Three Old Spice-themed games have lurched onto Xbox Live. Advergames are nothing new on the console, but what’s audacious about this new set of games is you actually have to pay for them, Joystiq reports. [More]
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The Anti-McDonald’s Advergame Game Punks Kotaku!
By 6.6.06
Imagine if this happened: at a British gaming conference, the director of McDonald’s nascent video game division divulges that their first project for the chain was to program a fast food empire simulator to help train management. However, during beta testing of the game, McDonald’s green-friendly game programmers become more and more disturbed as McDonald’s managers time and time again trigger global armageddon within the game. Consequently, McDonald’s Interactive publicly calls its parent corporation a bunch of blood thirsty baby murderers and severs their umbilical cord with their righteously gnashing teeth.
Anti-McDonalds Advergame Misses Mark
By 2.2.06
We’re not quite sure what this “anti-advergame” from MolleIndustria is supposed to be teaching us, but here’s what we learned:
- Running a profitable, multinational corporation takes a lot of hard work and skill.
- Hippie, iMac-using, pot-smoking kids don’t respond well to our clown-themed marketing.
- It’s fun to incinerate cows with a flamethrowing robot.
- We could really go for a burger today.
