EA confirms E3 protest was fake

June 5th, 2009 Posted in Business, Culture, E3, Rumor


EA has confirmed that the company hired a guerilla marketing agency to promote the new Dante’s Inferno game, which they did by hiring 20 unemployed folks — which there are aplenty of these days — to hold fake signs of protest, in order to generate buzz for a game no one really knows about.

Pathetic.

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