I was introduced to this game by my friend Tim; it’s a futuristic racer (similar to Wipeout) but the tracks are timed to any song you upload. The video above is Blur’s “Song Two”.
I am interested to see what my own songs would be like on this game, but unfortunately it’s a PC-only game. I do have Vista loaded on my Mac but I’ve never tried any games on it. Maybe this is the right time to give it a whirl.
Audiosurf is available for $10 via Steam.
This is a little eerie since I just posted about their new album the other day, but two-fourths of Death Cab for Cutie will be online tomorrow night playing COD4.
I’ve never done this “Game With Fame” thing, but if I was going to, tomorrow would be the time to do so. I’ve been a fan of the band for close to ten years now, and it would be pretty sweet to shoot them in the face. Even if it is just the bassist and drummer.
Tyler already made a post about Brad Neely back in November, but until last night I didn’t realize that he made comics as well as zany videos.
I highly recommend you take a half hour and take a look at all his comics. Here.
Two things:
While searching for a picture that accurately reflected Xbox 360 Achievements, I ran across this site that generates achievements for you (like the one you see above). Pretty sweet.
The other thing is that Joystiq is reporting that Game Informer is reporting that there is a rumor that Xbox 360 achievements will be transferred over to the next Xbox (720 or whatever it will be). I hadn’t thought that far ahead, but that makes sense, and I would like to not start over from scratch again, because I think that would fill me with an unmistakeable bitterness, knowing that years of hard “work” amounted to nothing. Well, it still amounts to nothing, but at least they aren’t going away anytime soon.
I’m leaving for California tomorrow today, and I don’t think I’ll be short of any in-flight entertainment. I’m carrying on my PSP with three fully charged batteries of different capacities; the remains of past Sony handhelds that have since departed us. I’m also bringing my R4-ed out DS, you know, for all my homebrew games. I’ll of course have my iPod with me, in case I’m craving some hardcore Peggle action. If for some reason I feel like reading (not likely), I’ll have the book After Dachau by my second favorite author Daniel Quinn, or I can choose from one of three different magazines I’m bringing. Variety is the spice of life.
I plan on playing Daxter throughout most of the flight, or at least until I hit the inevitible moment where I have absolutley no clue what to do and I need to consult a walkthrough. I also never finished Hotel Dusk on the DS, which I was really into for awhile. Maybe I’ll give that another go. At least if we crash into the ocean, I’ll die doing what I love most: alienating myself from the rest of the world. Love ya!
P.S. This also means that I probably won’t be posting for about a week. Now I’ll know how Tyler feels. Try and carry on without me.
TUAW.com posted a neat idea that I am probably too embarrassed to try myself.
A reader scanned all of his membership cards (Safeway, etc) and them put them into an iPhone photo gallery, and can pull them up on his iPhone at the store and they scan just fine, I guess. It’s really handy, because it gets rid of all those cards in your wallet.
But would you really want to be that guy at Safeway who’s like, “Oh, I don’t have a card, I scanned it into my iPhone…” though? Is it just me, or can you not say that sentence without sounding like an elitist douche?
I’m not going to go on a tirade about how the game is called GUITAR Hero; instead I will just post their drum kit model, which was revealed in the latest Game Informer magazine.
I think the yellow “cymbal” is out of position to work effectively as a high-hat. And if the foot pedal isn’t colored, how will it be implemented?
Your thoughts?
I really don’t get why World of Warcraft/WoW is still so popular. I am listening to the BBPS.com podcast right now (featuring friend of threevue, Nerfgun from Citizen Game), and they are talking about the life-sucking RPG. The game as we know it came out way back in November 2004, which in the age of modern gaming was about 1,000 years ago, but there are still no less 10 million WoWies carpal-tunneling their way across the fields of Azeroth every day.
I’m pretty sure none of us here at threevue have ever played it; I don’t like RPG’s, Russ doesn’t have the time, and Tyler’s computer came over on the Mayflower, so I’m not judging it, I just don’t see how it can still be so appealing to the gaming community.
I decided to forgo Tyler’s weekly recap and instead put today’s post; it’s the first time I’ve seen it and it’s a lot funnier than his weekly recap was.
Mark:
Watch closely because here comes the recap… if you aren’t paying attention, you might miss it: If TheJesusZombie plays 6 days every week, I guess I can call this a good deal. Many Xboxes have it a lot worse. We added 90 points of gamerscore. Good stuff! Who knew 7 achievements could be worth that much? Ok I knew that… Also, I think we can all agree that TheJesusZombie’s favorite game last week was GTA IV. He played it on 6 of the days.
And that is the news for now… Check back next week… same bat time, same bat channel…
Russ:
Another week, another recap… and you love me for it: In the beginning… there was nothing. In the end, well, there is nothing… and right in the middle of that… there was ABSOLUTELY nothing which made for a really, really, long week. Let’s all hope next week is better.
Tyler:
Bobby is that you? Wait… I don’t know a Bobby… WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME!!
I got a great game at an even better price today via Gamefly’s May used game sale. There are some pretty good deals on their site, but the best one, I thought, was Assassin’s Creed for $18.99. I also used my five Gamefly bucks that I got for my first three months of membership, bringing the total to the bargain basement price of $14.62!
It’s true, I already played through the game, but I’ve been craving some Templar-killing action lately, and maybe someday I’ll get all those damned flags. Plus, 14 bucks is small price to pay for such a great game, especially when compared to the $15 dollar price tag of the crap-fest Reservoir Dogs on the OGXbox.
I gave Death Cab for Cutie’s sixth (!) full-length a fair listen today for the first time. Overall, it has a lot more going on than their last album, Plans (which I didn’t like at all), but it definitely feels like a major-label release. Whereas early DCFC albums did so much with so little, this album feels like they had every resource in the world and just ended up running a bit dry.
Their opening track is a real winner, which hasn’t happened for me since their second album, so I’m thankful for that. Unfortunately, their closing track is especially weak, which is usually not the case with these guys. There are some tracks in between as well, and most are decent, although some are pretty unoriginal.
The lyrics are borderline embarrassing. Older DCFC albums were full of personal, provocative and memorable descriptive paintings, but this album’s lyrics seems a little forced. And fake.
Initial score: 54 out of 100
On Russ’ recommendation, I picked up Daxter on the PSP as the game that I’m going to try to play all the way through on my trip. I got it used at Gamestop for about 9 bucks, which seems like a pretty good deal. Even though I’ve never played a game in the Jak & Daxter series, I’m looking forward to this one; it got good reviews, and was made by Ready At Dawn studios, the geniuses that gave the world God of War: Chains of Olympus.
Between the six-plus hour flights both ways, and the hours that I am bound to spend driving up and down the California coast, I think I should definitely be able to finish the game. I’m not sure how long it is, but most PSP games are relatively short. It’s just too bad I won’t be back in time to do the ol’ Gamestop shuffle. Continue reading ‘Portable Platforming in a Plane Over the Pacific (and some potential penguin penetration)’
So, today I received a brand-spanking new Xbox 360 Elite in the mail, compliments of the Red Ring of Death.
I only had a few minutes between work and class, but I fired up GTAIV for the first time just to have a look. I had just enough time to jump into a car, drive it two blocks until I saw a pedestrian, jump out of my car and beat him to a pulp, and then get stabbed to death by the next guy I tried to wrassle. That’s about it.
But I’m back from class now and I’m about to dive into Liberty City. I’ll probably be nicer to strangers this time around, though.
Rather than talk about this film, which was pretty much Apocalypto minus a water-birth scene, I’m going to point out my favorite inaccuracies. Caution, if you haven’t seen the movie, you’re probably going to read a few spoilers.
So, tomorrow marks the day that I will be getting my Xbox 360 back from the grave/Microsoft, only 40 days after it started wigging out on me. I could make some sort of Jesus and his 40 days in the desert reference here, but I get enough comparisons already.
Now what am I going to do first? Probably play a bit of GTA4, since I haven’t even seen it in action yet. Maybe some COD4. I’ve also had a hankering for The Orange Box, too. Man, so much to choose from!
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