And by the big leagues, we mean a bigger-than-life Guitar Hero-esque game being played on a massive megatron wall sized screen. The Kasabian football players kick the soccer ball at their colored square as the Arduino-controlled contact sensors are illuminated by falling colored blocks.
The resulting game is both severely awesome and ridonkulous. Check out the video after the jump.
I don’t blame you for loving your job of sawing down trees (deforestation is so hot right now), but aren’t you starting to feel a little embarrassed about your lack of fabulousness? Everyone is staring at you, you can feel their eyes burning in the back of your skull. You know they talk about your lack of lumber-style when your not listening.
Well listen up, girl, because these colorfully designed axes from Best Made Co. can add that bit of woodman-chic spice back into your wood chucking. The 3.5 fine wood axes are lovingly handcrafted, making you look stylish as you play with your wood.
Look, you don’t need to try this hard to attract geeks. All you need is to invest in an electronics section, even if all you sell is PS1 games and a few calculators, it’s the thought that counts and us geeks realize that. This plagiarist activity isn’t going to win you any brownie points.
The two living members of seminal grunge band Nirvana, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, are none too happy with former band member Kurt Cobain’s appearance in Guitar Hero 5. While the two have no legal say over Kurt Cobain’s image, an official statement released by the two says “While we were aware of Kurt’s image being used with two Nirvana songs, we didn’t know players have the ability to unlock the character.”
Unlocking the character allows users to select Cobain’s image to sing any song on the game, something that Cobain would likely have disapproved of if he had not committed suicide in 1994. Both Grohl and Novoselic have suggested that Activision “re-lock” the Cobain character so that he can only be used for the Nirvana songs available for play in-game. I think that’s fair. What would Kurt do?
Music fans who prefer the sounds of Ravi Shankar to Metallica might prefer the game Sitar Hero, rather than Rock Band and Guitar Hero, or even Washboard Hero. If this game existed, would it be a hit? Possibly in India. I don’t think the sitar is a major player in American pop culture.
The Love Guru didn’t help too much. Try sitting through that movie and see how big of a sitar fan you are after that. Though I might chose this game over Sousaphone Hero.
This is actually a really decent playlist.
So, this is not an “official” list or anything. Which I guess makes it “unofficial.” But the extensive detail of the list, including playable musicians, leads me to believe that the detailed track list for Guitar Hero 5 will look something like the following:
The Clawhammer is actually designed to be a banjo pick, but why set limitations? A tool of this caliber can be used for such a variety of tasks that they are hardly worth mentioning. But I’ll mention them anyway.
The Clawhammer could easily be used for causing light scratches on your enemies, itching that one spot between your ass and your scrot, picking stringed instruments that aren’t banjos, pretending you’re a warlock… the list really goes on and on.
If you’re one of the lucky people who own a first-gen PS3 model (back when WiFi wasn’t standard and shit), your system has what’s called an Emotion Engine chip. Think of it as an extra heart for your PS3 that allows you to have a full Playstation 2 inside. Sony removed it a few years back to cut costs and now only a very limited number of titles are supported. To boot, Sony is also selling a lot of PSX games on the Playstation Network, so the incentive to add the EE back into the system is low.
But there is hope. According to a patent filing from last year (December, specifically), Sony is working on a way to compile and decompile the Emotion Engine. This will allow PS2 backwards-compatibility through software emulation, thus keeping us fanboys happier than ever.
Would you rather listen to Rush or Lady GaGa? Tough call.
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Good news! Walmart isn’t just for hicks and drug addicts anymore! Now gamers can actually get excited about their parents dragging them to everyone’s favorite discount retailer. 77 stores in the Northeast US have received these nifty trade-in kiosks. You trade in your games and the value is put on your credit card a few days later. I wonder if the prices are competitive enough to go against Gamestop. If anyone can shake the market up a little, its Walmart.
Have you used one of these? What was it like? Let us know.
