January 2008 Entries
In a previous post, I mentioned that all of us looking to get the real copy of Guitar Hero III will have to live without any GH action while the disc is being exchanged. Activision will have all of us mail in our broken copies in order to get the fixed one, leaving us out in the cold while the replacement comes. Until now.
I just discovered Frets On Fire, the free, open source equivalent for Windows/Linux/Mac. Sure it doesn't look as great as Guitar Hero, but the good news is that you can download obtain the Guitar Hero III...
Guitar Hero III has indisputably been a smash hit on all three of the major game consoles, but one glaring mistake has tainted the Wii release of the acclaimed music game.
Apparently, Activision decided to ship the game with mono sound, not the advertised Dolby Pro Logic. How could they not have known??? Not that the game is any less fun, it just doesn't sound as good. Activision had admitted to the problem, but it wasn't until last month that they announced that a replacement disc would be in the works sometime 'early 2008'. What? A replacement...
My Apple keyboard that I bought last August was having some problem with the space bar. It was starting to stick, so I'd have problems getting space in when typing. I called the Apple Store up at about 10:50am to see if I could bring it in for them to look at and they said that their only slot available at the 'Genius Bar' was for 11. I hadn't showered or anything yet, but I flew out the door to try and get down there in less than ten minutes.
As I was walking in the parking lot I had a...