PCWorld: You're deep in an online game, storming through a gritty urban landscape. The enemy? A gang of brawling thugs armed with baseball bats. You battle furiously, take out the last villain, and look up in triumph. And the first thing your eyes light upon is a billboard hawking Starbucks.

Take note if your favorite online game has billboards, banners, and other signage sprinkled around the landscape. Although some games already contain real ads, many still have signs promoting imaginary companies or services. But that may not last much longer--two online ad networks, the type of company that dreamed up banner ads for Web sites, promise to pump games full of ads for cable TV shows, soft drinks, technology products--you name it.

Invasion of the Video Game Ads [PCWorld]
Advertisers Moving Into Online Games [CoolBusinessIdeas.com]

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