Romantics= Buzzkills
The Romantics are suing Activision (the publishers of Guitar Hero) for including a cover of ‘What I Like About You’ in Guitar Hero II Rocks the 80s. Developers Harmonix are not mentioned in the...
View ArticleRock Band
So we got Rock Band on Wednesday, and have been playing a lot of it. Not non-stop because, well, it’s exhausting. I now have a whole new respect for drummers. Even on Medium, the game kicks my ass....
View ArticleOn Frankness, Mass Effect, and Savior Lumberjacks
Mental note: there are things not to be said before the Christmas season. Bad things may happen. This news saddened me, because Harvey is a very sharp guy, a good guy, and has a strong sense of design....
View ArticleThe Music Wankery Genre Becomes a Three-Front War
A lot of action on the music gaming front: Neversoft has announced two new guitar hero games: an all-Aerosmith version, as well as Guitar Hero IV, a version designed to compete directly with Rock Band,...
View ArticleRush Fail
Sorry I haven’t been around lately, we’ve been hard at work to get an internal demo done, and it’s been leaving me just crispy enough to not feel like posting much of anything. As a reward for your...
View ArticleAl Roker is Less Cool than Geddy Lee
The Today Show hosts play Rock Band 2. In other rock band news, I hunger.
View ArticleHave Music Games Run Their Course?
Quick lunchtime read for you: Rock Band and Guitar Hero sales are slumping. Was this all a fad? Or are they running out of ‘must have’ songs? I still play, but my frequency is way down — to usually...
View Article“Madden Meets Rock Band”
As an ‘official’ part of the ‘media’, I get press releases. You guys don’t hear about most of them, because, well, most of them are crap. And not crap in a good way. Things like remote controls for...
View ArticleMultiplayer VR Experiences Need to Worry About Harassment Right Fucking Now
While I was at E3, Polygon published an article about a new, horrifying problem that to be honest, so far I haven’t even considered in my analysis of why VR has a bumpy road ahead, and that is that...
View ArticleAbout that VR Talk
Last week, I talked about an interesting talk at GDC about Women, Harassment and VR. Some commenters had some choice sentiments about the nature of this experiment. Elizabeth Sampat had some choice...
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