Even more convinced not to buy the game. Soulcaliber V is more the same and the ads are desperate way to get attention. The controversy over Soul Caliber being one word instead of two has gone away?

@Lazyaza said:

Dem women's be getting objectified in game advertizing again! How dare companies use full-proof time proven strategies to sell their products, the fiends!

I lol'd. And agreed.

@jakob187: Hey I'm not the only one who thought Patrick wrote this! I guess this is saying a lot about Patrick's love of bondage crotches.

It's video games people, get over it. Seems such a pathetic thing to get upset about when there's an whole lot more troubling issues out there.

@Harkat said:

@Lazyaza said:

Dem women's be getting objectified in game advertizing again! How dare companies use full-proof time proven strategies to sell their products, the fiends!

I lol'd. And agreed.

When does sex ever sell?

I actually thought the first ad was a somewhat humorous tongue-in-cheek nod to the fact that the women in Soul Calibur have been ridiculously proportioned (and ridiculously under-clothed) women in their games. It was getting almost creepy, the fact that they didn't really ever acknowledge how women looked in Soul Calibur.

Now, I just find this whole campaign hilarious. If there's anything Soul Calibur could use a tad more of is poking fun of itself.

I'm disgusted at the objectification of creepy old S&M acrobats with knifes.

WHERE IS THE SHARE BUTTON?

I may not be a fan of Alex in general, but he can sure write some interesting and funny news stories. Very nice article, Mr. Navarro.

Considering the way marketing of videogames usually occurs - reduced coverage of females and burly tough guys - I would say this is news. Voldo is neither of those.

@JTHomeslice said:

I love you Alex.

I love that Joystiq just posted about how this is a fake. If Alex had held off posting this for just ten minutes, he could have avoided the awkward "UPDATE: I was wrong. Let's move on." that will surely come.

Missed you too. High-five!

@DeeGee: You know, considering the frivolity of this news, I'm not really all that upset that this is fake. If nothing else, it was good for a laugh.

You say this is not news?

I say this is the best kind of news.

Alex kill Patrick.

It kinda looks like Voldo killed one of Bowser's kids and then shoved the carcass on his crotch.

I love it.

That's a cod piece you morons!

So I'm going to guess that the third advert will be one of the characters butt and we'll have covered the triangle of obvious sex appeal.

Stealing headlines from Kotaku, I see. We all know they are the industry leader in game journalism.

This is awesome, whether it's fake or not.

Swallow sadness. Send some faxes. :(

@DeeGee said:

I love that Joystiq just posted about how this is a fake. If Alex had held off posting this for just ten minutes, he could have avoided the awkward "UPDATE: I was wrong. Let's move on." that will surely come.

What are you more mad about, the lack of investigative journalism regarding Voldo's crotch, or the realization Namco isn't creative?

I am pro-boobs and no in the least insulted by them.

@Alex said:

@DeeGee: You know, considering the frivolity of this news, I'm not really all that upset that this is fake. If nothing else, it was good for a laugh.

and laugh I did.

@Alex I hope that "raises" pun in "Raises You One Spiky, Misshapen Voldo Crotch" wasn't unintentional.

I prefer seeing boobs

@Grimluck343 said:

@Harkat said:

@Lazyaza said:

Dem women's be getting objectified in game advertizing again! How dare companies use full-proof time proven strategies to sell their products, the fiends!

I lol'd. And agreed.

When does sex ever sell?

I know right? Everyone knows those evil corporations only put tits and nice faces on their ads to suppress womankind, it has nothing to do with that silly theory of supply and demand.

@mrangryface said:

I prefer seeing boobs

Spiky misshapen crotches between boobs?

I really don't see what's wrong with using Ivy's boobs as an ad. It's an ad. They're supposed to draw attention and get people to talk about them. Guess what, it totally worked.

Clearly fake, just like any real outrage over the first ad.

As fake as Ivy's breasts.

@mazik765 said:

I am pro-boobs and no in the least insulted by them.

You should be insulted by what they think of our intelligence though.

@Grimluck343 said:

@Harkat said:

@Lazyaza said:

Dem women's be getting objectified in game advertizing again! How dare companies use full-proof time proven strategies to sell their products, the fiends!

I lol'd. And agreed.

When does sex ever sell?

I know right? Everyone knows those evil corporations only put tits and nice faces on their ads to suppress womankind, it has nothing to do with that silly theory of supply and demand.

Kind of horrified by the number of people in these comments saying that the Ivy ad is somehow inoffensive "because it works."

Apparently no advertiser ever can be faulted for being creepy, as long as the ad's effective! Neat!

@Harkat said:

@Lazyaza said:

Dem women's be getting objectified in game advertizing again! How dare companies use full-proof time proven strategies to sell their products, the fiends!

I lol'd. And agreed.

When does sex ever sell?

Whether its controversy, marketing, or both I have a feeling they're not going to get rid of Ivy's really big boobs any time soon. As a one time fan of the series, this is the only thing that reminds me this series exists at all. So exploitation of sex successful? Sure let's go with that for now.

people are complaining about the Ivy ad? SMH.

People getting offended by boobs is hilarious.

Bro, stop apologizing for giving us awesome stuff! This is hilarious! And hilarity alone makes it like a "probably" on the "is it news?" scale.

Cool...now you're like Sterling but without the fun chubby foreigner bit to make me actually like this whole thing.

I have no affinity for the series, but I hope this is true because gaming needs a serious smack up the side of the face every now and then and just indulge in the stupidity of this hobby.

isn't like... SOPA happening now? That is kind of news, I would imagine people are curious if it would pass how it may affect the site. Maybe this has already been covered, if so I apologize.

The ad looks fine, but Ivy in the actual game looks pretty ridiculous. Honestly though Ivy has been getting worse and worse as the series went on and they seem to have no intentions of reeling it back a bit.

@North6: Nothing particularly new has been happening with SOPA since the end of the year. Though a few game developers have come out against it (and the ESA has come out in favor of it), the bill itself has more or less just kind of been laying dormant since Congress went on break.

Suffice it to say, as soon as a development relevant to the audience here rears its head, we'll report on it. Otherwise we'd just be posting "SOPA still exists, some people still hate it" every day.

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@Alex said:

... whoever cooked this up should be hired by Namco Bandai to do all their Japanese advertising from here on out.

Crotchvertizing

@Alex: This is simply why I love video game news. This just in, SOPA still exists. Back to you, giant purple dong!

I'm sorry but that ad kind of works on me, boooooobs!