Monday, February 14, 2011

Microsoft resorts to slatternly avians to sell Bing

Angry Birds Seasons is a sort of additional Angry Birds game which is periodically updated with season-appropriate content. This month it was Valentines' day. From the games losing screen:

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"Bing and Decide". This is apparently one of Microsoft's thousands of Bing-oriented ad slogans. When you select it, you get:

Photo Feb 13 11 37 16 p mOoh, cheeky! Very cheeky indeed! Also, I hadn't realised that Bing's mobile interface was quite so hideous.

Just to give you an idea of the sort of game this is, here's the ending screen:

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Look at them, shamefully aroused by the just-completed porcine genocide, cloacae at the ready...

Microsoft, when your PR people told you that sex sells, I don't think that they meant sociopathic bird sex.

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