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    Which song would you want in Guitar Hero / Rock Band?

    Just looking at the last two pages, the following requested songs are ALREADY AVAILABLE in Rock Band. I don't know everything in GH, but we won't count that until they make a decent vocals system. It's not a real party game unless all four people playing can have fun. Rush - Red Barchetta...
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    Poll: Guitar Hero: World Tour or Rock Band 2?

    Rock Band. This just happened: http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1505465
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    Jack Thompson Given Freedom Award

    Okay, wow. Wow. The irony has already been restated enough times, but seriously, do these people even know how incredibly self-defeating they're being? Should we tell them, or is it like telling a cokehead that the spiders aren't real where it's safer to nod while dialing 911 when they're not...
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    Zero Punctuation: Webcomics

    I read a lot of webcomics, and even though I've read through ctrl-alt-del I'm still hesitant to call myself a fan. It was never quite bad enough for me to stop reading, but it has never made me want to be sure to check the site at the exact second it updates either. I'm glad he's trying to...
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    X-Play Displays Rock Band 2 Tracks

    Rock Band came out last november. I'd say a yearly release is reasonable on a game that requires (comparitively) no work on graphics, in-game engine, or story. Add in a couple of extra features like Bass tour, stick in a few extra songs, and release the same game again. Since the DLC works...
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    Smile and Nod: Is it Too Loud, or Am I Too Old?

    ----(think Chuck Barry, Beatles, ELO, Hall & Oates, New Wave 80's stuff, B-52s, The Cars, some pop-metal like Bon Jovi, etc.) The Beatles are insane and expensive, but they're in talks. As for New Wave, the Police have five songs for DLC, and we're getting a Devo pack. The B-52s have a song...
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    What games are honestly not worth it?

    I loved bioshock, but anything that has no appeal after six hours shouldn't cost sixty dollars. I'm fine with games with no multiplayer as long as the singleplayer is done well, and bioshock was superb, but it still just never had quite enough length or depth of gameplay to make me feel like...
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    Do you think i'm being selfish?

    You are normal. Kids are scary, and the thought of being indirectly responsible for every mistake another human being will ever make is scary. They also spend most of their first two years getting some sort of liquid or semi-liquid on you. The fact that getting liquid on you for two years, then...
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    Game Design Sketchbook: Immortality

    Interesting. But what is beyond the stars? I've gotten as high as the other guy and I'm kinda curious if the sky turns all the way black, or every thousand blocks we get a picture of boobies or what. No seriously, it is an interesting concept game. No point, just as there is no point to...
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    What's the world's "strangest" game?

    Space Station Silicon Valley. You play as a tiny robot chip thing that survives by hijacking all the robot animals in the space station, including bears, wheeled mice, floating sheep, and missile shooting wheeled dog, and using them to do puzzles. This team later developed the same game...
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    The Army (Specifically the Canadian Forces)

    My dad joined the military in the early 1980s, just after my sister was born. His recruiter convinced him to ignore his degree and go in as a grunt, and he spent the next few years moving between Missouri, Germany, and Korea. My mom and older sister followed him, but they weren't always in the...
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    Ken Levine Lists Six Favorite Games

    Why do we not have Beyond Good and Evil 2 yet? That was a freaking amazing game. Lots of stealth, fun combat, a hovercraft, a decent plot, taking pictures of animals for some reason . . . it had everything.
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    Why are the Beatles so Popular?

    The Beatles are not a boy band. Boy bands don't write their own music, play instruments, or really do anything except look good to preteen girls and dance in unison. The Beatles wrote music that's still being copied 40 years later, and even their solo careers had incredible hits. Imagine? Live...
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    The worst game you have ever played.

    Soul Fighter for dreamcast. I bought a dreamcast used off ebay in 2004 for like $25, but hadn't gotten any games yet. None of the gamestops carried DC games anymore, so I swung by one of those other shops that's since been swallowed by the retail behemoth to get a closer look at the one row...