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Obama invading video games confirmed.
brosef \| 1:59 PM on 10.14.2008	14 comments

Right then.

Yesterday our dear Brad Nicholson reported that Barack Obama is running campaign ads in Burnout paradise. While many D-Toiders were quick to point out that such an image is easy to shoop (while some were less quick), theatlantic.com is running the story as fact. Moreover, gigaom.com has apparently spoken to EA rep Holly Rockwood (whose name sounds suspiciously like a Hannah Montana ripoff...anyone?)

gigaom.com reporting:

“I can confirm that the Obama campaign has paid for in-game advertising in Burnout,” Holly Rockwood, director of corporate communications at Electronic Arts, the game’s publisher, told me via email, noting that EA regularly allows ad placements in their online games.

Also, politico.com has picked up tons of other Obama ads in games ranging from Guitar Hero to NHL 09 to Skate.

Link here: http://www.politico.com/static/PPM106_obamascreenshots.html

I suppose we can confirm this one now... but has anybody actually seen one of these yet?

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14 comments | showing # 1 to 14

Messer

Really? Just 4 blogs down.

brosef

Yeah, I know... he's in the damn article.

You should read things before you comment.

MrSadistic

Obama is so dreamy -sigh-

SnakeDude4Life

Sharpless

But if the kids are supposed to put away the Playstations, how will they ever see the ads?

Brian Szabelski

Stuff like this is why Obama will win. Because he gets that you have to go to the voters, not the other way around.

Darren Nakamura

Reading is fun.

IzekialRage

No, Stuff like A.C.O.R.N. (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) I.E. ballot box stuffers is why Obama will win.

JamnOnTheOne

I disagree with this type of advertising entirely.

I wonder if in any EULA is there provisioning to give me advertising that I do not want nor requested.

brosef

@Sharpless

Good point.

MaxVest

@Sharpless: I believe the kids are supposed to put away their Gameboys, presumably because John McCain is advertising there.

@IzekialRage: It's pretty clear that nobody would have actually been able to vote with the false ACORN registrations. Some low-level employees, who were paid to fill a quota, decided making up a stack of fake registrations was easier than going door-to-door. ACORN's management is inept, yes, but the so-called fraud wouldn't have actually allowed extra people to vote for Obama. The voting system is not dumb enough to be fooled by a "Jimmy Johns" registration, even though ACORN is.

Clockwork

Hasn't Obama clearly stated that there's much more important things in the world to worry about than violent games? He's okay in my book, and that's not the only way.

Hoodie

It's funny to me that people are trying to act like ACORN will steal the election for Obama, when Obama is outpolling the shit out of McCain, which has nothing to do with the bogus registrations that Maxvest already so deftly explained. But the Republicans will need a reason to fill cheated. Oh and a reason to justify their outrageous and well-documented voter-suppression efforts.

Anyway, these Obama ads are awesome. And I'm sure McCain wouldn't be caught dead in anything called "Burnout Paradise". I mean is that some kinda hippie shit?

Sharpless

@MaxVest
I saw a McCain/Palin ad in Discs of Tron, the other day.

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