Confirmed: Obama Is Campaigning on Xbox 360!

[Perky]

http://gigaom.com/2008/10/13/confirmed-obama-is-campaigning-on-xbox-360/

Last week we noted unconfirmed sightings of an “Obama for President” billboard in the Xbox 360 racing game Burnout Paradise. Today we’re able to report that it is, in fact, an official advertisement placed by the senator’s campaign team.

“I can confirm that the Obama campaign has paid for in-game advertising in Burnout,” Holly Rockwood, director of corporate communications at Electronic Arts, the game’s publisher, told me via email, noting that EA regularly allows ad placements in their online games. “Like most television, radio and print outlets, we accept advertising from credible political candidates,” she continued. “Like political spots on the television networks, these ads do not reflect the political policies of EA or the opinions of its development teams.”

To my knowledge, this Burnout ad is far and away the most prominent use of a major online game to promote a presidential candidate’s campaign. There have been near-misses, of course: In 2006, for example, when he was seriously considering a run for the Democratic nomination, ex-Virginia Gov. Mark Warner made an avatar-based appearance at a press conference in Second Life.

[liberalmuse]

1. Next stop...

Second Life, LOL. Awesome!

[Perky]

2. Personally I want to Bowl with Barack on Wii,

[Hassin Bin Sober]

3. Yeah? So?.........

McCain is campaigning on Pong!

[Sodan]

5. LMAO

[Perky]

6. I thought he was going to do a cameo on MUuphy Brown

[Sodan]

4. Cool!

[nc4bo]

7. Impressive and totally brilliant! nt