Topic: Video Games
The U.K.’s advertising regulator has banned an advert for computer game Duke Nukem Forever until after 11 p.m. The Advertising Standards Authority says it received 34 complaints for the ad, which…
Sims 3 Pets, the fifth extension for the Sims 3 game, allows players to play as animals for the first time. To pique your interest, Draftfcb San Francisco spliced together…
GENESIS: The Xbox third-person shooter Gears of War, from Epic Games, reinvented video-game advertising. While most war-game ads put hard-driving music over cutscene montages, the trailers for the first two…
Well that didn’t take long. Within a week of quitting his fictional job at PlayStation for an equally fictional job at Economy Flooring, Kevin Butler has returned to help launch…
When there's no room to move up, it's time to look down. At the carpet. That's where Kevin Butler, the "vp of everything" at Sony PlayStation, has decided to focus…
Is there anything obsessive fans can't throw unwholesome amounts of dedication into? The spoof trailer below, which re-imagines Super Mario Bros. as a brooding independent film about drug abuse, seems…
In a new campaign from Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Microsoft follows the latest celebrity who's headed off to college this fall. But he's not a tween singer or a movie…
Here's a cute "behind the scenes" clip of video-game design legend Tim Schafer making his original pitch for the upcoming Sesame Street game Once Upon a Monster. As happens to…
Nike might want him now, but EA Sports was the brand that bet early on Rory McIlroy, the young golfer from Northern Ireland who won the U.S. Open this weekend—following…
In odd celebrity-endorsement news, Robin Williams appears in a couple of ads for Nintendo's remake of the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D video game. Even odder: Williams is…
