Sony’s PlayStation 2 turned nine years old on October 26th, and while I didn’t have the funds to throw a big office party, I thought I’d post here to relate some of my favorite PS2 memories and encourage you to post your own:
Kingdom Hearts: I still remember the commercials for this game, each featuring one [...]
With all its innovations, peripherals and gameplay features, Guitar Hero approximates the experience of playing a guitar pretty accurately. What it hasn’t yet mastered, however, is making the player feel more like another rock star of the modern world: the air guitarist. Like the ancient Celtic bard, the air guitarist floats through life as though [...]
Some people are really, really good at Rock Band. These are truly kings and queens of partying. You invite them thinking, “What the heck? Everybody can play on Easy, right? And I can’t think of anyone who doesn’t know the words to ‘Livin’ on a Prayer.” Then, two hours and six albums later, you find [...]
The most rockin’ game on the modern consoles pretty much demands an encore, and EA is prepared to deliver:
EA announced today that the “first DLC” (that means there’ll be more, right?) for recently released Brütal Legend will be arriving November 3 and November 5 on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, respectively. Named “Tears of the [...]
I’ve only seen a scant handful of Flight of the Conchords episodes, but I’m pretty familiar with the duo’s tunes, so I was pretty excited to learn that their music may be coming to Rock Band:
HBO’s hilarious Flight of the Conchords lost out to 30 Rock for best comedy in this year’s Emmy Awards, but [...]
If you thought Italy’s biggest contribution to the gaming world was the upcoming Dante’s Inferno, you’ve just been proven wrong. As it turns out, the Italians love their music games more than anybody else in the world (so far.) They’ve recently set a world record using Guitar Hero 5, winning the recognition of gamers everywhere:
At [...]
I think downloadable content is the future of the video gaming industry. When I take a look at popular games today, it seems that many of them have been bolstered by online expansion packs, new characters and maps, or add-on episodes available through digital retailers. The first game that comes to mind with this sort [...]
The Beatles: Rock Band will soon be upon us, and we’ll know in a few days whether its sheer star power can rescue the music-games industry from its current doldrums. Whether The Beatles is more ‘Hey Jude’ or ‘Within You, Without You’ (apologies to all both of you WYWY fans?) we can’t say, but we [...]
The music games industry is struggling. Nobody can deny the slowing sales of games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero. It seems America has gotten over the plastic-guitar craze and will soon be moving on to more traditional games. But don’t count Harmonix out yet. The music game grand-daddies, once a humble ‘music tech’ company, [...]
One great rock show can change the world, but one great rock game might break the bank. Gamers and Fab Four fans grumbling about the cost of The Beatles Rock Band may be happy to learn that Viacom shares their troubles. 1UP tells us:
…NPD analyst Anita Frazier said, “Of all genres, the music/dance genre has [...]
