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Second Life is 8th "most effective" TV product placement

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2007-12-31 00:00:00 by Christopher Grant in Joystiq
...placements on TV in 2007." How did the virtual world earn such an honorable distinction? Remember that guest appearance on NBC's popular sitcom The Office? Curiously, as pointed out by kids at Massively, Second Life made a far more prominent appearance on CSI: NY but that episode didn't earn the honor Of course, we question how "effective"...
 
Tags: life, effective, virtual world earn, earn, sue bee honey, effective placements, hollywood reporter, placement, upper echelons
 
 
 
 
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Even Link has an iPhone 3G: Silly product placement added to videogames

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2008-08-12 10:07:18 by HASH0x8ba3d00 in Destructoid - Hardcore video game blog
...placement might become more problematic as time goes on. Heck, Metal Gear Solid 4 was chock full of it -- with an iPod for Snake to listen to and several real-world food brands for him to eat. I may just be worrying for nothing, though, as the advertisers are apparently not evil , and surely wouldnt dare to compromise our gaming experiences...
 
Tags: real-world food brands, blatant product placement, metal gear solid, tech blog gizmodo, weekly photoshop, results page, favorite videogames, eat, ipod
 
 
 
 
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Q&A: Ookibloks' Flanagan On His Ocean, Sega Past And Indie Future

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2008-03-12 16:00:06 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...placement, and after that I'd actually call Ocean up pretending to be the careers officer just to get me an unofficial placement during the school holidays I got told by one of the more established artists I should go to college before trying to get a real job there, and after a year of college I applied - the first choice they went for...
 
Tags: japanese games industry, japanese games, japanese, japanese arcade games, flanagan, games, game, game designer, british games industry
 
 
 
 
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Video Games: The New Music Stores?

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2008-05-10 02:01:26 by Jon in Romow Game Reviews Blog
...placement Now the major music labels are reaching out to non-music related games in order to sell albums and downloadable tracks. And at the moment, Grand Theft Auto IV is the hottest video game around, so the big industry players are betting big that the game can help music sales. The game allows players to tag a song from its soundtrack and...
 
Tags: game, video game industry, video game history, music, music sales, retail music sales, games, in-game promotion, video games
 
 
 
 
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COLUMN: 'GDRI Wisdom': Young Blood

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2008-10-08 08:00:05 by gdri in GameSetWatch
...placement in Japan Naturally, I felt this too good an opportunity to pass up, and I also felt it was really important to throw myself at as many different options as possible, knowing that no doors would open if I just let things come to me. In the end, I was very lucky to be one of the selected ones to go My placement took me to NTT...
 
Tags: game development, game development companies, gdri, game, games industry, industry, games, gdri wisdom, top-notch games
 
 
 
 
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Second Life Appearance On The Office Wins Accolades

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2007-12-31 12:41:33 by Earnest Cavalli in Game | Life
...placements of 2007, earning the number 8 slot The show's Oct. 25 episode saw beet farmer Dwight Schrute joining the virtual world to " calculate the exchange rate between Schrute bucks and linden dollars The list, compiled by the Hollywood Reporter, attempts to show how television and film have influenced the public perception of a product....
 
Tags: life, effective product placements, product, placement, list, effective placement, hollywood reporter, fictional realm, subject matter
 
 
 
 
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Gears of War 2 graces GamePro cover

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2008-02-04 00:00:00 by Scott Jon Siegel in Joystiq
...placement on the front cover, the announcement of the issue makes no mention of any Gears of War coverage, leaving us a bit skeptical of what the Gears 2 content exactly is. An unconfirmed report from the NeoGAF forums indicates that the content is purely speculative, guessing at a release date and possible features like improved matchmaking...
 
Tags: gears, cover, war, gears placement, cover-worthy, front cover, gears sequel, war coverage, coverage
 
 
 
 
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Opinion: How Game Ads Can Be Done Right

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2008-03-31 16:00:50 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...placement deal with Opel, we could use the logo and actually better fulfill the authentic promise we're making with our game These are just two examples where cooperation with brand owners via advertisers actually helps improve the authenticity of the experience Increased Budgets : Not all games are created equal. The difference between...
 
Tags: game, brands, in-game brands, hell, game hell, post, game post-launch, in-game ads, out-of-game promotion
 
 
 
 
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Kill Ten Rats: EXCLUSIVE! Reporting about NASA MMO ALL WRONG

2008-04-23 02:10:35 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
 
...placement, limited exclusivity and other opportunities. The developer gets to MAKE MONEY on the gamesome of which (negotiable) goes to NASA. This isnt any different than making a game based on a Hollywood license, except the developer will get better terms, more creative control, and probably some sweet technology out of the deal Some of the...
 
Tags: nasa, nasa logo, nasa mmo page, school folks, school, projects, folks, nasa projects, rocket science folks