After months of anticipation, Guitar Hero 3 is days away from release. I’m so excited about getting my hands on the wireless guitar and new tracks. If you’re looking for major innovations with this new release, don’t hold your breath this game will no doubt continue a very successful formula. There are some tweaks to the head to head mode, and the promise of tons of down loadable content. Fans of the series will definitely want to pick this up.
With a new publisher, and a rocking new set list, GH3 is gearing up to go head to head with the new kid on the block, Rock Band. Where Rock Band has all the fancy new peripherals (drum kit and mic), Guitar Hero has the polished game play. It will be interesting to see who wins the battle for holiday sales. Its hard to imagine what might have been Red Octane and Harmonix had not split ways.
This weekend after the UFC event, Chris showed us the Robot Chicken Star Wars Special. The stop animation show on Adult Swim compiled a 30-minute special featuring the best of their Star Wars related clips. One of my favorite parts was a short commercial for Admiral Ackbar’s cereal that only the most die hard of Star Wars geeks will understand. While on the topic of Robot Chicken, this is a pretty funny clip about Iron Man walking on non-carpeted surfaces.
The Robot Chicken clips keep rolling in, Matt2 send me this funny spoof of 300 entitled 1776. While on the topic of 300 spoofs, check out the PG version of 300. This is delicious!
Andrew “Hosscat” Reiter, who recently announced he’s going to be a father, is hosting this year’s Lan Party. He put up a informational page on his website.
After listening to Angry Steve rant about how stupid the trailer for Knocked Up looked for several weeks, I took great joy in watching him enjoy the movie Friday night. The film actually wasn’t that bad. Judd Apatow’s signature comedy made for several laugh out loud moments and even though it was definitely a chick flick, I have to agree with KG & Melissa and say it was a good movie. It was a veritable who’s who of actors who’ve been in previous Apatow movies (40 Year Old Virgin, Anchorman), and tv shows (Freaks & Geeks, Undeclared). For someone like me who’s seen everything he’s ever done, I really enjoyed seeing these familiar faces.
I’ve been playing a lot of Team Fortress 2 and Half-Life 2 lately. If you’re interested in joining my team, you can find my profile here. Add me as a friend and you can play along with me, Matt2, Hosscat, and Joe.
A great article on the UFC website on Brock Lesnar’s road to The Octagon. Brock was the 2000 NCAA wrestling champion going 106-5 in his four years of college. After college he signed a huge contract with the WWE which made him a household name. Now he’s back to legitimate competition, building on his natural wrestling abilities, learning jiu-jitsu and boxing leading up to his second mixed martial arts fight.
Update: Looks like Rock Band is coming out early! Rethinking a Black Friday release, Harmonix has decided to put Rock Band on sale November 20th, three days earlier and right before Thanksgiving. Guess I know what I’ll be doing to work off the turkey!
I didn’t even think Knocked Up was a chick flick. When you have guys building a celeb “porn” site and visiting strip clubs, its hard to see as a chick flick. Katie and I enjoyed it, though. There were a few shots in that movie I could definitely have done without.