There isn’t a Kevin Butler ad yet that I didn’t like, some of them haven’t been awesome but they have all been good. This one is more a PS Move montage than anything else but it’s still worth watching just for the entirely random ending. Oh and I have to admit I am most probably going to buy those stupid …
A recent TV advert in New Zealand blatantly copied a Sony montage advert featuring Kevin Butler, Sony’s VP of Everything. Instead of ushering in an army of nameless, faceless lawyers, armed with a cease-and-desist order, Butler let the broadcaster know what he’d like as recompense, namely "TV3’s support in making the PS3 the Official Game Console of New Zealand. … …
And here ends our mini soap opera, earlier this week I posted about the fact that TV3 in New Zealand had created a blatant copy of a Kevin Butler ad to market it’s Monday night movies… A few days later Kevin Butler himself responds and calls out TV3 for the blatant copy and then the actor in the advert goes …
Remember that straight-up rip of a PS3 ad that recently aired in New Zealand? The one that blatantly plagiarised the Kevin Butler persona? Well, the persona, the VP of awesome himself has seen the copycat ad and found it wanting. It’s a pretty classy response, and much better than one involving litigation and men in suits. It looks as though …
I love the Kevin Butler PS3 ads, I personally believe he is largely responsible for the PS3’s fantastic recovery… that and the logical price reduction. So after seeing the Kevin Butler ads some clever little bloke in New Zealand decided he/she could use that exact same idea to showcase TV3’s dubious line up… I’m not sure if Sony are going …
Activision Blizzard announced today it’s hired Eric Hirshberg as the new Chief Executive Officer for Activision’s Publishing Department. He’ll report to Activision Blizzard COO Thomas Tippl, the right-hand man of Dark and Evil overlord Robert Kotick. Why is this notable? Eric Hirshberg, running marketing firm Deutsch LA, created the persona of Fake VP of everything awesome Kevin butler for Sony. …
11:55am We’ve got awesome seats right in the front for the Sony keynote. They have gone all out on this one with an open bar, free food and apparently the entire thing is going to be in 3D. 12:00 lights have dimmed and the crowd goes wild… We’re just watching a huge montage of all the Sony exclusives, devices and …
So apparently, the lure of pr0n relations in 3D is going to sell a lot of 3D TVs. They should call it 3DD. That’s gonna be awkward (err, for this friend I know, I mean). The weekend is but a day away and we are all very keen to have a serious chill-out session. The World Cup is almost upon …
Have you ever double-checked your doors at night because something just didn’t feel secure? …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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