{"id":6270,"date":"2020-07-12T05:17:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T05:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/devolverland-expo-is-a-free-first-person-marketing-simulator"},"modified":"2024-07-19T16:53:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T16:53:52","slug":"devolverland-expo-is-a-free-first-person-marketing-simulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/devolverland-expo-is-a-free-first-person-marketing-simulator","title":{"rendered":"Devolverland Expo – why\u00a0watch marketing when you can play it for free?"},"content":{"rendered":"
If you are familiar with Devolver Digital, you know how wacky and absurdly fun their marketing campaigns can be.<\/p>\n
For years now, it is an annual tradition for them to have their own presentation around the same time as E3, which is nothing but a bloody critique of aggressive marketing, ruthless capitalism, and blind consumerism, cleverly disguised as a videogame press conference.<\/p>\n
And they are not sparing anyone. They are making fun of gamers, other publishers, other games, fake leakers, developers, personalities, and of course, they are mocking even themself.<\/p>\n
The humour is great and although always on the verge of good taste, it never actually crosses that line.<\/p>\n And while they are making us laugh, they are of course presenting their games as well. After all, they are publishers.<\/p>\n This year, they showed:<\/p>\n One of the craziest things they have revealed was shown at the very end.<\/p>\n
\nYup, that’s Microsoft’s Phil Spencer talking with a monster from Carrion during Devoler Direct 2020 (Picture: Devolver Digital)<\/span><\/p>\n\n