GameSpot's "Today's Top Stories" page has been invaded by the new Splinter Cell
campaign. Was it hacked? Nope.
What's up with this viral marketing crap? And why is GameSpot participating? Oh, that's right, they're getting paid to. How do we trust a source that mixes editorial and advertising space?
Update: here's a link to the full-size images being used for the "viral" marketing campaign taking over editorial at GameSpot.com.
Update: The campaign has been removed. Maybe it was all a glitch. We'll never know.
Update: Actually, now we know… the Sam Fisher spread was ostensibly a glitch in GameSpot's publishing system. Here's the explanation:
This is Tor from GameSpot—this was a massive cockup in our Web publishing system, nothing more. The newshub has since been fixed. Our apologies for the mistake and any appearance of impropriety.
And for the record, there is nothting more on this PLANET I cannnot stand more than a viral marketing campaign. I can swear on an original unsealed copy of Fallout that we would never, ever in a million years be part of such a harebrained, annoying, and morally bankrupt scheme.
We're glad he's in agreement that this would have been harebrained, annoying and morally bankrupt. Hence our reaction to it. Now that we've been told that it was not, we can lay this to rest. Until the next cock-up, anyway. Thanks for setting it straight, Tor!
[Thanks, Ovidiu Dan]
