Archive for September, 2008
Rockband and Guitar Hero play nice together.
It pleases me more than you could imagine that Rockband for PS3 now supports Guitar Hero 3 guitars. Activision, the Guitar Hero publisher had been blocking this patch for 9 months. I don’t know what happened, but finally all is well. *clickity clack*
Posted: September 11th, 2008 under games.
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Xbox 360 defects: an inside history of Microsoft’s video game console woes » VentureBeat
Dean Takahashi has written the definitive article on the Xbox 360 RROD issue. Although I’m not quite sure it will go down as a “one of the greatest snafus in consumer electronics”, but it certainly does suck. As someone who has fixed this problem several times I truly believe their design was flawed. However it [...]
Posted: September 6th, 2008 under games.
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Weekend plans
- Belgium Prix is on Sunday, and I’m hoping for a strong McLaren showing. Rain seems likely so that should make the race really unpredictable.
- Spore: it’s finally launching on Sunday. I worry that my slightly old PC won’t be up to the task of running it well. Will Wright’s games have always been creative, [...]
Posted: September 5th, 2008 under Autos, games, out of doughnuts ramblings.
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