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This month, the first two picks stemmed from the recent revelation of new downloadable songs for everyone-who-visits-my-house’s favorite video game, Rock Band. It would seem that the first release of March will be a three song collection called the “Thrash Pack”. The first song on that list? At The Gates’ “Blinded By [...]

I sat down to write a review of The King of Kong: A Pocketful of Quarters this morning, but was sidetracked by reading these clarifications by Twin Galaxies.
The movie portrays Steve Wiebe as an underdog outsider in the world of competitive gaming, and Billy Mitchell as something akin to royalty. But after reading Walter [...]

Saturday afternoon, I rearranged the living room furniture, and was able to wrangle a small group into playing the new music video game Rock Band with me. I had already “unlocked” all of the songs ahead of time, so we had plenty of tracks to choose from.
It was the first time I really got [...]

The last week has been a trying one. Laura and Henry away, lots of extra commuting and long, long hours getting the new office open, daily battles with the phone company to get my PRI installed. I was just shy of total meltdown yesterday.
But the thing that brought me back? Guitar Hero [...]

The “Next Big Thing” with gaming appears to be the ability to transform an in-game piece of footage into something that the whole world can view online. While sharing clips was possible on games such as Burnout Revenge, those clips were only visible to other people who actually owned the game. No longer [...]