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PopCap Rips Off Evony Ads – Hilarious

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Last week we posted up the immensely popular article that documented the history of the ridiculous Evony online game ads that can be seen on pretty much every gaming site that you visit these days (we have officially instructed google to stop loading Evony ads on our site).

PopCap Games decided to cash in on the news flying around the net by creating hilarious Plants vs Zombies adverts with the same look, except saying ” Brains now, My Lord” and replacing the beautiful woman with a nasty looking zombie princess-thing.

The advert is just classic, take a look at the pic, after the jump.

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Last Updated: August 17, 2009

6 Comments

  1. Bruceongames

    August 18, 2009 at 13:08

    It is not just the Evony advertising that is suspect. Possibly it is malware: http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/07/16/is-evony-malware/

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  2. Bruceongames

    November 29, 2009 at 14:30

    There is a really excellent and funny video parody on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNzaTePcs64

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  3. Lee

    January 22, 2010 at 14:09

    I got the new version Evony 3.08. My older version was 2.16.
    The new version has all references to Eric Lam and UMGE removed.
    Neither the comments in the hex code nor the decompiled Actionscript have anything that refers to them.
    Also the scripts that enumerated the active programs and sent and retrieved data with the remote servers is gone,
    except for the actual game network link to the Evony.com game servers.

    Even the code is a bit neater and more efficient.
    At least the heavy scrutiny on them is having some pluses. lol.

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  4. David Guo

    March 1, 2010 at 09:31

    Guo Yao Qi David (David Guo’s full name) is a top hacker and is the boss of Evony. He was involved in the 1999 hacking war between China and Taiwan. And he monetised his knowledge by founding the personal firewall company Sky Net.

    Here an article about David Guo as a hacker: http://shenzhen.ccw.com.cn/it/200104/0423.asp
    And here is the rough Google translation (Guo Yaoqi is also known as David Guo and owns Evony):

    http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://shenzhen.ccw.com.cn/it/200104/0423.asp&ei=p2mLS_zxAoT40wTQyLnICw&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://shenzhen.ccw.com.cn/it/200104/0423.asp%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

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  5. arin

    June 16, 2010 at 23:40

    mmmm where do yhu find plnts vs zombies 2??

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  6. arin

    June 16, 2010 at 23:41

    :heart: :hear :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly:
    t: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart:

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