison because a judge noted her prosecution has already threatened her…
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Activision Announces Big Announcement: Eh, what? All I can say is that I received an email from Activision Oz’s PR earlier today stating that “tomorrow, Activision will be making a major announcement which will involve a press release and other assets”. Feel free to be confused – the publisher does this sort of pre-hype all…