There has been a bit of a brouhaha lately with regards to guitar compatibility between Rock Band and Guitar Hero III on the PS3. As of now, you can’t use the Les Paul guitar that comes with Guitar Hero III when playing Rock Band (on the PS3). Why? It’s not like they’re very different — …
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Even When You Wrote the Operating System, You Still Have to Work Around Other Peoples’ Bugs
For all the grief that Microsoft has taken in the past about the bugginess (real or imagined) of Windows, they have definitely put in a huge amount of effort to try and erase that perception. Readers of Raymond Chen’s excellent The Old New Thing blog will no doubt be familiar with the many tales regarding …
Fixed: Size of the Moon
The gaming blog Rock, Paper, Shotgun recently ran an article mentioning the next project of the developers of the 2005 PC game Boiling Point. That upcoming game, however, is not the real focus of the article (nor of this one). There’s a bit of pointing and snickering at part of a bug fix list for …
True Names and the Fracturing of Identity
I saw a post on the always-amusing Coding Horror regarding the fracturing of online identities. A couple of early blogging pioneers are mentioned, along with the number of separate profiles or identities that they seem to have — in the range of 20-30. The question is, which one of these is “truly” them? The somewhat …
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High Fidelity (Part 3)
Yesterday I finally managed to redeem the Best Buy rain check for my free copy of Heroes Season 1 on HD-DVD. I originally got this rain check almost two months ago when I bought the HD-DVD add-on for the 360, and the boxed set hasn’t been in stock since then. Over the last couple of …
Big Game Hunter (Not Starcraft Related)
In furtherance of my recent Gamerscore binge, I decided to branch out a little bit and explore a new game genre for me — hunting games. I rented Cabela’s Big Game Hunter for the 360, and just got done getting all 1000 Gamerscore a little while ago. I have to say that I was fairly …
Gladiators, ARE YOU READY?!?!?!?!
One of the biggest guilty pleasures of my youth, American Gladiators, is being revived for 2008. This past Saturday, me and Sandy went to see a taping of the new show at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City. The hosts of the new show are Hulk Hogan and Laila Ali — pretty decent choices in …
Weekend Series Split
The Arsenal avenged a loss on Saturday to the Bakersfield Jam with a 119-109 win at home. Even though the box score doesn’t reflect it, I thought this game featured a fairly solid defensive effort from the Arsenal. Ivan Johnson had a monster game, with 27 points on 10-of-14 shooting, and some key steals and …
The King of Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
Continuing my Gamerscore binge, I rented Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie, another (mouthful of a) title that is somewhat infamous in the 360 world for being a relatively easy 1000 points. I picked it up last night, but didn’t get a chance to play it until today. With the help …
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Solving the Flash
The Arsenal finally managed to defeat the Utah Flash tonight, 99-91. While the Arsenal couldn’t stop James Lang (who scored 23 points, mostly down low), he drew his fourth and fifth fouls early in the fourth quarter, and sat down with about 8 minutes to go. (He later returned and fouled out.) The Arsenal stayed …