For all attending Comic-Con Friday July 25th. Ill see you at this panel with Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon and DC comic scribe Jimmy Palmiotti.

Nuff said.

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Say it so!!!! my life will be consumed once again!!!!! argh. I was already to hand it over to Age of conan….

In a press release today THQ announced a lot of important things but the only one i care about is Dawn of war 2.

So if you care to read about all the other neato things one of my favorite video game makers is up check it out!

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That’s right, the Rock Band, also known as just “Rock Band”, the ambitious new endeavour by Harmonix, is taking their product on a nationwide tour, just to showcase it’s ooey-gooey goodness. For those of you who live under a rock (*scoff*) when it comes to video games, Rock Band takes the Guitar Hero franchise ideas, turns it to 11 (if you could see me now I’m beaming at my not-so-clever references). Instead of simply a guitar, there’s also a bass, drum set, and mic…so instead of playing at home alone…drunk, you can play with up to 3 friends…drunk.

Here’s the current list.

Las Vegas, NV September 9 – 16, 2007
Milwaukee, WI September 13 – 16, 2007
Sacramento, CA September 20 – 23, 2007
Columbus, OH September 20 – 23, 2007
Seattle, WA September 27 – 30, 2007
Chicago, IL September 27 – 30, 2007
Portland, OR October 4 – 7, 2007
Pittsburgh, PA October 4 – 7, 2007
Oakland, CA October 11 – 14, 2007
Cleveland, OH October 11 – 14, 2007
San Francisco, CA October 17 – 21, 2007
Philadelphia, PA October 18 – 21, 2007
San Diego, CA October 25 – 28, 2007
Baltimore, MD October 25 – 28, 2007
Los Angeles, CA October 31 – November 18, 2007
New York, NY November 1 – 4, 2007
Boston, MA November 8 – 11, 2007
New Jersey November 15 – 18, 2007
Phoenix, AZ November 27 – 30, 2007
Atlanta, GA November 27 – December 2, 2007
Austin, TX December 6 – 9, 2007
New Orleans, LA December 6 – 9, 2007
Dallas, TX December 13 – 16, 2007
Orlando, FL December 13 – 16, 2007

While I haven’t found the “actual” cost of the game yet, I hear it will be around $300…so start saving your lunch money.

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When given a platform, a soap box if you will, it would be in bad taste not to use it. Now, I am not here to argue social policy, or debate on whether or not the fed should increase the rate with the current crisis in the lending market…no, I’m here to step from my regular sized horse to my high horse, and express my disappointment…my outrage, with the sub-par performance of my newly acquired Guitar Hero: Encore - Rocks the 80’s. First off, you’d think with such a long name they might put a little bit more thought into it. I understand that I’m going to be getting 80’s song, and that I take with a grain of salt. I’m not an 80’s fan; however, I’m also not a “hater”. The songs aren’t the problem.

Most Guitar Hero games take the time to offer new: new stages, new characters, new rewards, new. Now granted, maybe I’m looking in the wrong direction, that direction being “new” things, when I’m getting a game that covers the 80s…but for $49.99, I expect something.

The characters have new outfits…woohoo…(that was a quiet woohoo). My favorite feature? The rest of your band looks exactly the same…that’s right. While you’re rocking out in pink hair and spandex, the rest of the band looks like 90s grunge, exactly as they did in Guitar Hero 2. The sets look as if they’ve been dressed up to host some high school retro dance with an 80s theme; the playlist is short. No new features that I can see…and a $49.99 sticker price. This is a $29.99 upgrade; not a game. This would be like buying the expansion to Warcraft 3 as if it were the game…and then being shocked when the gameplay is short. Well you know what…I didn’t see expansion anywhere on the box. It wasn’t really priced at the typical expansion pricing. Granted…there is fun to be had after a few beers, when you can get over the pain of emptying your wallet…but that’s it. No more single player attempt to unlock the levels; I stopped caring.

I would like to thank the semicolon for this article. Not only was the game so boring that I lost interest in it, but I lost interest in writing about it enough that I researched a punctuation mark that I’ve avoided using all my life.

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$39.95

Publisher: Last Gasp

The Official Dealer McDope dealing game

I finally found something to replace my A-team board game I got at the thrift store for $1 a couple years back, although this seems like more fun.

Wheel, Deal, and Keep It Real! We’ve all had fantasies of making the million dollar deal. We’ve even worked out some of the details — indulged in thoughts of exotic dope ports, tons of contraband, and that enormous bank roll in our pocket. Lots of folks are coming out these days telling us what dealing big time was all about, but we know one thing for sure. McDope went to all those places, played and panicked, scored and whored, and now that he is “legit,” he wants to pass along to you how it was really done. So sit back and cop to some fantastic entertainment. Leave Doobietown, USA and journey to an intriguing port of call, score caches of dope and return home anxious to sell. Sounds simple, and it is — as long as karma, skill, and the roll of the dice are on your side, and you don’t get hassled at any borders, ripped off by your partner, or busted. Yeh, busted. Lots of dealers go to jail. Yes, dealing is a high risk/high gain situation. Remember, all dealers play hard, but they don’t all play fair. When in doubt, ask yourself what McDope would do if he were there. Out of print for many years, the Dealer McDope Dealing Game is now back in print for a whole new generation. The original set goes for over $100 on Ebay and to collectors.

And if you don’t feel like buying a board game and feel a like playing a free web browser based game along the same line check out Pimp War. This link in no way endorses the goals or ideals of pimps or pimp culture…….except in a web based browser form……also I’m in game #302: August Big Daddy……..under the handle Koolito. (FIND ME AND JOIN MY CREW!!!!)

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World of Warcraft just announced their new expansion, “Wrath of the Lich King.” Videos and images abound at the official Blizzard site.

According to Slashdot:

…the introduction of the Death Knight, the first new class since WOW’s launch ‘World of WarCraft’s first Hero Class is a plate-wearing tank/DPS hybrid that works a little something like this: When players hit level 80, they’ll be able to embark on a quest (similar in difficulty to the Warlock’s epic mount quest, back before the level cap was raised to 70) that unlocks the ability to create a Death Knight character. The Death Knight starts at a high level (somewhere around 60 or 70, though Blizzard isn’t certain yet), so you won’t have to grind your way back up all over again. It’s intended as an alternative, advanced class for end-game use only.

If only I still had interest…my attention has been diverted elsewhere.

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The Guitar Zeros convert their Guitar Hero controllers into real guitars and play actual songs. The guitars hook “right into the laptop” says Owen Grace, 32 ” I programmed the music-generating software in two months.” The music sounds like early punk with of course synthy sounding guitar.

What I really like about the Guitar Zeros site is the attempt to organize Guitar Hero Nights across the nation. Dubbed karaoke version 2.0 if you feel like finding the nearest Guitar Hero gathering or want to let more people know about check it out.

The strangest thing is that I found this and the quote above in blender magazine, which is a pretty horrible music magazine and it never usual offers anything interesting. Free subscription…..you have made me proud.

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Music for ants is doing a fine job of convincing me to buy a Wii.  Here are a couple of my favorite “Mii” avatars the mentioned site put up. 

  JARVIS COCKER

YEAH YEAH YEAH’S 

Check out Music for ants for more musical Mii(s)

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