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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. Old news by snillfisk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    .. In case you didnt read it, the date on the article says 'Friday March 15, 2002' .. And as someone else mentioned, penny arcade is doing a comic today about the report of someone getting in queue for Turok 50 days in advance.. read it here ..

    I also think i saw this news-thingy here on slashdot earlier (about the gravestones).

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  2. Old News by DarkZero · · Score: 1, Redundant

    This news is from March and Slashdot has already posted it. Chris, please take the whopping three or four seconds of your time to make sure that you aren't making a double post by using Slashdot's handy search feature next time. And while you're at it, maybe you should remove this news post. This is common knowledge among gamers and anyone who has come across a site like Slashdot or Kuro5hin in the past few months. The comments will be nothing more than flames.

  3. perfect candidate by WebMasterJoe · · Score: 1, Redundant

    This story died way back in March - why not slap an ad for crush course on its tombstone?

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  4. It's a troll by The+Cat · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Move on. The publicity from the suggestion is doing more than the actual advertising.