Pixel Empire Time Out #4: Acclaim's Marketing Madness

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A long tenure publisher from the NES to the PS2, Acclaim Entertainment would start to struggle with the onset of the 2000s. While publishers pulling a marketing stunt isn't unique to them, Acclaim would resort to multiple high-profile stunts around this time, and today we take a look at five of them. Did they actually help shift any extra copies through controversy?

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