Battlefield: Bad Company Early Demo Codes Giveaway

The much anticipated game demo for Battlefield: Bad Company, a first-person shooter utilizing DICE’s bleeding-edge Frostbite game engine, will be available on both the Xbox 360 and the PS3 (I’m looking at you Valentine!) on June 5th. Those people that pre-ordered the game have been given early access to that demo starting today, one week earlier than the regular masses. The demo includes both single player missions and also multiplayer options as well.

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Wound Up with Massive Fail

Penny Arcade’s national ad campaign for their new game, On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, was not only hilariously brilliant but it was also ridiculously successful. Raking in an impressive $330,000 in only three days, On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness has quickly become the highest-grossing Xbox Live Arcade debut ever. Instead of using the typical positive quips from various reviews as most games do, Penny Arcade decided to go the opposite route. They found a troll-type comment made by someone who is apparently not a Penny Arcade fan and turned it into their ad.

Seeing the success of that type of ad campaign, I have decided to launch my own personal ad campaign. I would like to say it was difficult rounding up horrible comments about myself and my blog but in reality, the only difficult part was sifting through the sheer amount of negative messages I had to choose from. Finally, a good use for all the hate mail!

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