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*
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 doesn’t just put me off of the 360, it makes me wary of all high powered and high heat consoles. I really worry that something will happen to my PS3 as well which is a launch console just like my 360.
Xbox 360 defects: an inside history of Microsoft’s video game console woes » VentureBeat.
- 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, but have never been programmed in such a way that makes them run well on most machines. Blizzard on the other hand has always done a great job of writing amazing code, but that’s neither here nor there.
- iRacing.com: It’s a little unusual to do a subscription racing game, but with the Papyrus cred, I’m willing to give it a try. Some of the things I’ve read on rec.autos.simulators are indicative of non-pay services (asshats overdriving and causing incidents). I would have hoped a subscription service would get rid of those people.
- Madden 09: I’ve been wanting to play against my friend in LA but it’s been surprisingly difficult. Once you accept an invite it just says the game no longer exists. We think it’s a firewalling issue, which is retarded. Shouldn’t the damn thing just work? So we’ll be trying to debug that this weekend.
Oh yeah, last weekend we walked 8 miles out to the salt ponds of the bay. It was completely unplanned, just decided we’d go out the door and go for a walk. It was awesome. “There and back again…” as they say.