How can Guitar Hero compete with Rock Band given Rock Band’s got early drumming and vocal adopters? By promising awesome content and enforcing that fact that they too, have downloadable content (DLC). Not only do they have DLC, but they’ll have DLC on launch day. Of course, they could have tossed some fluffy songs out […]
Entries from October 2008
Guitar Hero World Tour Day One DLC
October 9th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Accessories · Activision · DLC · Guitar Hero
Sony Should Buy Ubisoft and Here is Why
October 9th, 2008 · No Comments
Sony’s been putting a lot of effort (read: money) into the PlayStation 3 product line with very little impact in the market. They’ve got this “10 year plan” but haven’t really executed a strong plan for their first two years of said plan. Sony’s plan seems to be “outlive the competition’s technology” while all of […]
Tags: Editorial · playstation 3 · Sony · ubisoft
Michael Pachter Says Wii HD Will Launch
October 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter is “absolutely convinced” we’ll see a Nintendo Wii HD by 2011. What makes him so sure? In short, Nintendo will start to look bad if their console is said to be “for your mom” instead of for gamers. What they’ve done, so far, is show the industry there is […]
Tags: Industry News · Nintendo · Wii
TD Gaming Podcast 91: Freedom of Speech
October 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments
This weeks gaming podcast covers a bunch of great topics including a gaming flashback of Populous. We’re going to give your our down and dirty Mega Man 9 review from an older gamers perspective and cover some game news, including: Gears of War 2 stays off PC to avoid piracy Nintendo DSi details and features […]
Tags: Episode · Podcast · Show Notes
Guitar Hero World Tour Bundle Mayhem
October 7th, 2008 · No Comments
You’re looking to pickup a copy of Guitar Hero World Tour, but you’re currently unsure which bundle does what and how much each will cost. That has now been made clear and gamers can go about their holiday shopping business later this month (Oct. 26th) to pickup the bundle of their choosing. USD $190 for […]
Tags: Accessories · Activision · Guitar Hero · Industry News · playstation 3 · Wii · Xbox 360
The Calm Before The Storm, Why No News?
October 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Journalists and bloggers around the Net are doing whatever they can to scrape up news on the gaming industry. What’s the deal, it’s a Monday and nobody in the gaming industry has anything really big to announce, talk about or “leak” onto this here Interwebs? Sure, we can read about a 7 year old’s request […]
Tags: Editorial · Holiday · Industry News
DSi Will Be Region-Locked, Sad Face…
October 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment
One of the greatest things Nintendo has done was allowing the DS to be unlocked for regions. This allowed gamers around the world to share their favorite games from all cultures and countries with just a click of the “buy” button at an online store. The DSi loses this great freedom by locking it down […]
Tags: DSi · Editorial · Industry News · Nintendo · piracy
Mega Man 9: Initial Impressions (Xbox 360)
October 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments
With a few hours of Mega Man 9 under my belt I’ve got to admit, this game is FREAKING HARD. I’ve played many games since the original Mega Man series was released on the NES and later on the SNES and nothing compares to Mega Man 9 in terms of sheer difficulty. This new franchise […]
Tags: Editorial · Platformer · Retro · review · Sequels · Xbox 360
DSi To Supplement Nintendo DS In The US
October 4th, 2008 · No Comments
Unlike Japan, Nintendo has not invaded the entire home consumer market here in the United States. This leads them to believe there is room for both the DS and the DSi here in the United States. The DS will no doubt be a cheaper alternative to the DSi and the DSi isn’t going to make […]
Tags: DS · DSi · Industry News · Nintendo
Rock Band 2 DLC For Wii
October 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
Although it’s cute to say, the truth of the matter is this: Rock Band 2 for the Wii has DLC. We’re talking full online downloadable content matching the behavior of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Why is this significant? The Wii has been the bastard child of rhythm music playing since its inception. If […]