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The High Price of Rocking

Remember when they announced that you would get a guitar, drums, mic and Rock Band for $179, it seemed like a reasonable price? Well it turns out we were getting an incredible deal.

EA recently announced that Rock Band would be coming out for the Xbox 360 only late this May (the 23rd) in Europe. So six months later and only on one console. That already kind of sucks. But now they’ve released pricing details, which are a joke. There’s the instrument edition, which comes with one guitar, one drum kit and a mic, which costs £130/€170. That’s right, there’s no game. To get the game, it’ll cost you £50/€70. For those of you that don’t understand European money, that means that to get the whole Rock Band experience, which I remind you cost us $170, we’ll cost them about $378. More than double what we payed.

A smaller price increase is expected, gaming is more expensive in Europe. But come on, this is ridiculous! For $378, I’d expect the entire DLC library on the disc. Do they get that? No. They do get a few extra songs:

Now we all know German music is perfect for Rock Band, but these are only 9 songs. I’m not sure how that will even work if you don’t speak French or German or English. Will they translate them? Anyway, those tracks will be available as DLC in the U.S. too, probably around the European release. Once again, it kicks ass to be American.

One Step Closer to the Edge

Okay, Sean and I can’t just do these posts everyday, I’m talking to you Tweelde Dumb and Tweedle Dee. Anyways, Hakeem Olajuwon and Patrick Ewing were inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. So let us all remember the greatness of 90s basketball. Especially Mr Ewing for his brilliant acting in Space Jam and for his pathetic stint here in Seattle, where he came to die. AS for “Hakeem The Dream” I’ll always remember his impressive grace as one of the best centers in basketball, especially when he stuffed that shit. I guess some other guys like coaches or something were inducted as well, but I couldn’t care less. Anyways let’s keep those blogs a coming, otherwise I’ll be pushed over the edge.

This One’s Real

Charlton Heston, outspoken former-president of the NRA and celebrated film star, passed away Saturday evening. He was 84. Read more on IMDb.

The timing of his death seems really strange to me, it seems like ever since John and I watched Get Shorty I’ve heard his name mentioned multiple times. Just a coincidence, I suppose.

I’m probably not the best guy to talk about Heston, I haven’t even seen Ben-Hur yet, but I’ll freely admit that while I didn’t care for his NRA work, I respect the Hell out of his film career. I mean with films like Planet of the Apes and Soylent Green how can you not like him?

So, sadly, another great Hollywood icon has passed on. But he leaves us behind a body of work that future generations will be able to look back on and enjoy. We’ll miss you, Chuck.

The End Begins and All That Jazz

It’s 11:30 and no one’s posted yet, so here we go.

Battlestar Galactica
S04E01 –“He That Believeth In Me”

*Warning: Seasons 1-3 Spoilers Abound*

It’s been more than a year since the last time we got a new episode of Battlestar Galactica, so there was a lot of pressure on this episode not to disappoint. And thankfully, it didn’t.

Picking up right where we left off, Starbuck has reappeared months after her apparent death. But her and Apollo’s reunion is cut short but the massive Cylon attack fleet. As the recently outed Tigh, Tyrol, Anders and, uh, Roslin’s Bobby-replacement lady, deal with the realities of being one their greatest enemy.

The episode continues with plenty of interesting developments, some predictable and other not so much. It ends on a cliffhanger and unfortunately, unlike last season, we’ll have to wait next week to find out what happens (but I can guess). This was a satisfying return for the show and I know anyone who’s been loyally following can’t wait to watch the remaining 19 episodes unfold.

What If The Cobra Is Eating The Cat?

The title pretty much sums up my thought process here. Ideally I’d make the sidebar the same height as this main section, but I can’t seem to figure out how to make that happen.

So what were your favorite April Fools’ pranks? For me it was Google linking me to this video. Good times. IGN had a fake Zelda movie trailer, but it didn’t do much for me. Blizzard, as usual, had several pranks posted, but I don’t know how funny they are to non-gamers. I know I found them amusing. There were a bunch of others that I suffered through, like YouTube turning all of its video links into Rick Rolls, but overall nothing else that exciting.

Did you guys get any good ones?

RIP Cliff Robertson

Actor Cliff Robertson died today in a tragic airplane accident. The Spider-Man 3 star was an avid fan of flying and owned several aircraft. He was flying his Messerschmitt Bf 108 when a gaggle of geese got in his path, causing him to swerve out of the way. Robertson then miraculously flew through a barn before crashing into a combine harvester, instantly killing him.

Robertson was recently famous for his portrayl of “Uncle” Ben Parker in all three Spider-Man films, but his career spanned six decades. He was in many films that you probably have not heard of, such as Star 80 and PT 109. He is on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and won a best actor Oscar for his role in Charly.

Robertson has no living family, and is instead survived by his legions of devoted fans who mostly think he really was Uncle Ben and have been waiting for him to die for years now.

Revamp

Tired of the stupid sidebar being broken, I am now hard at work on taking this template, that you see right now, and carefully modifying it to look more like the old design. Unless everyone really likes this, in which case I don’t have to do anything. Stay tuned.

Edit: OK, I think I’m pretty much done.