5 For Friday: Most Wanted (Classic Rock) Rock Band Songs

Rock Band, the critical and financially successful faux-band video game already has quite an amazing set list between the songs available with the game (including gems such as “Say It Ain’t So” by Weezer, “Wanted Dead or Alive” by Bon Jovi, and “Dani California” by REM), and even more new songs available for $2/each every [...]

Best. Game. Ever.

Grand Theft Auto IV’s (GTA IV) release was never in doubt to be a media sensation. The newest installment in the open-world-free-for-all-violent-shooter-with-hookers series has already been panned by lawyer Jack Thompson and others who think GTA will cause us to go pick up hookers and then kill them and spend their days shouting “think of [...]

Wii Sells Big, But No One Is Buying Games

The New York Times opens its technology headline article with:

Nintendo sits atop the home video-game market. Its Wii, though lesstechnologically advanced than Microsoft’s Xbox 360 or Sony’s PlayStation 3, continues to outsell those machines and is now in more than 20 million homes.
So why are retailers having so much trouble selling Wii games?

They go on [...]

No Seriously, Everyone Is Doing It

This year’s NPD (a sales tracking group) report found that 72% of Americans are playing video games up from 64% in 2007. They don’t make any radical conclusions about WHY this is happening, but I have a feeling we can point to a few titles here: Rock Band/Guitar Hero and Wii Sports. Both of which [...]

How The West Was Lost: The XBox 360

Microsoft’s Xbox 360, as far as “gamers” are concerned, should be winning the console war against Nintendo’s Wii and Sony’s Playstation 3 The console, which has only been out two years, already has one of the most critically acclaimed lineups of all-time, it’s got the superior online gaming platform, and at this week’s Game Developer’s [...]