Gaming
Planet Slayer- Helping Us Go Green
If you’re not sure how big your carbon footprint is (just look at the size of your Con Ed bill for July) or you’re not sure if you should give up meat to ease up the burden on our environment (just read today’s Times), then you can always count on Australian schoolkids to help you make your decision. A bunch of ingenious folks from Oz have devised a game, aptly named Planet Slayer, that would make an insurance adjuster blush: calculate when you “should” expire if you really want to help out humanity. I know, you’re an awesome foozball player and have too many Facebook friends to just die, but some people think you’re just a drain on precious resources, so give it a spin!
iPhone 2.0 In The Eyes Of Mikel
So by now I’m sure all of you techies know that the new iPhone’s release date was announced yesterday (accompanied by a hefty rise in Apple stock). iPhone 2.0 is slimmer and consists of a phone, mp3 player, camera, and internet, with the cheapest ringing in at $199 (meaning iPhone-spotting will increase 10fold in the coming months). Given the economy’s flaccid state, the unveiling of new (or slightly improved) luxury items seems sillier than usual, and I can’t help but wonder how Apple has escaped the mass corporate taint of Walmart or Microsoft.
Lonely NYU Student Is Virtually Brilliant
[Image via Boing Boing]
Those wacky urban college kids with their energy drinks and mumblecore and new-fangled mePods. It’s enough to make any twenty-something yearn for the simple pleasures of mopey, fumbling dorm room spooning. The solution is upon us: Virtual Girlfriend. Now with less backtalk and more silent disdain for your Wii compulsion!
Rock Band
Our future kids will be bombarding us with questions on what 2008 was like. We will most likely mention the big recession, the Giants finally making it to the superbowl, and the death of our national treasure, Britney Spears. Oh and one thing we sure as hell are not going to be leaving out?! Rock Band. Anyone that’s never played Guitar Hero or the line’s most recent extension off of that genius creation, Rock Band, is completely missing out. So, for the few of you out there that have no idea what the real life version of the game entails, we are here to inform. It consists of the utmost in concentration, deliberation, and rock-n-roll fluctuations. Steve Jobs may be the god of all things technical, but he sure missed the boat on this one. Those iPods have nothing on Rock Band.
This weekend we had the chance to catch a real live rock band team at work. Please note that this was their practice session for their real trial which will be taking place at a future date against the kids across the hall (they are open to suggestions for band names). Notice the focus and unaltered absorption levels. The hands, the faces….the determination. We are routing for you guys, keep us posted on the finale.
Pwning Noobs on a Saturday Night
Its 11pm EST on Saturday night, and there are currently 700,000+ people playing Halo 3 across the country. I begin to play with two of my friends when a third chimes in… More »
Guitar Hero III or Rock Band?
[Source: NYTimes]
This holiday season we aren’t too concerned with who the GOP or Democratic front-runners are (Hillary or Obama? Rudy or Mitt?), or if/when the lights will be turned back on Broadway, or which game system will sell more (X-Box 360 or Playstation 3). Nope, we are much more interested in the rivalry between Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and MTV’s Rock Band. Which game is going to win out? It seems like Guitar Hero has the advantage, being the 3rd game in its series, and it being featured on Gossip Girl which is a major plus for us.
We are also kinda annoyed and tired of MTV. The VMA’s suck, there are no music videos, and their reality shows are stale (A shot at Love with Tela Tequila, are you joking?!) to name a few things….(Run’s House is pretty funny though). For these reasons (and a host of others) we aren’t super pumped to buy one of their game titles.
But all this guitar game talk got us thinking. So remember when you saw all those poor bastards who wasted days waiting for Black Friday sales, and you thought to yourself, “well at least think of the several hundreds of dollars they saved?” And then immediately after you thought to yourself, “think of all the hundreds of dollars they would have saved if they didn’t buy that crap in the first place?” Well having now witnessed people playing wasting hours and hours learning how become a guitar game master, we can’t help but ask ourselves “imagine if you just bought a guitar and instead of playing a game, learned that actual instrument!?”
[NYTimes]