Get Your Rockband Together For New Song DLC Tuesday 2/26

By Bryan | February 27, 2008 9:41 pm |
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Playstation3, Xbox 360

The Rockband DLC for 2/26 on XBLA and PSN has arrived as a welcomed addition to the music collection Harmonix has provided us so far. While this isn’t a new band being added to our running set list, it’s at least from a band with a significant following. This week’s Rockband DLC is the Nine Inch Nails (NiN) Pack (440 points/$5.50):

  • Nine Inch Nails – March of the Pigs (160 points/$2)
  • Nine Inch Nails – The Collector (160 points/$2)
  • Nine Inch Nails – Perfect Drug (160 points/$2)

I don’t own any NiN cd’ or anything, but when they’re on the radio or a friend plays them, I dig it. It seems like most people are this way, so hopefully this pack will receive a decent response from the Rockband crowd. If not, there’s always next week…..

Obsolete Xbox 360 HD-DVD Price Cut!

By Bryan | February 22, 2008 6:21 pm |
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Xbox 360

It hurt to see the walls crumble around HD-DVD last month. With Toshiba calling it quits this week, I feel almost as bad as I did when the iPhone price drop happened. Although I’m not a huge fan of DVD’s, I had a chance to pick up the Xbox 360 HD-DVD player for relatively cheap and took advantage of it. For $180 I managed to snag the HD-DVD player with King Kong included, Transformers, Batman Begins, 5 mail away movies, and Heroes Season 1 Box Set. I thought it was a good deal, so I bought 2 and sold one, bringing my final price down to around $50.

While you won’t get everything I just mentioned, the price of the Xbox 360 HD-DVD player will be dropping to $49.99 relatively soon. Not an awful price for a high definition player. But WHY WOULD ANYONE BUY HARDWARE FOR A DEAD FORMAT? It doesn’t make any sense to me. If anything, Microsoft should send every unsold unit to the CEO of Toshiba’s house as a “thank you” for giving up the fight.

If you’re foolish enough to buy this because of the cheap price, I’ve got a laser disc player and a bridge in Florida I’d like to sell, so please feel free to email me.

Source: Ars Technica

More Fable 2 Details Announced At GDC

By Bryan | February 21, 2008 4:11 am |
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Xbox 360

Today at the Game Developers Convention, developer Peter Molyneux announced some new details about Lionhead Studios highly anticipated sequal, Fable 2. Molyneux explained that players will be able to get a head start making money for Fable 2 before the game is even launched. Lionhead Studios has plans to release an XBLA game that provides you with a few different gambling opportunities to make you some gold. When the actual game launches, you’ll be able to import your money over to the game so you don’t start out poor.

Molyneux also announce true co-op play in the Fable sequel, where you and a friend can connect to either one of your worlds and explore it together. Your character keeps all the experience, items, and money that you have gained while adventuring in your friends world as well. This makes me wonder if your “friend” would be able to steal items that only drop once in your game. That would be awful.

But that wasn’t all. Molyneux delved deeper into why the money making mini-game would be released prior to the launch of Fable 2. Apparently Lionhead Studios decided that wolves shouldn’t drop swords when killed, nor should they drop gold. That means your going to have to earn your money the hard way: stealing it from your friends.

Source: Kotaku

Portal: The Three Hour Game of the Year That Was Pushed Aside

By Bryan | February 19, 2008 3:23 am |
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Playstation 3, Xbox 360

With the success of Portal, one of the many games in the Orange Box, the debate has begun as to whether a three hour game can actually hold it’s own against giants like Halo. What exactly are we looking for from new games? Quality content or length? While some have voted Portal as 2007 Game of the Year, others have rejected it as anything more than part of a compilation.

So many games have come out that haven’t even been worth the cost of the disc it was printed on. Most of them even offer 10-20 hours of play. These games wind up on some back shelf, never sold, and never discussed but they’re still considered in a category many are reluctant to allow Portal into.

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N+ Proves Ninja’s Are Better Than Pirates

By Bryan | February 19, 2008 2:16 am |
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Xbox 360

Every once in a great while, a game so mindless but yet so captivating comes along and sucks away all your free time. The most classic example of this would be Snood. Many have found themselves capable of repeating the epic poems in between the levels of Snood due to how addictive it is. N+ is one of those games.

The original N is a simple flash computer game that finds you running around a 2D world as a stick figure ninja. But your enemies are not pirates in this game, they’re robots. Prepare to fight your way past these metallic beasts as you hop from ledge to ledge in an attempt to gain the highest score.

N+ will be the downfall of productivity for many individuals. Arriving on XBLA this Wednesday, players old and new will get to experience cooperative, survival, and race modes on top of an enhanced single player mode. Everything looks a little sharper and the addition of simple Ragdoll physics will make each death more funny then frustrating.

All it takes is 800 Microsoft Points for reality to slip away, leaving you and N+ alone for some personal time.

Get Your Rockband Together For New Song DLC Tuesday 2/18

By Bryan | February 19, 2008 1:51 am |
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Playstation3, Xbox 360

It looks like Harmonix was just testing how far they could push us this month with some of the past weeks DLC. But this week may just make up for the whole things. Although we’re not adding any new artists to Rockband this week; these songs are from three great bands and aren’t some random unpopular song they released.

  • Garbage – Why Do You Love Me (160 points/$2)
  • Weezer – El Scorcho (160 points/$2)
  • Stone Temple Pilots – Sex Type Thing (160 points/$2)

 

This will be the second song by Garbage, and third by Weezer and Stone Temple Pilots in Rockband, with one being the original game track. El Scorcho follows the path of My Name Is Jonas and Buddy Holly with the simplistic drum beats, allowing most people to beat it on Expert with little difficulty. Sex Type Thing is another STP song that I didn’t know the name of but could sing every word when I loaded it up. It really has a good 90’s feel to it.”Why Do You Love Me” is probably the least well known on this list, but is still a really fun song to get your female singer involved a bit more.

I’m going to start rating each week from now on.

Rating: 3.5/5

Future Rockband Song Line-up Revealed?

By Bryan | February 14, 2008 4:18 pm |
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Playstation 3, Xbox 360

 

Scorehero member laconic posted on their forums a sizeable list of songs that he found within a .bin file from “(Arguable) Punk Pack 02″. The list does include all the songs that have been released so far, but unfortunately without Harmonix confirming this information, there’s no guarantee. While the original list didn’t include any artist names, Scott from Joystiq put together a nice neat list assuming the original artist of each band would be the version they released.

I find the list disappointing considering that most of these bands have existing songs already on the game. However, the possibility that “Still Alive” is actually the Portal song and the two The Who songs are exciting to see. Harmonix did promise full albums from bands when they were launching the game. Having felt the greedy swipe from XBLA Arcade before, I wholeheartedly expect to see the Nirvana songs on that list being sold individually and then finally as a complete cd for a cheaper price after everyone has bought the packs.

Take a look at the list after the break

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Get Your Rockband Together For New Song Tuesday 2/12

By Bryan | February 13, 2008 12:34 am |
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Playstation 3, Xbox 360

Recovering from an awful start for Rockband in February, this week is a step in the right direction. I don’t think it was exactly what I was looking for, but I may consider buying all three of these songs.

  • The Clash – Complete Control (160 points/$2)
  • The Police - Truth Hits Everybody (160 points/$2)
  • The Ramones – Teenage Labotomy (160 points/$2)

The Ramones

Apparently the theme they decided on this weak was based around “The” being in the band name. At least they picked the good ones. You can’t really go wrong with any of these songs but I find it funny that they decided to add another song by The Police when we already have a three pack by them. there are plenty of other bands out there who haven’t had a song up for download on Rockband, so why should they now have four? I’m a big fan of both The Clash and The Ramones so they are definitely a welcomed addition. I feel that adding bands like these will make Rockband a game that will span more generations then most games do. Although you might not be a fan of your dads belting out “Guess I’ll have to break the news, that I’ve got no mind to lose”, atleast he won’t be kicking you off the TV anytime soon.

Did You Know Forever Meant 2008? Duke Nukem Did

By Bryan | February 11, 2008 10:22 pm |
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Playstation 3, Xbox 360

Apparently as a follow-up to the office Christmas teaser that 3D Realms released, President Scott Miller of 3D Realms stated that he feels “very confident” that they are on target to release Duke Nukem Forever this year. While nothing has been confirmed on which systems the game will be debut on, Miller did say that “hitting the big three makes the most sense (PC, PS3, 360)”. I wasn’t aware that the PC was back into the “big three” status, considering recent failures like Unreal Tournament 3.

I’m calling your bluff Scott Miller. Your status as President of 3D Realms (which I’m sure by now is a volunteer position) does not mean that what you say holds weight. Over 10 years ago I held a yard sale to sell all my old junk just to buy  Duke Nukem 3D. I would spend hours on my dial-up modem through Prodigy trying to get death match running or reading up on their BBS site. In the time since then, you’ve shoveled the offspring of Duke Nukem and Lara Croft down our throats and promised us the most amazing FPS our Bruce Campbell quoting minds could think of. 

So this time we’re suppose to believe that you’re serious? Or is this just a ploy to push Duke Nukem 3D back on us through Xbox Live Arcade? I figure that for this game to even remotely live up to it’s hype, it would need to have around 500 different levels. If you need more time, just let us know! 

Source: Bizjournals

Get Your Rockband Together For New Song Tuesdays 1/29

By Bryan | February 4, 2008 5:17 pm |
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Playstation 3, Xbox 360

If you’re reading a console video game blog and you’re still not sure what Rockband is, your either completely out of the loop or you only own a Nintendo Wii and are in denial. Rockband offers you and your three friends the chance to rock out on guitar, bass, drums, and you can even sing. By far the best part about the game itself is its ever increasing library of downloadable songs. Each week you can expect to have access to at least three new songs and this week is no exception.

  • Smashing Pumpkins – Siva (160 points / $2)
  • Rush – Working Man* (160 points / $2)
  • Coheed and Cambria – Ten Speed (Of God’s Blood and Burial)* (160 points / $2)

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What’s truly unfortunate is that I didn’t put those asterisk their just to look cool. Every time you see that never positive symbol, you’ll unfortunately be spending your hard earned gig money on a cover song. While you learn to live with some of the cover songs they offer, what is baffling is the asterisk next to the Coheed and Cambria song. How could they possibly offer up a downloadable cover song from a band that has one of their actual songs already on the initial game disc. Hopefully the truth is that there was not a usable master copy and it’s not that Harmonix got cheap.

While each person is entitled to their own opinion in music, it’s pretty safe to say that this is a week offering.


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