Activision is still doing brisk sales on its Vampire The Masquerade video games based on the White Wolf universe. Kind of like the Underworld movie, only with royalties. Interesting bands such as Ministry, the Genitorturers and Die My Darling are on the soundtrack. The thing I find really fascinating about this is that the Bloodlines and Redemption games are unsurprisingly rated M for, err, Mature. So, of course, producer Activision’s site makes this clear before web surfers may access any information about the games. The disturbing thing being that they actually seem to expect interested people to enter, not only their birthdays, but a valid credit card number for access to the information. I tend to doubt it could be that mature, but I’m not ponying up my credit cards to find out. Then again, this is a company which had the least pleasant booth babes at Comic Con, so perhaps their marketing team needs a bit of retooling. One of their reps told me that The Ultimate Spiderman game “sucked” while she was actually standing in their booth.
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