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Location of Obama’s ad in Burnout Paradise
CrunchGear — Obama’s ad spot in Burnout Paradise garnished both praise and criticism - mostly the later - but in case you wanted to see it for yourself, the map above marks the location. Just like we said originally though, this ad will only appear in the Xbox 360 version and you have to live in either Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Montana, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio or Wisconsin. Apparently, Barack doesn’t feel the rest of the country needs the so-called ‘gamers vote’. Kidding, just kidding, ...

Gaming Gets Literally Political
Technology - Channel Feed — ... from Obama, obviously getting them to vote “the right way” come November 4. Electronics Arts has confirmed that these ads are placed into the game via Xbox Live updates. It’s inconceivable that the Obama campaign could’ve seen this far ahead when the Burnout Paradise disc was going gold. It’s honestly a bit refreshing to see gaming be involved in politics—without some psycho lawyer throwing off totally stupid comments to gain the attention he desperately seeks. Photo by CrunchGear Tags: Barack Obama, Burnout Paradise, Politcal ads, XBox ...

Burned Out: Obama spent $44K on video game ads this month
CrunchGear — ... There’s only five days till this insufferable election ends, and one of the more interesting stories as far as we’re concerned (“we” being the tech community) was that “Obama buying Burnout ads” from a few weeks ago. Some people freaked out, others were all, “What’s the big deal? Just drive past the ads,” and others were like, “People play Burnout?” It was fun for all of two minutes. ...