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Video Game Advertising Reaches New Lows

Posted by chrisd on from the I'm-not-dead-yet dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "The Guardian is reporting that Acclaim is attempting to purchase advertising space on gravestones of the recently departed in order to promote its new game ShadowMan 2. This certainly takes the encroachment of commercial messages on public space to new levels." I understand RockStar is looking for a molotov cocktail partner...

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  1. Re:Double Post by dimator · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    You'd think it would be pretty easy to avoid these kind of dupes... just automatically check if a certain url has been posted. How hard could this be to arrange?

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  2. Re:Double Post by aardvarkjoe · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Not hard ... but to do this, Taco would first have to admit that the repeat articles are really a problem. So, instead, he'll just claim that "automatically checking the URL isn't a perfect solution", and refuse to do anything. (After all, people have asking for this for a long time; if they had any desire to stop repeating articles all the time, they'd have already done it.)

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