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SONY'S ADVERTISING PEOPLE GET IT RIGHT!

Although probably not quite in the way they meant. This PlayStation3 advert uses a photo of a sizeable bomb exploding. We could take this update down two very clearly signposted roads.

(1) Feign OUTRAGE over Sony using nuclear imagery to promote its game machine, especially as it’s a Japanese company, and ooh, isn’t that going to offend people who got nuked in the war?

(2) Just laugh at PS3 being called a bomb by the very people Sony’s paying to promote it.

PS3 - contaminating thousands

Taken from here, a site where even advertising people don’t seem to understand what this rubbish is supposed to mean (what it means is PlayStation3 is bombing, bombing with the power of 25,000 SEGA Saturns).

Also on the site is this one for Sony Bravias which nicely references Sony’s home equipment and its fondness for breaking and catching fire. We suspect this burning Bravia’s warranty ran out just last week, too.

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HOW TO IDENTIFY JADE RAYMOND, ASSASSINS CREED SPOKESBABE

She’s got three little moles beneath her collar bone. They make a little triangle.

Jade's collar bone

Only you would know this. Only you get close enough to her to know this.

Jade's thumb and hand

She also has a mole on her left thumb.

Jade's development harem

This is the full photo of Jade and the Assassin’s Creed team. The team must love the way they’re lumped together in a big mass and made to stand three paces behind Jade. Morale must be sky high. It also looks like Jade was the only one given advance warning to “wear something nice”.

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NINTENDO STRIKES AGAIN

With this sensational publicity photograph, designed to promote the DS Brain Training range and it’s appearance at The Retirement Show this weekend. See you there on Saturday.

'Chipolatas, tea, milk, bread'

Let’s all be nice. That could be your grandma.

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PS3 LIE WATCH: EVIDENCE UPDATED REGARDING 'THE PRICE'

The astonishing thing about Sony’s amazing public lies is the way they’re getting closer together. It’s hard to keep track of lies when they’re two or three years apart, but when you lie in January about things that then happen in July, it’s blatantly obvious you’re treating your userbase like idiots.

Jack Tretton LIES

This is taken from here. It was a pretty huge lie, really. But that was nothing!

Japanese man LIES

Incredibly, Sony last week told a lie on July 6 about a thing they announced on July 9. A new personal best for time between lie and contradictory truth! Go Sony! You’re still best at one thing!

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E3 2007: NINTENDO DELIVERS!

Delivers another batch of completely amazing publicity photos. The fun they have in that office. Must be like SEGA during the glory years down there.

Wii Fit

This poor model is about to get destroyed and humiliated across the entire internet, even though she’s clearly very lovely. We can only hope she was financially compensated enough to make her imminent web forum nightmare worthwhile.

Wii Fit

Dad’s joining in. Good old dad. He seems to be enjoying games much more these days, especially when his daughter brings her friends around to play.

Wii Fit

There is no way a man would get that excited about a woman’s exercising game.

Wii Fit

Dad’s also started doing lots of press ups recently, ever since he signed up a MySpace account.

Wii Fit

Thanks, Nintendo! Sadly, we can’t play Wii Fit due to feeling very vulnerable and exposed when not wearing socks and shoes.

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SEGA WINS E3!

Just like it won E3 1995 with the Saturn! The glory days are back!

Sonic on Xbox Live Arcade! :)))

Sonic 1! On Xbox Live Arcade! Now! For an entirely reasonable 400 credits! This is now the reason Xbox Live exists and the reason we have continued to exist for the last two years. There’s not much left to look forward to now, though.

Sonic Rush Adventure

Not just ONE 2D Sonic game, but TWO 2D Sonic games! Here’s a trailer for Sonic Rush Adventure. If you were paying attention about two years ago, you’ll know that Sonic Rush was a sensational return to form for Sonic – if you BOTHERED to play it properly and didn’t just put it down half way through level two. This is more of that!

And not just TWO 2D Sonic games, but more stuff on the new NiGHTS as well! There’s an alternate version of this video on YouTube where someone’s put the Saturn game music over the top, which makes a huge difference.

New NiGHTS!

Still! New NiGHTS! That’s more than it looked like we’d get three years ago, when it seemed SEGA was going to only make pachinko machines for the rest of time.

Gears of Killzone is the best we can come up with

This is a joke. It’s one of those generic aliens from Killzone 2 falling down a slippery slope, just like Killzone, PS3 and all of Sony’s money in the face of this SEGA onslaught!

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PS3 LIE WATCH: EVIDENCE UPDATED REGARDING 'KILLZONE 2'

This is the update we have been waiting to write since May 2005, back when Sony issued some huge lies about what Killzone would look like on PlayStation3 – had PlayStation3 been released in 2023.

Sony has now revealed what Killzone actually looks like on PS3. It looks like any old Xbox 1 game set in the Tom Clancy universe.

The original Killzone lie

This is Sony’s original suggestion of what Killzone would look like on PS3. It was, even at the time, clearly one of the biggest lies ever told in the interactive entertainment industry.

Killzone 2, JPEG compression 4

And this is the truth. Killzone 2 is the world’s most generic action game. Even better, go over to Euro PS3 PR blog Threespeech and see amazingly deluded PS3 owners saying this looks anything other than utterly disappointing.

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ANIMATED EMILY – YOUR FEMALE DESKTOP COMPANION

It’s like she’s aware of you, looking at you and interacting with you! She might even be interested in hearing what you have to say about games! Or she might be saying “NO! PLEASE STOP! I’LL DO ANYTHING!”

Emily Booth, talking to you like she's interested in you

IT WAS FROM THIS MAN: “I’m sure someone else has already done it, but just in case they haven’t; I have. It looks a bit like one of those reticulated animal cards you got in Frosties “back in the day”. It’s not really as rude as you might be hoping for. However, you can just pretend that Emily is talking to you all day. Michael”.

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IF YOU BUY A PLAYSTATION3 IN THE NEXT WEEK, YOU'RE EVEN STUPIDER THAN SONY THINKS

Sony’s obviously going to announce a shameful, fan-base-angering European PS3 price cut at E3 this week, or at least throw in some shit games for free you can eBay. PS3 sales must drop to ZERO this week. Make them suffer.

PS3 'bargain'

Buying one off some idiot who paid full price and can hardly even give it away is acceptable, though.

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UK HARDWARE SALES FIGURES HAVE BEEN RELEASED FOR 2007 SO FAR

Officially this time, so there’s no need for anyone to go crying and emailing anyone else’s boss and trying to get them sacked, okay?

Sadly, the figures for home consoles are broken down by manufacturer – so Sony’s PS3 blushes are spared by having PS2 sales added to them.

UK SALES FIGURES FOR JAN-JUN 2006, AND JAN-JUNE 2007

UK console sales for 2007

It’s all a bit hard to understand, but it at least shows that PS3 sold 930,000 units of software this year, compared to Wii’s 1.5 million and Xbox 360’s 3.14 million. That would appear to support any sort of argument you care to put forward.

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