MTV and Harmonix, the makers of the highly successful game series Rock Band, have finally figured out the biggest reality in their market segment—that is that they were the biggest logjam to taking this concept to the stratosphere. In my post of just over a year ago called, It’s Time For A New Music Standard, […]
Today there’s a headline in Kotaku (a popular gaming site) entitled, “In Defense of the Classic Controller“. The story is about the demise of the classic gaming joystick/controller due directly to the popularity of Nintendo‘s Wii console. It’s so popular that both Sony and Microsoft are moving to similar, or even more advanced, designs taking […]
Okay, I’ve had enough of this one…. This past Easter I was at a family member’s house and we all had a blast playing Rock Band. I mentioned it to a few people today, and how much fun we had, and got into another in a long list of debates with people (musicians mainly) who […]
I’ve been looking for a decent phone for a while now and being pretty much stuck with Verizon Wireless means that I have no choice really but to only choose from their phones. They’re not known for having the greatest selection of phones or phones with the best features but you could do worse. Until […]
We saw the latest Pixar–Disney movie, WALL-E, this weekend. I caught it along with ten other family members and friends. This is a movie, as I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been waiting on for a long time. A friend of mine over at THQ—a game publisher that had the rights to create all the games based on […]
For some time now I’ve wanted to try out a fairly new board game called, 1960: The Making of the President. Something about it sounded like my kind of game. I got a chance to play it Wednesday night and was so taken with it that I did something I rarely do and played the […]
Okay, I just bought a new laptop. A bit of background. I previously had an Alienware Area-51 laptop that my previous employer bought for me. Since I’m in the games business it had to have that “I’m one of you” cachet value. The catch here was that the thing weighs like 20 pounds, burns your […]
I’m writing this entry now in Firefox. That isn’t new. However, what is new is that I’m writing this in Firefox that’s running on a flavor of the Linux operating system known as Ubuntu. No, I haven’t abandoned Windows. I’m a gamer so that’s a bit difficult to do these days. I’m currently running this […]
Guitar maker Gibson apparently decided that the rejuvenation of the music industry thanks to the smash hits Guitar Hero (and its siblings) and Rock Band was too much good news. They’ve gone suit happy suing everyone remotely involved in it. This includes Wal-Mart, Target, Toys R Us, Amazon, K-Mart, Gamestop…… (I need a breather here… […]
I’ve been playing around with the family in Rock Band after having an abortive experience with Guitar Hero III (after Easy I found it nearly impossible but remember I am an old fart for these kinds of games now). Anyway, it seems obvious that the popularity of these games has driven quite a bit of […]
There’s a blog post up from Robert Bowling, the Community Manager for game developer Infinity Ward titled, “They Wonder Why People Don’t Make PC Games Anymore” which, of course, blames everything on piracy. It’s more garbage from a developer that expects everyone to roll wheel barrows of money up to their door for the least […]
The Mitchell Report is out and it set the sporting world on fire. It unmasked a number of players as having taken part in steroid abuse but, then again, not nearly as many as was rumored to be included. I wanted to be interested in this story but I just couldn’t get myself to care. […]