Everybody has little tricks they came up with to provide therapy when they’re having a long day. Well for a MSU fan, nothing cheers us up quite like watching UM losing games. Of course, the most satisfactory of these University of Michigan losses are the ones that all the sports broadcasters claim they should’ve won. If you don’t understand why this is such a big deal, then you didn’t grow up in the state of Michigan, where the only thing media talks about from late summer through to late fall is the talent and successfulness of their beloved Wolverines. Well for those of you who bleed green, here’s a quick way to cheer yourself up.
*Caution* — Wolverine fans proceed at your own risk, tears or heartbreak may result from reading the rest of this post
A lot has happened since June 11, 2007. I’ve been super busy with the usual attempts to balance work and home life. However, there’s been some super exciting things going on that I’ve failed to blog about!
Since I’ve been really bad about updating my blog in the last year (and I promise the drought is ending), I feel that it is much needed to update everybody on what I’ve been up to. Consider this my excuse list for why I’ve been such a bad blogger. Here’s a brief list of all the great things that have happened in my life since this time last year.
Read on to see the list! more »
Come one, come all. My band, Instance, has finally posted a couple of demo tracks on our MySpace page.
http://www.myspace.com/instancemusic
Featured are, the tracks Killing Floor and Lovin’ Cup.
We are a blues rock band based in Eugene, Oregon. We are currently working on booking shows and growing our repertoire of original tunes and rockin’ blues based covers.
Stay tuned for more information!
I wanted to get out to get my hands on a copy of Contra 4 for my DS. After all, that’s the reason I asked to get one (a DS) for my birthday. I’m a huge Contra fan!
Anyways, after seeing this picture of the line at GameStop from Naim’s Flickr stream, I’m glad I held off. Probably wouldn’t have any luck getting my hands on a copy anyways since I am not much of the “preordering” type.
For IndieGamesCon, some employees and community members of GarageGames took part in an Indie Jam Session. It involved lots of excellent beer and rock ‘n’ roll. I got the opportunity to rock out on all six songs on my guitar. A fun time was had by all. Check out the videos here:
Part One
Part Two
Note — the audio isn’t great by any means but you get the point!
Serious updates coming soon. Too busy working on code for InstantAction.com at the moment.
Image courtesy of TheOnion.com
It looks as though Activision has decided to go ahead and push the envelope with the sudden surge of musical games hitting the market. According to The Onion, they have released (and are reporting poor sales) for the Xbox360 title, Sousaphone Hero.
“In the wake of Guitar Hero’s success, we thought the public was more than ready for additional popular American musical genres in a simulated-performance format, but people don’t seem to be responding to marches as well as we had hoped,” said Activision spokeswoman Melissa Hendleman
The retail price appears to be a steep $345! But hey, you get an awesome 100 pound sousaphone to rock out on! The game also features on-screen crowd cheers and a career mode that pinnacles in a performance at the halftime show of the Harvard vs Yale football game.
Of course, in true “The Onion” fashion, this game doesn’t really exist… But if it did, I would be on my way to the store to get it ASAP. Sousaphone on!
I wanted to showcase this cool video that Derek put together months ago for the GamerIdentity.com campaign. Pretty cool!
What if there was a way for me to tell you the games that you would like, all based on the fact that you like this one game. And tell me, what would this one game be, that you happen to be looking at, that I would give you this list…
Great Games Experiment lets you create gamelists to easily show off your favorite games with a nifty little flash widget. What are your favorite games?
If you have one of these on your blog, be sure to share it in the comments here!
Also, be sure to check out the Gamelists Facebook Application that I recently developed.
These are my favorite games, what are yours?
