Ten juicy songs from Spinal Tap are heading to Rock Band 2 next week and, well, I guess I’m pretty excited. Truth be told, I haven’t dug out the band set in a while, but if anything will get me fake strumming again, “Stonehenge” will.
Here’s the set-list:
* “(Funky) Sex Farm”
* “(Listen to the) Flower People”
* “America”
* “Big Bottom”
* “Cups and Cakes”
* “Gimme Some Money”
* “Heavy Duty”
* “Hell Hole”
* “Rock ‘n’ Roll Creation”
* ” Stonehenge”
* “Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You Tonight”
A move of generosity or a video game publisher bullied into submission by the gaming community? Either way, those of us who complained about next week’s XBLA Summer of Arcade offering TMNT: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled costing $15 can stop our bellyaching. As reported on Joystiq, Ubisoft is letting the amphibious teen brawler go for $10 (800 MS to you and me).
Though all but one of the “Summer” games are hitting with a 1200 point price tag (platformer ‘Splosion Man being the other tenner title), Re-Shelled got the biggest flack from fans, who weren’t sure giving a 15-year-old game an HD facelift was worth the extra scratch. Now they’ll just have to decide whether it’s worth $10.
The Newfoundland dream team Steve and Jon join Erich for almost exactly an hour of video game tomfoolery. First up, a couple of fighting games that aren’t Street Fighter IV and PC games that aren’t World of Warcraft. Erich partly recants last week’s tirade against The Beatles: Rock Band track list, which leads into a discussion about the future of music games. Steve runs down the news, including more games pushed to 2010, Marvel super heroes invade LittleBigPlanet, and no more Halo after Reach…or is there? This week’s Symposium Ad Nauseum asks disturbing questions like, “Is Link a practicing cannibal?” and “Are we all just figments of Steve Power’s imagination?” Listen if you dare.
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Gamestop has Street Fighter 4, the greatest fighting game ever made, on sale for the ridiculous amount of $20.
Now there is no excuse for you not to go online and get yourself acquainted with my spinning piledriver, unless of course you’re an El Fuerte player, then stay the @#$% away.
Before the days of the magic health recharge that is prevalent in most games today, players were forced to scrounge for life-giving items in their respective game worlds to make it to the next check-point or boss fight or inevitable Game Over screen.
Our favorites and yours below the jump!
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@#$%. That is all.
Variety has just stated that EA’s space pants-crapping simulator is coming to a multiplex near you sometime in the near future. Director DJ Caruso, known primarily for some halfway decent Hitchcock rip-offs (Eagle Eye and Disturbia) starring Shia The Beef is the man in the big seat.
More after the break
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Here’s some lighter news to help all you players out there settle back into the work week grind.
Our fellow stalwart champions of old-school gaming over at Nerdballoon have recently started a little something called “Project D”, in which older, more experienced gamers sit down with their youngling counterparts to try and beat some appreciation of classic digital entertainment into their media-corrupted minds. This of course can only lead to tragedy.
Episode 1 – has just been uploaded, in which we get to hear a slightly less than open-minded 11-year-old attempt to survive a session of Contra. Surprisingly, the graphics “suck”, and the game is not as approachable as “Halo 3 and Call of Duty: World at War”. Oh, and I almost forgot, the music is “boring”.
Bottom line, this is an intriuging concept, and I long to see how today’s gamers deal with things like merciless halfway points, one-hit kills, and all other variety of challenges from the 8-bit era. Please find the link and video after the break.
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