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5 Baffling Video Game Marketing Schemes

Sometimes video game promotions veer into weird, crazy or just plain baffling territory. Here are 5 such examples.

DualWielder.com writes: "Being a consumer isn't easy anymore. It's noisy out there. It's like for every useful piece of technology that takes our troubles away (like the Slap Chop), there's a whole media storm of crap being thrown in our face, designed to steal our hard earned dollars with failed promises (Extenze!). Luckily, video game companies know how dumb we are. They have very flashy marketing campaigns to help get our attention, and we thank them for it.

However, in the process, sometimes they come up with weird, misleading, awesome, inappropriate or just all together baffling promos. Here are 5 of the most recent standouts."
ShotgunPlusFace - contributor
Published: 115 days 10 hours ago | Article | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360 | Sony PSP | PlayStation 2 | PC
 
 
 
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