No, you are not seeing things ...Last week there were unconfirmed sightings of an "Obama for President" billboard in the Xbox 360 racing game Burnout Paradise.
Today the truth can be told. 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," revealed Holly Rockwood, director of corporate communications at Electronic Arts (EA), the game's publisher.
EA regularly allows ad placements in its online games.
"Like most television, radio and print outlets, we accept advertising from credible political candidates," she added. "Like political spots on the television networks, these ads do not reflect the political policies of EA or the opinions of its development teams."
Now can we expect to see a McCain ad in some video game, too? Anybody want to get which game that might be?
Get more at GigaOM.
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Have you heard? McCain has followed Obama's lead and is running his own in-game advertising campaign. Czech out the examples here: http://tinyurl.com/4bppkw
Hahaha, that was awesome. Maybe Obama will appears on NFS Undercover too?