June 24, 2008 – 5:45 am
Starting today on the XBox 360 and Thursday on the Playstation 3, you’ll be able to download the full album Doolittle by The Pixies, as well as a pack of three songs from Weezer’s new Red Album. Here’s a rundown of exactly what you’ll get and what you can expect to pay:
The Pixies:
- Crackity Jones - 160 MS Points ($1.99)
- Dead - 160 MS Points ($1.99)
- Debaser - 160 MS Points ($1.99)
- Gouge Away - 160 MS Points ($1.99)
- Here Comes Your Man - 160 MS Points ($1.99)
- Hey - 160 MS Points ($1.99)
- I Bleed - 160 MS Points ($1.99)
- La La Love You - 160 MS Points ($1.99)
- Monkey Gone To Heaven - 160 MS Points ($1.99)
- Mr. Grieves - 160 MS Points ($1.99)
- No 13 Baby - 160 MS Points ($1.99)
- Silver - 160 MS Points ($1.99)
- Tame - 160 MS Points ($1.99)
- There Goes My Gun - 160 MS Points ($1.99)
The whole Doolittle album is available as a big pack of all 14 songs for 1520 MS Points ($18.99).
Weezer:
- Dreamin’ - 160 MS Points ($1.99)
- The Greatest Man That Ever Lived - 160 MS Points ($1.99)
- Troublemaker - 160 MS Points ($1.99)
The pack of all three Weezer songs is downloadable for 440 MS Points ($5.49).
All the tracks released this week are master recordings from the original artists. Sadly, there’s no “Pork and Beans” from Weezer in sight.
June 24, 2008 – 5:00 am
Starting tomorrow, you’ll be able to grab these two new games on the XBox Live Arcade: Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm and Ticket To Ride. The games will be available for the recently standard XBLA price of 800 MS Points ($10) each.
Happy Tree Friends is a game adaptation of the overly violent and disturbing cartoon, putting you in control of Lumpy the Moose, who must save his animal friends from grisly ends. Here’s the official blurb:
Based on the popular and twisted Web series, Lumpy and his accident-prone friends face one gory, horrible disaster after another in Happy Tree Friends False Alarm™! Armed with a helicopter pack, Lumpy rescues his pals by blasting open areas where they may be trapped with flaming napalm or explosive nitro, or he can put them into a deep freeze if they are about to stumble into danger. Try to keep the friends from peril in ten exclusive disaster-filled scenarios, each with three frantic levels, and brand new cutscenes.
Ticket To Ride is based on the award winning board game from 2004 that has players competing to run train tracks across the United States (and, in later expansions, across other countries) to connect cities and complete routes for profit. Here’s the blurb for this one:
All aboard! Travel from coast to coast and visit all the stops on the exciting train adventure Ticket to Ride™. Plan your routes and connect your cities across the country to become the ultimate traveler. Earn points as you claim your tracks and complete your tickets for your chance at the big score. From sea to sea, crisscross the nation as you build the longest route and take home the prize. It’s hours of fun for your family and friends. Who will come out on top when the steam clears? Get your Ticket to Ride and see!
Ticket To Ride is one I’ve personally been looking forward to, but I’m intrigued enough by Happy Tree Friends to at least give the demo a download.
June 23, 2008 – 3:14 pm
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith is the first band-specific disc release in the series, and the final list of included songs has hit the web. I still think it’s odd that a big portion of the included tracks are not, in fact, by Aerosmith. That aside, here are some of the highlights in the release:
- “All Day and All of the Night” by The Kinks
- “Sweet Emotion” by Aerosmith
- “Livin’ on the Edge” by Aerosmith
- “Love in an Elevator” by Aerosmith
- “Rag Doll” by Aerosmith
- “Walk This Way” by Run DMC featuring Aerosmith
- “Dream On” by Aerosmith (previously released as a free download for Guitar Hero 3)
- “Hard To Handle” by The Black Crowes (which is also one of the most fun downloadable tracks for Rock Band)
- “Train Kept A Rollin” by Aerosmith (one of the standard included songs on Rock Band)
The track list reveals that there also will be a guitar battle with Joe Perry, likely similar to the game-halting sparring matches from Guitar Hero 3.
Notably missing from this game are Aerosmith’s cover of “Come Together,” “Dude (Looks Like a Lady),” “Janie’s Got a Gun,” Cryin’,” “Amazing,” “Crazy,” and quite a few other songs that should have been no-brainer inclusions.
The full track list is available on Joystiq.
June 23, 2008 – 2:26 pm
Marvel Entertainment previously announced that their upcoming Captain America film is slated for a May 2011 release, in anticipation of the Avengers movie that’s coming soon thereafter. Now it looks like there could be a different sort of superhero battle in theaters, as Spider-Man producer Laura Ziskin has announced that she’s also looking to May 2011 for releasing the fourth installment in the Spidey franchise. Neither Toby Maguire nor Sam Raimi has signed onto Spider-Man 4 yet, so its future is still a bit uncertain. If both Spider-Man and Cap drop into theaters at the same time, though, who will reign supreme?
Source: LA Times
June 23, 2008 – 6:00 am
Two new Stephen King based series have been solicited from Marvel Comics in the July issue of Diamond Comics’ Previews catalog. The first is the adaptation of the classic novel, The Stand, which I wrote about previously. The comic adaptation is called The Stand: Captain Trips. Here’s the official blurb:
It begins here: the apocalyptic epic battle between good and evil based on the classic bestseller by master of horror Stephen King! On a secret army base in the Californian desert, something has gone horribly, terribly wrong. Something that will send Charlie Campion and his wife and daughter fleeing in the middle of the night. Unfortunately for the Campion family–and the rest of America–they are unaware that all three of them are carrying a deadly cargo: A virus that will spread from person to person like wildfire, triggering a massive wave of disease and death, prefacing humanity’s last stand! Be there as writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Secret Invasion: Fantastic Four) teams with artist Mike Perkins (Captain America) for the first arc in the next great Stephen King event!
The second new series is the third miniseries in the ongoing Dark Tower spinoff. The Dark Tower is Stephen King’s central work, a series of seven novels spanning his whole career and touching nearly all of his other books. The comics series have been prequels to the main action of the novels, and that continues with this newest series, Dark Tower: Treachery. Marvel’s description of the first issue follows:
The ka-tet of Roland, Alain and Cuthbert have returned safely to their home in Gilead. But all is not well. Roland has kept the evil Maerlyn’s Grapefruit and has become obsessed with peering into its pinkish depths despite the deadly toll it’s taken on his health. And what the young gunslinger sees brings him the darkest of nightmares. Meanwhile, Roland’s father has led a posse in search of those who threatened his son’s life in Hambry-John Farson and the Big Coffin Hunters. And in this encounter, Stephen Deschain’s life may be forfeit.
You can preorder the first issue of each series here: Link
June 23, 2008 – 6:00 am
Every week the Skrulls infiltrate more of the Marvel Universe, and last week the epic tale poured into Incredible Hercules #118 and Secret Invasion: Fantastic Four #2. Here’s a look at what we learned from each of these and how they affected the overall plot.
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June 23, 2008 – 6:00 am
Doctor Who is in the home stretch of the fourth season, with only two more to go after this newest one. After a largely companion-less episode last week, we get a largely Doctor-less one this time. Here’s a review of “Turn Left,” with spoilers.
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June 23, 2008 – 6:00 am
Matt Murdock is back in legal action, having taken on a new case. Here’s a review of the latest issue (with spoilers), in stores this Wednesday.
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June 23, 2008 – 5:00 am
I’ve been pretty hard on Activision and Guitar Hero in the past, from their overpriced downloadable songs to their inflexibility with allowing Rock Band peripherals. But now I think they just might be setting a good precedent for the music game genre with their latest decision concerning the upcoming Rock Band-esque Guitar Hero World Tour. Unlike the Guitar Hero: Aerosmith release, World Tour will allow cross-game DLC. This means that any songs you’ve downloaded for your Guitar Hero III game will work with Guitar Hero World Tour as well.
No details or announcements have been made about the surely upcoming Rock Band 2, but having GHWT feature cross-game compatibility for downloadable content should send up a signal that Rock Band 2 will allow you to play your many Rock Band downloads as well. The folks at Harmonix are good at pleasing their fans, and I highly doubt they’d limit DLC compatibility in their next installment, especially now that the distinguished competition is allowing for it.
Source: Kotaku
June 23, 2008 – 5:00 am
A British gaming magazine called X360 reportedly has a new story this month about Midway’s upcoming fighter that pits the Mortal Kombat and DC Comics universes against each other. Among the details revealed in the article are that the game will contain blood, though likely not copious amounts of it, and that at least some of the characters’ costumes will have destructible parts. A photo in the magazine is said to show Superman shattering part of Scorpion’s mask.
The article also reveals what may be a partial or full character roster:
DC Characters:
- Batman
- Superman
- Robin
- Wonder Woman
- Flash
- Green Lantern
- Black Canary
- Hawkman
- Powergirl
Mortal Kombat Characters:
- Sub-Zero
- Scorpion
- Kabal
- Sonya
- Jax
- Raiden
- Kitana
Source: Neogaf via XBox360Fanboy
