While I was on the phone with EA Customer Support last night ordering my second replacement guitar, the Customer Support rep gave me a very helpful piece of advice regarding replacement hardware:
By September 2008, they will no longer be honoring Rock Band 1 hardware extended warranties.
I don’t know if this was a known date, talked [...]

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There’s been tons of articles written ad-nauseum about how video-games do or do not impact people psychologically, most of them seemingly designed to reach a pre-determined point of view, backed up by extensive “research.”  I’m no scientist, so I’m only going to leave research in scare quotes and move on and leave the statistical debate [...]

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Oh, Kotaku, how I love it when you try and be intellectual.  To be fair, I love Leigh’s and Maggie’s think pieces (they’re the most intellectual editors they have), but Kotaku’s demo is just so overly fan-boy driven that their advertising (and commenters) tend to undercut any attempt at seriousness with a healthy dose of [...]

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Okay, fine, we will chalk this one up to pareidolia right off the bat, but I had to document this just to get it out of my system.  Consider this my group therapy session.  I show you what I see and you laugh in my face.
My wife likes having birds around the house to look [...]

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Here we go again.  A paper so out of touch with gaming and yet so full of opinions.  This time they’re trying to say that the core gamer backlash against Nintendo’s E3 announcements is nothing more than “nerd rage.”
Call it nerd rage. Like loyalists of a once-partisan politician who tacks toward the center later in [...]

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Maybe you’ve heard the news by now, if not, swing by Giz and check out the horrible awful bootleg for the teaser of TR2N that was shown at nerd prom earlier this week.
Normally, I’d be nonplussed about a TRON sequel (the TRON 2.0 game was a decent enough FPS, but a horrible shadow of what [...]

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To share this kind of stuff with you.  Still Alive as played by Mario Paint composer.
I don’t care if it’s old.  This is full circle gaming nerd-dom.

Aw hell, we can’t stop there! Zelda (and FF below the cut)!

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More general design nonsense tonight (it comes back to gaming eventually, stick with me here), but I was smiling walking out of seeing Wall-E thinking about the character designs for Wall-E and Eva. On the surface, they’re simple enough. One’s a boy. The other a girl. One’s old. One’s new. [...]

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Stop me if I’ve gone on about this before, but I’ve been wondering if user created content (specifically on consoles) is something that we really want to be courting as an industry, or even as gamers.
On the surface, yeah, this sounds like a very good thing.  I think mainly because we’re all operating from the [...]

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I just read that the Still Alive map pack (which evidently has been available free this whole time for PC) that is due to be released for Portal on the consoles is going to be missing the voice of GLaDOS.  I recall when I learned a map pack was coming being super excited for a [...]

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