Games

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 Read More

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 Read More

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 Read More

When I was growing up, Sierra On-Line was a cornerstone of my development. Not the current Sierra that makes mostly Xbox Live Arcade games, but the original incarnation of the company, under the nurturing watch of Ken and Roberta Williams. After moving Read More

Florida attorney Jack Thompson has been a thorn in the side of the gaming industry for a long time now, and it seems the Florida Bar has no love for him, either. Thompson has been found guilty of 27 counts of professional misconduct, and last week he Read More

I got my copy of Ninja Gaiden II last week and dropped it into my XBox 360 with every intention of playing through the game and writing up a thorough review. I played the original Ninja Gaiden games way back on the NES, but I never got around to playing Read More

Yesterday I paid a trip to the local Circuit City to take advantage of this week’s discounted XBox Live 1600 Points Cards, down to $14.99 from $19.99. I buy a ton of Rock Band songs and the occasional map packs or XBLA games, so I figured Read More

Four new tracks are available for download on Rock Band this week, all from small bands promoted by MTV2. Here’s a rundown of what you can get and for how much: “Moving To Seattle” by The Material – 80 MS Points ($1) “A Read More

Harmonix has been shopping around ideas to consumers via a recent survey in the hopes of getting input on the packaging for the sequel to the immensely successful Rock Band. The survey contains two box art possibilities for Rock Band 2 and has folks Read More

You’d think Activision would be doing everything they could with Guitar Hero to make it appeal to fans over the esteemed Rock Band competition, but it seems like they just keep getting it wrong. This time it’s a bit of news that has trickled Read More

Yesterday I posted the first installment of my two-part interview with Keiko Takamura. She’s a virtual celebrity in the world of Second Life and an actual up and coming musician named Amy Te offline. You might have seen her recently in a spotlight Read More