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Gearbox on In-game Advertising

By Steve Gibson, Mar 28, 2008 7:44pm PDT

A couple of days ago it was announced that Gearbox Software directly made a deal with Double Fusion to handle the in game advertising for their...

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"I woudlnt be opposed to seeing tasteful soft porn adverts in mature games."

- 5150Joker see all 45 comments

Gearbox Signs In-game Ad Deal for Upcoming Titles

By Aaron Linde, Mar 25, 2008 1:02pm PDT

Gearbox Software today announced a partnership with advertising company Double Fusion to bring in-game advertising to future Gearbox titles....

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"Perhaps. But also, your comment seems to fit better in the thread above us, where they're ..."

- heartsauce see all 17 comments

Microsoft, EA Extend In-game Advertising Agreement

By Aaron Linde, Mar 18, 2008 2:58pm PDT

Microsoft subsidiary Massive Inc extended a previously-inked deal to provide in-game advertising for Electronic Arts titles, the company announced...

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"Obviously the deal doesn't include Burnout: Paradise. LOL @ CompUSA ads."

- Fyunch Click see all 10 comments

Activision CEO: StarCraft 2 Can Be 'Model' for In-game Advertising (Updated)

By Nick Breckon, Mar 06, 2008 12:10pm PST

Update: Blizzard has clarified that, as expected, only the Battle.net component of StarCraft II will contain advertising. "We have no plans to...

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"Seriously, those aren't the type of comments you should let out...you know the ones about ..."

- sreyes22 see all 63 comments

Battlefield Heroes Has No In-game Advertising

By Chris Faylor, Feb 29, 2008 11:01am PST

Despite being a free-to-play ad-supported web title, EA DICE's upcoming cartoony shooter Battlefield Heroes (PC) will not feature any type of...

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"EA doesn't make the games, they hire other people to do so. Then after one or two good games, EA ..."

- JimRune see all 71 comments

Nielsen: In-game Advertising Persuades Gamers

By Nick Breckon, Aug 09, 2007 8:43am PDT

Massive Inc, the same Microsoft advertising subsidiary now in charge of delivering ads to EA Sports titles, yesterday released the results of a...

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"Advertising is evil. It's only purpose is to make people buy something they have no use for. If ..."

- AgentPothead see all 26 comments

Opinion: In-Game Advertising Blows Up

By Steve Gibson, Jul 01, 2007 1:00pm PDT

As gamers know, product placement and advertising in popular media and games isn't a really new idea--it started to garner some attention as far...

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"Didn't the Aztecs claim 2012 to be the end anyways. Look if you don't want in-game adverts vote ..."

- karlk79 see all 68 comments

Google Patents In-Game Advertising, Tracking Methods

By Nick Breckon, May 14, 2007 3:26pm PDT

A United States patent filed by Google and published this March has revealed details of extensive in-game advertising strategies that are...

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"Makes sense, if they don't patent it then someone else will do so and then come after them, it's ..."

- Wierdo-X see all 62 comments

Reactions to In-Game Advertising

By Chris Remo, Nov 30, 2005 1:00pm PST

Gamasutra's latest Question of the Week deals with the growing trends of in-game advertising. As usual, the site receives comments from varied...

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"As one might expect, the general sentiment is that it is inevitable that in-game ads will become ..."

- ornee see all 69 comments

In-game Advertising

By Steve Gibson, Oct 21, 2004 11:04am PDT

We werent just blowing smoke up your bootie when we talked about in-game advertising gathering up some momentum lately. Just a couple of days ago...

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"I am personally looking forward to seeing the Viagra and penis-size ads in-game rather than in ..."

- jriegel see all 311 comments

In-game Advertising

By Steve Gibson, Aug 25, 2004 12:21pm PDT

In-game advertising has come up a few times here over the years as something we all expect to become popular sooner or later. It never really...

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"More fleecing for the sheep. Sigh. Line up and say, Baaaaaah!"

- ornee see all 117 comments