Gamer Marketing

When making something you want gamers to buy, make sure it's super shiny and ridiculous.

Vital Statistics

Date: July 23, 2012

Written and Performed by: Graham Stark, Kathleen De Vere, Paul Saunders

Story Graphics: Paul Saunders

CheckPoint Graphics: Graham Stark

Boom!: Kate Stark

Music: Bradley Rains

Produced by: Graham Stark, Paul Saunders

Today

Samsung enters the gaming market by being patronizing. Find out how on today's CheckPoint.

Stories

• Grip Games is making a PSN foosball video game.
• Universal Studio's Halloween Horror Nights features Silent Hill.
• A russian hacker found ways to circumvent Apple's iOS verification servers.
• Namco Bandai and Tecmo are having a bikini arms race.
• The Game Genie is back! Sorta...
• Samsung announces a stereotypical "gaming" laptop and checkpoint responds in kind.

Coming Up

All the games and gameness in the game face!

Trivia

• The credits were done in "Gamer Mode" which apparently involves lens flares and neon lights.