Is Angelina Jolie aware of this?

Monday 28 April 2008
I may have just received the oddest press release in a long while. I've summarised it below...

Try and take this all on board ok?

Major League Eating: The Game - To promote the release of this new Wii title, in which players have to gorge themselves on anything from pizzas to burgers, developer Mastiff gave away free $15 food gift certificates to anyone who entered a prize draw.

Right, fifteen notes towards a meal is a pretty good offer, nice dinner, bottle of wine with my girlfriend and some charming ambiance. That's not the issue. The issue is, of course, the premise of the game.

Aren't American kids becoming increasingly obese? But fuck it, lets make a sport out of it and they wont feel so bad, burn carbs while you absorb them, what a great message.

Not to mention the simulated waste of food. Think of all the starving kids out there who need that food more than you. Don't you have an ounce of sympathy? Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt can't possibly adopt them all (try as they might) and they need to eat too right? You selfish bugger!

Just to clarify, I am being entirely sarcastic and probably dying on my arse here, but this sounds like a stupid, stuuuupid idea for a game, albeit in good humour, but sending out an equally stupid message.

I wonder if it'll see a PAL release? What then? News reports of Jamie Oliver sabotaging the delivery ships and planes with home-made Molotov cocktails made out of entirely organic and healthy ingredients? It could happen...

...maybe

Much Love,

Dave

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