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ESPN Football's Bizarre Viral Marketing?

Posted by simoniker on from the videos-actually-kinda-hilarious dept.

LilSerf writes "Four days before Sega debuted their new 'first-person football' feature for ESPN Football 2K4, a mysterious personality called Beta-7 premiered a site detailing the injuries he suffered as a beta-tester for the game. The site is a blog going back to March 21, 2003, the day he first claims to have tested the game and blacked out as a result. The story includes mysterious packages from other injured testers, surveillance footage of his 'episodes', and bootleg video of the 'secret' game features - suspiciously not posted until after the official announcement by Sega. Consensus in the boards on his site seems to be that this is a hoax by Sega - what do Slashdot readers think?"

5 of 49 comments (clear)

  1. GNAA! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    this fp for gnaa. love you baby./.

  2. damn slashdot: bugs everywhere!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 05:32:32 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a mod_perl/1.27 mod_ssl/2.8.10 OpenSSL/0.9.6g Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

    OK

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    Please contact the server administrator, pater@slashdot.org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

    More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

    Apache/1.3.26 Server at slashdot.org Port 80

  3. HEY TACO: ANOTHER BUG REPORT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 05:41:22 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a mod_perl/1.27 mod_ssl/2.8.10 OpenSSL/0.9.6g Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

    OK

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    Please contact the server administrator, pater@slashdot.org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

    More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

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  4. does it mean by toddhunter · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    That if I become a slashdot subscriber and choose to turn the ads off, all the stories here will be turned off as well?
    Seems that way these days

  5. Re:A Fairly Ham-Fisted Hoax. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How about some tags, motherfucker!