Just got of the phone with my local Game store. Apparently, somebody broke street date so Rock Band is now available generally. I’ll be picking it up on Thursday, unless I can get into the store earlier (there is no way I’m carrying all those instruments on the train from North Sydney!).
I’m thinking Fable 2 won’t get much of a look-in this weekend 
I just discovered that you can get downloadable content for Fable 2 by playing through a A Hero’s Tale, a little flash game on the official website. Guide a hero as he seeks vengeance for the slaying of his family. As you make choices, you will become eligible for some items, which will be delivered to your Xbox Live account.
Despite my earlier skepticism, I encouraged P to pick up Fable 2, as it’s probably the only Western RPG passing near the Xbox 360 any time soon. Even though I had just gotten around to getting a second-hand copy of Assassin’s Creed (more on that later), I sat through the intro and some exploration of the earlier parts of the game.
It looks wildly huge. Yes, it’s more constrained than Oblivion in some ways, but the character interactions are much richer, which is in some ways the Holy Grail of role-playing games (at least in my mind). Character interaction is measured on a number of different dimensions which interact to cause different reactions from NPCs. View full article »
For a long time now (several months at least), my Xbox 360 has had difficulty reading discs. Most of the time, it would ignore the game partition and go straight to the DVD-video partition, which meant I would get the ironic message telling me to insert the disc into an Xbox 360 to get it to play. Eventually, if I ejected and re-inserted the disc, it would play. View full article »
Over the weekend, I had the chance to sit down and evaluate my current gaming and to decide if it was time to get another game. Despite still having fun with Soul Calibur 4, I think I’ve achieved all I’m realistically going to (after all, I don’t have nobody‘s skill or dedication, so there’s no way in hell I’m going to reach 450,000 points in Arcade mode).
All the recent intellectual discussion on games as art, and gender politics in game design has got me hankering to play something new but kind of turned me off current offerings. I also blame Yahtzee. Nonetheless, let’s have a look out there and see if I can be convinced to part with my money on something. View full article »
