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Remember last week when we all got worked up over a mysterious PlayStation 3 teaser video? It was pretty exciting. Anyway, the subject of the teasing was set to be revealed today, October 5. So now we can reveal that the teaser was teasing *drum roll*... a new PlayStation 3 advert! Er, yay!

So basically it was an advert for an advert. Genius. Here is that advert:

Admittedly it's a very good advert and particularly enjoyable if you are a PlayStation 3 convert and can play spot the game characters. But it's still just an advert. It doesn't need a teaser. Repeat: adverts don't need adverts. Or maybe I'm out of touch - do you want to see more adverts for adverts? How about adverts for adverts of adverts. Let me know in the comments (or leave a comment teasing that you will be leaving the actual full comment next week).

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