Playboy has had enough of letting people simply licence games based on the magazine and its bunnies, today revealing a deal with online developer Bigpoint to host games on the magazine’s website.
Sure, her Playboy spread was pretty sexy, but a CEO really shouldn’t be Googling* one of his hired marketing contractors whilst on the job. Computer analysis of Mark Hurd’s computer has discovered he watched some of Fisher’s saucy videos.
When Hugh Hefner launched Playboy back in the ’50s, he hired a photographer to shoot two nude women in 3D. But the price of bundling anaglyph glasses with the magazine was too high. This week, Hef’s dream becomes reality.
Would you pay $US1.99 a month for an app that gets you party jokes “to make you the centre of attention”, excerpts from interviews, and no “fully nude content” whatsoever? That’s what Playboy expects you to do.
Our buddy Dave Zatz stumbled across an article in the current Playboy that revealed that Hulu would soon appear on the Roku digital video player, which already carries Netflix and Amazon VOD. Our guess is, it’s a solid statement from Roku, but not fully concrete till Hulu confirms it. [ZatzNotFunny]
A new show on Playboy TV asks the question that is on all our minds day in and day out: what would you choose, a girl or a gadget? Their Gadget or the Girl reality “program” will force contestants to choose between a weekend vacation with a girl of their choice–as in one of the contestant’s providing, we assume, and not just them naming Evangeline Lilly and doing the biggest fist pump in the history of man–or a random high gadget. What kind of gadget? Crave says it’s going to vary between things like a 60-inch HDTV to an upright arcade box, but they won’t know what it is until they made their decision. So tough! If only I could have Evangeline Lilly as a sounding board for this decision. [CNET]
At least some of you are reading this article because of the word “Playboy” in the headline, but unfortunately, the product isn’t all that provocative. By Alcatel, the Playboy-branded OT-V770A features a 1.3MP camera, 10MB of on-board memory, microSD support and, here’s the kicker, a Playboy bunny logo.
