Tokyo Genki shares an new TV ad for World of Warcraft featuring Chinese pop sensation SHE beating up an unscrupulous promoter in the Warcraft gameworld.
Shattering stereotypes, cultural convergence, women in gaming, sticking it to "The Man" -- the ad is a cute piece of counterculture. Check it out here.
Saturday, July 16, 2005
Logins? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Logins!
Too many sites force you to register and fork over your personal information just to access the most basic features -- all so they or their "trusted partners" can try to sell you something.
Users are striking back at this annoying practice with BugMeNot.com, supplying working login credentials to pages on various sites. As of this posting, they've "liberated" 78,140 sites from the greedy clutches of uncreative database marketers.
Friday, July 15, 2005
Bill's Gate
True to its hands-on marketing tactics, Philippine game publisher NetPlay is sending game tutors to a chain of Internet cafés next week. What really got my attention was the name of the chain: "Bill's Gate".
The Filipino gift for parodic wordplay never ceases to amaze me.
The Filipino gift for parodic wordplay never ceases to amaze me.
Bill Conquers Spidey
First the Dead or Alive babes, and now this. Bill Gates seems hellbent on owning all of the world's most beloved gaming heroes.
Marvel just announced an Xbox-360 exclusive MMORPG.
Marvel just announced an Xbox-360 exclusive MMORPG.
