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Guitar Hero 5 is coming out. Artists are even now still skeptical?

via news.cnet.com
In the case of Arctic Monkeys, Riley explained, it took multiple visits with the band to show them demos and explain what the Guitar Hero franchise is all about to get permission.

This is pretty shocking. Some bands should be paying Neversoft to get placement into Guitar Hero 5, not nickel and diming and hemming and hawing over *allowing* Neversoft to use their music. Getting listed = guaranteed placement and listening by millions of music fans. These people love guitar rock-- love it enough to fill their living rooms with cheap plastic approximations of musical instruments. That's about as targeted as you can get.

It goes to show that in crazy media times like these, many people don't even really know which way the value chain flows. Maybe because now it flows both ways.

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Posted 3 months ago

JamLegend becomes the web-enabled Rock Band / Guitar Hero that lets you upload and play ANY SONG.

This is phenomenal. My senior project at Stanford was a Dance Dance Revolution game that could take MP3's and turn them into playable DDR steps. But I have to say, it didn't work nearly as well as what the JamLegend guys have done. I just uploaded one of my favorite rap songs to JamLegend. They processed the file, extracted the beats and melodies of the song, and made a playable song based on it.

What's even cooler is you can now play JamLegend just like RockBand / Guitar Hero, with your real guitar. There are instructions on how to set this up for both Mac/PC for GH/Rock Band controllers for all platform controllers PS3, Wii and Xbox 360.

And you can duel your friends online (multiplayer) without ever even being in the same room.

OK, so lets review: JamLegend has created Guitar Hero that a) is super fun multiplayer Flash web game with no download, b) works with any guitar controller you may have lying around, and c) lets you upload any song you want and it will work awesome.

You should play jamlegend here.

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Posted 3 months ago

Good lord. Steve Perlman just changed the world again today at GDC. Fully networked, cloud-based full-res 3D VIDEO GAMES!

OK, that's insane. Forget Playstation 3. Forget Xbox 360. Forget Wii. Forget PC gaming.

OnLive by Rearden Studios is bringing full no-latency video gaming as-if-native-on-your-desk -- only NONE of the hardware crunching the graphics is on your desk. Instead, your computer (even a $700 budget PC, or a super-cheap microconsole that probably will cost the same as a Wii or less) acts as a dumb-terminal that happens to have insanely fast video and no-latency input from your mouse / keyboard / gamepad. All the hardcore graphics hardware is in the cloud on OnLive servers.

For gamers -- no upgrades ever again. The cloud servers get upgraded, and your PC/Mac works even better. Instead of PC gaming with multi-DVD installs, hardware incompatibility and headaches -- it just works, even on cheap computers... or even just a cheap box that hooks up to your HDTV. 

For game publishers -- no piracy, and no multiplayer cheating.

I'm not sure how they can do this, but it's truly the most revolutionary thing I've seen coming out of the tech world in years.

Edit: They have signups for Beta users for this summer. I signed up for sure... can't wait to try it. Wow...

More on Kotaku...

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Posted 8 months ago

People just don't think about the atomic bomb these days the way they used to.

I was born in Vault 101, one of the last safe nuclear fallout shelters operating independently in the Capital Wasteland area (what used to be Washington D.C.)

 Wait, no. it's only a game... it's only a game... it's only a game...

 I am utterly addicted to the Xbox360 game Fallout 3.

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Posted 12 months ago