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Guitar Hero: If making an Aerosmith game wasn’t enough

April 08, 2008 By: BC Category: Guitar Heo, brian carl, video games 4 Comments →

  • Do you want to be in the next Guitar Hero game???
  • Do you like to quote unquote Rock out with your cock out?
  • Do you like looking like an idiot on youTube?
  • Do you still live in your parents basement apparently in England?

Well now you can!
Seriously enough of the terrible Guitar Hero promotions. It seems anyone who wants to throw together a promotion these days goes, “hey what the hell, lets just get a copy of Guitar Hero and let people play it”

This is not a promotion, it’s is a video game. It worked for a while, but you can’t go anywhere without seeing this now. I see it at least once a week. The ones the drive me the craziest is when they do it at the mall. At any given mall you can play Guitar Hero at a minimum of 2 stores. Why should I stand in center court and play when I can go somewhere else and there will be less of a line.

Ehh forget it I am going home to play. See you later it’s time to Rock out with my….

Xbox price Cuts

March 11, 2008 By: BC Category: 360, Uno, Xbox 360, Xbox Live, brian carl, video games, xbox 6 Comments →

MCV from the UK reports that Microsoft has cut the price of its Xbox 360’s. This is a pretty big deal since one of the allures of the Wii is that its the value system. I know it has way more than that, but price always comes into play. According to ripten the price is lower than the Wii (“Amazon.co.uk can now confirm the new UK prices. The Xbox 360 Arcade will drop from £199.99 to £159.99 (cheaper than the Nintendo Wii no less…”)

They both have their ups and down, but I am not going into that now. I am just hoping that this happens soon in America. I can really use an XBOX 360 to play some Golden Eye online. Or maybe even some UNO