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Lame Castle mobile game inspired by Sony's anti-mobile ad campaign
Marcus Rivers may not be as well-known as Kevin Butler when it comes to televised Sony spokespeople, but he's already getting credit as inspiration for a video game. Lame Castle appears in an ad that shoots down mobile games, with Marcus noting that phones "ain't built for big boy games." Apparently, the ad was a throwdown for Bradley Johnson, who left Crystal Dynamics after working on the downloadable game, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. As a newly independent developer, the ad encouraged Johnson to buy the domain name and work on a prototype -- a process that took only a few weeks. "It's been a very quick development cycle, but it's been quite smooth," Johnson told Gamasutra. Johnson and his newly founded development team, Be-Rad Entertainment, have since released Lame Castle on Android, with an iPhone version also in the works. His hope is to eventually work on downloadable games on all platforms. May we suggest an ironic PSP Minis port?
Sony takes aim at iPhone gaming in new PSP ad
Well, it looks like Nintendo isn't the only gaming company that thinks Apple is the "enemy of the future" -- Sony has now also taken aim at iPhone gaming in a new PSP ad featuring Kevin Butler's pint-sized counterpart, Marcus Rivers. In it, Marcus reminds viewers that the iPhone is built for things like "texting your grandma and calling your girl," while the PSP is "built for big boy games," some of which can be had for as little as $9.99. See the whole thing for yourself after the break.
Have you met Marcus 'PSP' Rivers?
He's kind of like Kevin Butler, but he's a lot younger and he's all about the PSP. His name is Marcus, Marcus 'PSP' Rivers (we're not confident that's his Christian name) and he's the face of a new ad campaign that Sony's running to promote the PSP and PSP Go: "Step Your Game Up." We saw a glimpse of the little scamp during Sony's E3 presser, but apparently Marcus will be branching off on his own in the coming months. A PlayStation blog post details the campaign and points out Marcus' YouTube channel which is full of clips from pieces currently running "on over 19 networks." We've embedded a couple of our favorites after the break, so head on past to make with the yucks.
