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Archive for February, 2007


GameStop and MLG Help Wounded Soldiers

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Injured Soldiers recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center enjoyed an evening of video game competition yesterday at a gaming tournament organized by Cause, a nonprofit organization that provides comfort items to and organizes recreation events for wounded Soldiers.

GameStop, the world’s largest videogame retailer, donated 10 of the highly coveted Nintendo Wiis to Cause during the event and Major League Gaming (MLG), the world’s first professional video game league, provided technical assistance and sent personnel and their top professional gamers to help Cause run the tournament. Read the rest of this entry »

Video Games Linked to Murder

It’s so annoying when the media blames violent video games for the existence of violent people, but it’s happening again with the Milwaukee murder of forty-nine-year-old Rex Baum. Andrew Ihrcke, who started off by punching and kicking Baum and ended by smearing his own feces across Baum’s face before knifing him, told police that killing “the bum” reminded him of playing a violent video game, a police report shows. I don’t know about you, but I can’t think of a single game I’ve played that involves feces. Anyway, the media went nuts over the quote but didn’t do much investigation on Ihrcke who was one lost seventeen-year-old.

My friend David pointed out this post on Penny Arcade’s blog where Ihrcke’s stepmother submitted an open letter explaining that there was far more behind the murder than video games. Take a few minutes to read it. Quite interesting.

The Fanboyz – Smoke the Wii

Brilliant.

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From YouTube: “The FanBoiz are waving their Wii’s across the globe with their first single from their chart topping debut album “The Other Castle”. Straight out of Boston, these guys know nothing but the streets…as well as those of Hyrule and the Mushroom Kingdom. Check it out & keep it real. [razmig.net]

Guitar Hero II for PS2 and 360


RAWK

Have you already mastered all of the tracks in Guitar Hero I? Guitar Hero II is scheduled for a 4/3/07 release – so dust off those leather pants, find your snake skin boots and get ready for your encore. The PS2 and Xbox 360 versions will feature the same 64 core songs, but 360 owners will also be able to download 10 exclusive tracks through the marketplace.

With the exception of “Stop!”, “John the Fisherman” and the 24 unlockable bonus songs (which are original artist performances) all songs in the game are covers. I recently got a MySpace friend request from Scott Dugdale who played keyboards, drums and did programming for both games. So far, the cover songs are getting rave reviews, so check out his MySpace page and show him some love for helping us all feel like rock stars.

Calendar

In the Media

Gamertag Radio
Interview
—September 2008

Game Heroes
Video podcast appearance
—June 2008

Sweet Flag
Interview
—May 2008

Attack of the Show
“The Loop” panelist
—November 2007

CrotchMail.com
Interview
—June 2007

TiedTheLeader.com
Interview
—April 2007