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This Is Advertising

Check out the videos of the xmas 2007 PS3 advertising campaign for Northern America, as posted on the official PlayStation blog.

Boom! 😀

Those are fantastic adverts – they completely put to shame the abstract ones we get in Europe. In fact, when I saw the ads above mentioned on my RSS feed first thing this morning I didn’t even pay them a moment’s notice because of the dross I’m used to seeing. But those ads, especially the 60 second one, pretty much sum up what the PS3 is all about – it even gives a quick nod to the motion sensing controller without laying it on thick, same with the Blu-Ray capabilities.

I’d really like to see ads of that caliber for Europe for the festive season – it even reminded me that I should get around to picking up that Saliva album. 8)

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Halo Again…

After spending several hours on Saturday playing through Resistance: Fall of Man on the PS3, I got to thinking about my apathy for Halo. Why was I so immersed in the former, yet so uninterested in the latter title.

I mean, all those people who revere Halo as the best game ever cant be wrong… right?

On Sunday afternoon I decided to turn back the clock and re-install Halo on my PC, where, thanks to the unrelenting march of technology, I’d be able to play it with all the detail and effects maxed out for what should be the ultimate Halo experience.

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